Program Review
Program Review is an important part of the ongoing planning process at Porterville College. Each campus department, both instructional and support-related, conducts a program review at least every three years or whenever a budget is being requested and the reviews are evaluated by the College Learning Council. The Program Review information page provides information useful to departments in conducting their reviews.
There are three sections of information below. The first lists documents useful in conducting program review. These include the documents describing our program review process and the forms we use as well as the division and program outline, which shows how each of our courses fits into an academic division. Next come program review data files. These are both used by instructional programs as measures of progress and as an overview of the students they serve. (Other data may be provided upon request by the Office of Institutional Research. Please contact us with as much advance notice as possible). Finally, at the bottom of this page, you will find a list of completed program review documents.
Important Documents
Porterville College Program Review FAQ This document describes the program review process used by Porterville College.
Program Review Forms This is a Microsoft Word document that is to be used by all departments to complete their program reviews. Just download this document, fill out the form using the instructions provided, save it and bring copies to the College Learning Council (CLC) for approval. Once approved by the CLC, completed program review forms should be emailed as an attachment in Word form to the Director of Institutional Research. Completed reviews will be posted on this site below.
Program Review Sample Forms This document is a sample set of completed program review forms for a fictional department. This can be used as an example for programs completing their reviews.
Division and Program Outline This document describes how Porterville College academic divisions and programs are organized. The data presented in the Excel files below are organized according to this outline.
Program Review Data
Data commonly used by academic divisions and departments for program review include the number of sections offered, census enrollment, FTES, Full-Time Equivalent Faculty (FTEF), productivity (FTES/FTEF), and course retention and success rates. Each of these are provided in the files below. Divisions will most likely want to look most closely at the file that includes complete data for their division with department detail included. A division restructuring took place prior to the 2007-08 academic year, so the file below contains data for only that year. Data for the previous three years is also provided in the following three files.
2003-04 to 2006-07 data
College-wide program review data
Division/Department program review data
Program Review Reports
The program review process at Porterville College was modified in Spring 2006. Each campus area completed a program review during that term. Revisions are expected every three years or sooner if a change in personnel or budget requests make an update necessary. The term in which a program review was completed is listed with each below.
| Instructional Divisions | Non-Instructional Deparments | |
| Applied Technology (Spr 06) | Admisions & Records (Spr 07) | Financial Aid (Spr 06) |
| Business Education (Spr 06) | Athletics*** (Spr 06) | Graphics Center (Spr 06) |
| Education and Career Development (Spr 06) | Auxiliary Services (Spr 06) | Human Resources (Spr 06) |
| Fine Arts* (Spr 08) | Business Office (Spr 06) | Information Technology (Spr 06) |
| Health Careers (Spr 06) | CalWORKs (Spr 06) | Institutional Research (Spr 06) |
| Language Arts (Spr 06) | Child Care Center (Spr 06) | Learning Center (Spr 07) |
| Music* (Spr 06) | Counseling (Spr 06) | Library/Media Center (Spr 08) |
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics (Spr 06) | Dean Bennett (Spr 06) | Maintenance & Operations (Spr 06) |
| Physical Education & Athletics (Sum 07) | Dean Ecung (Spr 06) | Matriculation (Spr 06) |
| Social Sciences** (Spr 06) | Disability Resource Center (Spr 06) | President's Office (Spr 06) |
| Speech/Drama (Spr 06) | Distance Education (Spr 06) | Transfer Center (Spr 06) |
| EOP&S (Spr 06) | Vice President's Office (Spr 06) | |
*The Fine and Applied Arts Division did not complete a program review as a division for spring 2006. Instead, we have separate program reviews for their areas separately, fine arts, music and speech/drama.
**The Social Sciences division is divided into several departments. They chose to approach the process by having each department complete its own review. The file you see here is a compilation of the separate program reviews for Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, with an overall review as introduction. So far, Human Services and Psychology have not yet completed their reviews and Geography and Social Science are not currently being offered.
***The Athletics program review is for extracurricular athletics programs, not the Physical Education & Athletics division, which has its own program review under the instructional side. This review also uses the format of the California Community College Commission on Athletics, rather than the PC program review forms. This format includes several pages and forms that had to be inserted into the document and are thus not included in the PDF file provided here. Hard copies of the complete document are available from the President's Office, the Office of Instruction, or the Athletic Director.