Program Advisory Committees 

How a program advisory committee can help collegiate programs.

Advisory committees contribute to collegiate programs in many ways.  They may, for example:

• Assist with task inventories to determine job skills needed in the local labor market
• Conduct labor-force surveys
• Analyze course content and sequence
• Review length of training programs
• Suggest program priorities
• Identify new technology in the discipline
• Evaluate space, equipment, and layout of shops and laboratories
• Establish minimum quality and proficiency standards for students
• Help recruit students
• Sponsor scholarships
• Encourage employees to provide student opportunities for on-the-job, cooperative training and/or work-study experiences
• Help identify and recruit qualified instructors
• Sponsor guest lecturers and adjunct instructors
• Provide for field trips and on-site visits
• Donate funds and equipment
• Assist in developing, implementing, and revising annual and long-range plans