Best Practices Guide to Statewide Curriculum and Degree Program Review Processes

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, and CARCAM, the Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing, emphasizes the advantages of and need for statewide curricula in advanced technology education fields. The guide describes the Alabama Process Model used by CARCAM as well as the similar Florida Process Model utilized by FLATE to ensure programs are educating students to meet industry needs and state educational standards. Appendices to the guide offer a gap analysis management checklist, as well as a sample of Florida's survey form and a summary of their curriculum framework.