As described in part III of the overview, after graduation we, the department, and the students continued to be tied.  The student rightfully should expect to draw on our advice and letters of recommendation; and his or her future is helped or hindered by degree from the persistent quality of our department.   We, as a department, with warrant should attempt to elicit information from graduates in the interest of evaluating and developing programs in the department into the future.

We systematically collect these kinds of indirect data and make them available on this website.

1. We require students at graduation to complete a short post-questionnaire that asks about employment plans, graduate school plans; and also elicits suggestions for the department.  A copy of this questionnaire is found here.  Each year, data are compiled to show: immediate employment, graduate school admission; or employment, graduate school, and travel plans. 

2. Upon incorporating the Capstone Course, we have found a very valuable traffic of correspondence from recent graduates (who did the portfolio and took the Capstone Course).  We are keeping an archive of these observations.