SFAC Services Assessment Team

Unit Review Timeline - 2001

	Fall Quarter	Winter Quarter	Spring Quarter
Year 1			Week 1: Request recommendations of units to be reviewed from USAC and GSA. Request response by Week 5. Weeks 6-8: SAT and SFAC identify at least four units to be reviewed. Week 9: Send notification letter and self-study to selected units.
Year 2	Week 1: Discuss guidelines of SAT process. Request recommendations of groups to consult from USAC and GSA. Weeks 2-5: Review completed self-study. Give progress report on self-study to SFAC. Discuss guidelines of site visit. Weeks 5-9: Meet with unit representatives to tour site and discuss self-study.	Weeks 1-3: Give progress report on site visit to SFAC. Week 4: Discuss format for unit review report. Weeks 5-9: Begin preparing unit review report.	Week 1: Submit first draft of unit review report to SFAC. Weeks 4-6: SFAC gives feedback on unit review drafts to each team. Week 7: Submit final draft of unit review report to SFAC. Week 8: SFAC gives final feedback on unit review reports. Week 9: SFAC forwards unit review reports to Chancellor, USAC, GSA, and appropriate parties. Send copy to unit with notification of one-year follow-up meeting.
Year 3			Week 1: SFAC assigns each team one of the previous year’s unit review reports. Discuss guidelines of follow-up process and format for follow-up reports. Weeks 2-3: Review unit report. Conduct follow-up meeting with unit representatives to discuss implementation of recommendations. Prepare brief follow-up report. Week 4: Submit first draft of follow-up report to SFAC. Week 5-7: SFAC gives feedback on follow-up report to each team. Week 8: Submit final draft of follow-up report to SFAC. Week 9: SFAC forwards follow-up report to all recipients of original unit review report.