AAPT maintains a list of individuals qualified and available to visit and evaluate departments.
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Dr. George Spagna
Physics Department
Randolph-Macon College
P.O. Box 5005
Ashland, VA 23005-5505
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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of LaMontagne, Bob
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:21 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: [Phys-l] Physics Program Reviews
This is basically addressed to those of you teaching in a college level physics program.
Have any of you had an outside agency or group of individuals come in and review your physics degree program. Did you use a group or agency that specialized in this service or did you just invite coleagues from another college or university?
We are being asked by our administration to review our program. We have been supplied very little in terms of guidance - the model the administration is using appears to be targeted at administrative departments instead of academic ones.
Since we have to do this, we would like to get the most value possible from the process. I would appreciate any recounting of experiences people have had with such reviews.