Program and discipline reviews at Northern Virginia Community College include an action plan to improve student learning. A recommendation describes an action that must be taken to achieve the goals and objectives of the program or discipline and to make the program effective. The recommendations must be tied to supporting evidence in the review report and must be directly and clearly related to the goals and objectives of the program or discipline. Recommendations are to be related to program or discipline specific issues, not college-wide policies and procedures, and include an action to be taken, a rationale for the action, the name of the person responsible for taking the action, and a due date.

A suggestion describes an action that should be taken to improve the program's or discipline's effectiveness. Each suggestion must also define a plan for action in the same way a recommendation does. Obviously, suggestions are not as strong as recommendations and therefore should define areas that while not crucial to the effectiveness of a program or discipline would, if carried out, enhance it.

Action Plans are approved by the Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the Administrative Council for its review and approval. The coordinating division chair of the program or discipline is required to report on the implementation of the action plan to the Curriculum Committee one year after it is approved by the Administrative Council and again one year after that.

Actions Plans are posted to this page after having been approved by the Administrative Council.