WASC SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
WEDNESDAY
11:00 am to 12:30 pm Campus tour
1:00 to 2:15 pm
Team lunch (private)
2:30 to 3:30 pm
Meet with Chemers, Delaney
3:30 to 4:45 pm
5:00 to 6:30 pm
7:00 pm
Introductory overview &
update sessions
WASC team
WASC team
WASC team
Update on progress on
institutional measures of
graduate program success
Update on surveys of
undergraduate student
engagement & program for
future institutional research
Student Affairs
Overview of Baskin School of
Engineering
Reception
Senate dinner
González, Lewis,
Weisbuch
Cross, Smith
Dickerson
Duderstadt, Scott
WASC team
WASC team
THURSDAY
8:45 to 10:15 am
10:30 to 11:45 am
Discussion sessions
Discussion sessions
Noon to 1:15 pm
Team lunch (private)
1:30 to 2:45 pm
Special topics sessions
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Seminars
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Plenary session
Setting & assessing
educational objectives for
undergraduate programs
Graduate educational
effectiveness
Undergraduate
retention/graduation rates &
admissions selectivity
Graduate recruitment &
admissions; program
completion
Cross, Dickerson, Scott,
Smith
Duderstadt, González,
Lewis, Weisbuch
Cross, Dickerson, Scott,
Smith
Duderstadt, González,
Lewis, Weisbuch
WASC team
TA training programs
The role of undergraduate
colleges and student affairs in
undergraduate education
Graduate program placement
& career advising
Overview of Silicon Valley
activities
Balancing undergraduate &
graduate education (two
groups)
Cross, González, Smith
Dickerson
Lewis, Weisbuch
Duderstadt, Scott
WASC team
The two seminar groups meet
WASC team
jointly to discuss ideas
FRIDAY
8:30 am to 12:00 noon Discussion sessions
Noon to 1:15 pm
1:30 to 2:00 pm
Team lunch (private)
Exit interview
Integrating assessment with
academic planning &
resource allocation (1 hour)
Growth & "right sizing" (1
hour)
Developing a distinctive
character as a research
university (1 hour)
WASC team
WASC team
WASC team
WASC team
WASC team