Simpson College has had a formal program review process for at least 30 years. The Assessment and Program Review Committee (APRC) was established as an independent committee in 2005 and was tasked with conducting internal program reviews, along with overseeing academic assessment. In April 2015, APRC was split into two committees: Academic Program Improvement Committee (APIC), with oversight of academic program reviews, and Student Learning Improvement Committee (SLIC), with oversight of academic assessment.APIC was responsible for reviewing every program offering master’s degrees, undergraduate majors, and interdisciplinary minors (such as Women’s and Gender Studies), as well as college-wide academic resource programs such as the Engaged Citizenship Curriculum (ECC), Simpson Writing Across the Curriculum (SWAC), and the Office of International Education (OIE). The reviews occurred on an eight-year schedule; a timeline consistent with HLC recommendations in the 2005 Site Visit Report. The program review process examined degrees and programs offered both in the traditional day program and in the Continuing & Graduate Programs (C&G) and includes relevant data from courses offered at all three campuses: Indianola, West Des Moines and Ankeny.The program review process was very labor intensive for departments undergoing review and for APIC. Program-level data such as course offerings and enrollments by major, enrollments in majors and minors for the past several years, and offerings across campuses and terms are provided to each department by the registrar. Other program-level data are not centrally collected, so collecting these data can be a burden to departments undergoing program review. Also, the program review process is lengthy: each review takes at least a year and a half. This is at least partly due to the number of interactions between the department, APIC, and the external reviewers.Due, in part, to the time restraints and workload for a rotating committee, the work of the program review process was moved to the Academic Dean’s office in 2024. To provide consistency in the program review process, the Associate Dean of General Education and Assessment works with each department undergoing the program review process. The comprehensive review process encourages academic programs to engage in ongoing self-evaluation to maintain and enhance their quality, vitality, and responsiveness, and aids in institutional planning and budget allocation.