We evaluate the effectiveness of our undergraduate programs in three main ways:

1.  Capstone courses require each student to become involved in the analysis of a real-world environmental problem.  How the students fare in these capstone experiences depends on the effectiveness of the instruction they received in previous courses, and grades are determined in part from faculty-student interviews in which the complete learning experience is evaluated.

2.  The Department Head meets informally with graduating seniors at a working luncheon, followed by a formal anonymous questionnaire (AY 2006 and 2007 exit interviews and questionnaire surveys).

3.  The College conducts 9-month and 5-year surveys of all of our graduates to determine how well our degree programs prepared them for their professional careers. We also periodically conduct interviews with leaders in governmental regulatory and funding agencies to determine how our graduates served their needs.