ACADEMIC AWARD GRANTING PROGRAM NARRATIVE PROMPTS

RESPONSES SUBMITTED TO DEAN/VP BY NOVEMBER 15, 2017

PROGRAM FOR EVALUATION: (Insert Program Name)

DEPARTMENT: (Insert Department Name)

COLLEGE: (Insert College Name)

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CONTEXT NARRATIVE: Program DESCRIPTION(Narrative Is Not Evaluated)

NARRATIVE PROMPT: In 250 words total or less, please provide a brief explanation of your program. The program description should provide a way for individuals outside ofyour program area to understand the program and the key characteristics that make it a distinctiveUndergraduate Award Completion, Undergraduate Award Foundation, or Graduate Award program.

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EVALUATED NARRATIVE #1: Program Mission Centrality

NARRATIVE PROMPT: In 500 words total or less, please provide an explanation of how theprogram aligns with the Minnesota State Mankato Mission, Statement of University Goals,Core Values, and Strategic Directions. Additionally, this narrative should provide an explanation of the program and its alignment with the Minnesota State Mankato Academic Master Plan and Shared Principles.

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EVALUATED NARRATIVE #2: PROGRAM IMPACT

NARRATIVE PROMPT: In 1,000 words total or less, please provide an explanation of your program’s impact – choose from the following most relevant options as ways to give a description of your program’s impact foci or emphases via:

  • community, what is considered “the community,” and the engagement the program maintains with that community;
  • an explanation of your program’s partnerships (internal and external to the university);
  • a description of the grants and contracts your program controls and is engaged in;
  • the performances and exhibitions produced by your program;
  • the quality of innovation that your program illustrates; and
  • the unique contributions that your program provides and at what level those contributions occur.

This narrative provides a picture of the “so what?” and perhaps “so why?” of your program. The following “Examples Indicators of Practice” provide possible choices of indicators for evaluation. The “Example Indicators of Impact” are just that, examples, and are not meant to be exhaustive or restrictive.

EXAMPLEINDICATORS OF IMPACT:

  • Relationship to University Strategic Directions
  • Change in awareness, knowledge or skills
  • Policy changes
  • Changes in behavior
  • Changes in community capacity
  • Changes in organizational capacity
  • Unique contributions
  • Quality of innovation
  • Increased confidence, social networks, improved relationships

Please identify and provide supporting narrative for the three most important indicators of your program’s significant impact on which to be evaluated for Program Impact.

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EVALUATED NARRATIVE #3: Program External Demand

NARRATIVE PROMPT: In 500 words total or less, please provide a statement of strategic direction for your program, opportunities,and plans for the future. Be sure to indicate how the strategic direction of your programserves or meets current or near-term future needs that are external to the University.

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