Instructions for
Completing the Narrative Statement and SummariesInstructions for
Completing the Narrative Statement and SummariesNarrative Statement: Purpose and Content
1. Purpose
a. Describe the purpose of the proposed program and the professional and educational assumptions which underlie it.
b. How does the new program relate to ongoing programs? Will it replace any existing program(s)?
2. Need
a. Why is the proposed program needed locally, statewide, or nationally?
b. Have students at the University or elsewhere requested this program? How many?
c. If the program is career or professionally oriented, have persons in the profession or career requested establishment of the program? Have the employment needs of professionals in the field been taken into account in designing the program?
d. Explain why you believe the need for such a program is insufficiently met by other institutions and to what extent the proposed program would meet this need.
e. What other institutions in the metropolitan area and in the Northeast offer similar programs? Have you consulted with them on the potential effect on their programs of our entry into the field?
f. Describe the potential for cooperation with other institutions in the field of the proposed program as well as any cooperative initiatives already taken.
3. Student body to be served
a. Describe the student body to be served, proposed admissions standards and selections procedures.
b. Registration of collegiate and professional programs by the New York State Education Department now requires that "the admissions process shall encourage the increased participation at all levels of persons from groups historically underrepresented in such programs." Describe the efforts you plan for recruiting persons in these groups ( including, if they are "underrepresented," women and the handicapped).
c. How many students do you expect in the first class and in the succeeding five classes?
d. Who will be responsible for students' academic supervision and advising?
a. How many points and/or terms of study will be required for the degree?
b. Submit the proposed curriculum, course outlines, program requirements. Describe the relationship of these to the program objectives.
c. List and describe any new courses proposed . Detail any courses proposed. Detail any formal arrangement for field work.
d. In the case of master or doctoral programs, show that the proposed program is consistent with the relevant parts of Section 52.2 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, attached.
Narrative Statement: Resource Utilization
1. Faculty and Staff
a. Who will serve as faculty program director? Which other faculty members will participate? Please submit their vitae (including highest degree, education experience and scholarly contributions and recognition.)
b. Is the director of the program tenured? What other faculty in the program are tenured?
c. If faculty has not yet been recruited, specify the number and rank of new positions to be established, including those to be tenured and those on tenure track.
d. List other research and teaching commitments of each participating faculty member, both for the first year of the program and, as far as can be determined, for the subsequent five years.
e. Will the program require any additional non-academic personnel? Will the time of existing staff be more fully utilized?
2. Description of the direct costs of the new program
a. Estimate in detail expected incremental expenditures and expected incremental income during the first year of the proposed program. How much of each expenditure item can be absorbed in the current budget and how much additionally appropriated money will be required?
b. Describe anticipated funding of additional faculty, staff, and financial aid expenditures.
c. Estimate the anticipated income and expenditure of the program for the five years following its first year. Please provide a full rationale for your estimates.
3. Indirect costs: space, library support, computer center, and other facilities
See Appendix B.
Narrative Statement: Quality Control
1 . Internal Evaluation
a. Describe the manner in which a periodic review of the academic quality and effectiveness of the program will be conducted by faculty, administration and students. The student portion of such review should occur both during the student's enrollment and after completion of the program.
b. Discusss the data to be collected as a part of such review, to measure, e.g., student achievement, accomplishment of graduates, faculty performance, and other appropriate indicators of the achievement of the program's goals and objectives.
2. External Evaluation
The New York State Education Department requires external review for proposed Masters or Doctoral programs. Submit the names of five recognized authorities in the discipline outside the University. From this list the Education Department will ordinarily select one or two to provide an outside evaluation of the proposal.
Summaries
1. Provide a summary of the plans for the development of the program over the five years following its proposed inception as regards: number of students, faculty and staff, curriculum, and direct and indirect costs.
2. Submit a one or two page abstract of the proposed program which can be circulated by the New York State Education Department to other institutions in the State who offer programs similar to the one proposed.
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