SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Enrollemnt | |
| Using various recruitment stategies enrollment will increase. Associated Goals: Enrollment |
| Indicator | Enrollment Increased number of applicants. |
| Criteria | Enrollment 100% increase in student enrollment. |
| Finding | Enrollment Two new students were enrolled in 2006-2007 which was the same as the previous year. |
| Action | Enrollment Recruitment plan is being revised. |
| Objective | Foundational Competency | |
| Students demonstrate competency in the areas of general psychology through synthesis and integration of scientific, methodological, and theoretical foundations. Associated Goals: Foundation Competence |
| Indicator | Comprehensive Exams Students demonstrate through a written comprehensive examination their ability to integrate the areas of general psychology. |
| Criteria | Pass Comprehensive Examination 100% of students must pass comprehensive examination prior to graduation. |
| Finding | Comprehensive Examination The General Program is our smallest program. Three students took the exam during the 2006-2007 year. Only 33% passed the exam. |
| Action | Comprehensive Exams Faculty and student discussions led to modification of student preparation by providing an additional required course, Graduate Seminar in General Psychology which covers the breath of academic psychology: the areas of learning, social/developmemntal/personality, statistics, and physiological psychology. |
| Objective | Research Competency | |
| Students demonstrate competency in research methodology and statistical analyses. Associated Goals: Research Competence |
| Indicator | Research Competency Students produce original research. |
| Criteria | Research Competency Of those students completing the program, they will either complete a thesis or enroll in PSY 588, Experimental Design. |
| Finding | Research Comptency Only one student completed the General Program during the 2006-2007 school year, and that student completed a thesis. |
| Action | Research Competency Encourage more students to produce theses and require all students to take PSY 588, Experimental Design. |