SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Teaching/Scholarship | |
| Encourage and support kinesiology graduate faculty teaching and scholarly productivity. Associated Goals: Faculty Excellence |
| Indicator | Faculty Productivity All members of the graduate kinesiology faculty are professionally active and engaged in teaching, research, and publishing. |
| Criteria | Faculty Performance Provide sufficient funds and resources to support the kinesiology graduate faculty with teaching, conference presentations, and research publications. All graduate faculty will have a minimum of one published article, one professional conference presentation, and a teaching score at or above the national average (IDEA) for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Finding | Accomplishments Target was met. Kinesiology graduate faculty teaching scores were at or exceeded the national average. All faculty members had a minimum of one peer reviewed article published or a book chapter. The kinesiology faculty members had an average of two professional presentations during the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Action | Teaching/Scholarship Provide adequate funds and resources to support graduate faculty teaching, conference presentations, and research publications. |
| Objective | Written Exam | |
| All students are required to pass a comprehensive written examination covering all course work, exclusive of the thesis, if applicable. Associated Goals: Quality And Effectiveness |
| Indicator | Comprehensive Exam MED Kinesiology students will be prepared to successfully pass the comprehensive exam at the conclusion of the MED Kinesiology program. |
| Criteria | Exam Results 100% of MED Kinesiology grad students will pass the comprehensive exam. |
| Finding | Exam Mastery 100% of MED Kinesiology students passed the comprehensive exam during the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Action | Written Exam Graduate faculty will continue to study questions and have review sessions for graduate students preparing to take the written comprehensive examination. |
| Objective | Collaboration | |
| Kinesiology graduate faculty will build multi-level collaborative partnerships in an effort to increase visibility and awareness of the kinesiology graduate program. Associated Goals: Visibility And Impact |
| Indicator | Partnership Development Kinesiology graduate faculty will attend at least five events during the 2007-2008 academic year for the purposes of recruiting graduate students and promoting the Kinesiology graduate program. |
| Criteria | Recruitment Kinesiology graduate faculty attended thirteen recruitment events during the 2007-2008 academic year. As a result of this visibility, eight new students have been admitted into the Kinesiology graduate program. |
| Finding | Recruitment Benefits The Kinesiology graduate faculty members were successful in their efforts with recruiting new students into the program. This will be an ongoing process. 8 new students were admitted during the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Action | Partnership Expansion Kinesiology graduate faculty will continue to increase the visibility of the program by building multi-level collaborative partnerships and active recruitment initiatives. |