Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) The school shall appoint and utilize a
program advisory committee for each program being offered. If the school
programs are in the same or similar vocational areas, the same advisory
committee can be used for all related programs.
(2) Each committee shall be composed of not
less than three members, knowledgeable in the occupational area being offered
by the school and who are not employees of and have no financial interest in
the school and who are not related to the owner(s) or administrator(s). When a
program or curriculum is regulated, approved or certified by a state agency or
Oregon State licensing board other than the Higher Education Coordinating
Commission as identified in OAR 715-045-0014, that program or curriculum is
exempt from the advisory committee requirement.
(a) A list of the program advisory committee
members and a resume of each shall be furnished to the Superintendent. The list
and resumes shall include each member's name, address, telephone number,
present occupation and training experience; and
(b) The membership of the program advisory
committee shall include:
(A) At least three
members employed in the occupation served by the program, one of whom shall be
employed or working in a supervisory capacity, and
(B) Each of the three members shall have at
least two years' experience in the occupation or industry. Other members having
less experience may be added to the committee as desired.
(3) All program advisory
committees must officially meet at least one time per year to review school
policies, facilities, instructional materials, equipment, curriculum standards
and technical updating:
(a) The program
advisory committee shall meet to evaluate all new proposed program offerings
and whenever the school proposes major revisions in existing programs. At least
one such meeting per year shall be at the school. The following criteria will
be used to determine what constitutes a major program revision:
(A) A change of 25% or more of the previously
approved contract hours, credits, curriculum content (courses offered), or
program length, or
(B) A change in
academic measurement from clock-hours to credit-hours or vice versa, or a
change from quarter or trimesters to semester credits or vice versa, or
(C) Any additions or deletions of
courses offered that might change the overall objective of a currently approved
program;
(b) Minutes of
all program advisory committee meetings shall be on file in the school office.
A copy of the committee findings or recommendations, if any, shall be included
with the annual license renewal application; and
(c) If the school's report of enrollments,
completions, retentions and placements, as prescribed in OAR 715-045-0062(3),
does not provide information that the school is meeting the provisions of ORS
345.325, the commission's
executive director may call for the school to convene the program advisory
committee(s) for program evaluation(s) as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this
subsection.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
345.080
Stats. Implemented: ORS
345.080
