The prioritization of administrative programs was developed with the goals of engaging stakeholders and providing an objective and transparent process. A six-member steering committee was formed to develop the framework, process, and timeline for the administrative program prioritization, meeting regularly throughout the late fall and early spring. Unlike academic programs, the measures for evaluating and prioritizing the administrative programs are not centrally available and as a result, each program was asked to complete and submit a self-study form for review and scoring by the Administrative Prioritization Task Force.
There are 61 administrative programs that were a part of the prioritization project. These programs were reviewed and scored by a task force made up of 77 faculty, staff and students from the schools, colleges and administrative departments. Scoring was based on six weighted criteria:
- Importance to the University of Colorado Boulder (25%)
- Internal demand (15%)
- External demand (10%)
- Cost effectiveness and efficiency (20%)
- Quality (20%)
- Opportunity analysis (10%).
These criteria were addressed in the self-study completed for each program. The scores for the 6 criteria were used to generate a final, ‘Summary Score.’ Multiple individuals were employed to create a panel of Raters for each program; each Rater evaluated the program they were assigned independently of the other Raters on that program panel. The median of the Summary Scores generated for each program by the panel was used to rank the program and place it within one of five prioritization categories:
- Candidate for enrichment
- Consider for enhancement
- Maintain
- Transform
- Further review