In some cases, there are good ideas, tools, and strategies that we can adapt to meet our needs here. It's hardly surprising, but one of the most commonly shared features of a successful APP process is a commitment to communicate with and engage the campus community.
Of course, there are also opportunities to learn from experiences on campuses where APP did not work well, resulting, for example: from a lack of transparency or of faculty involvement; from a failure to set reasonable expectations; or from the use of a priori assumptions about what the results of APP should be. By observing the pitfalls elsewhere, we can attempt to avoid running in to the same issues here.
The following list identifies some of the organizations that we have surveyed to learn about how APP efforts have worked elsewhere. (Items in bold were also considered by the previous ad hoc committee in developing their report and recommendations for PSU.)
- Alaska, Anchorage
- Angelo State
- Appalachian State University
- Boise State University
- Brock University
- CSU Sacramento
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- California State University East Bay (Hayward, CA)
- Central Oklahoma
- Cleveland State University
- East Carolina University
- Eastern Oregon
- Gallaudet University
- Hanover Research Council
- Humboldt State University
- Idaho State University (Pocatello, Idaho)
- Indiana State University
- Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)
- Minnesota Duluth
- Montana State University Billings
- Morehead State
- North Carolina State University
- Regina
- Saskatchewan
- Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond, LA)
- Southern Connecticut
- Southern Oregon
- Univ. of Central Oklahoma
- University of Colorado, Denver
- University of Colorado, Pueblo
- University of Guelph
- University of Nebraska
- University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)
- Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
- West Florida
- Western Carolina University
Where possible, we have included links to websites with more information. The APPC also maintains a larger repository of documents from other institutions; we do not feel at liberty to distribute these directly on the web, but are happy to provide more details to colleagues at PSU. In addition, of course, we welcome any additional pointers to documentation about APP efforts at other institutions, including notifications about dead or missing links in the above list.
