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Item City of Minnetonka Home Loan Program Evaluation(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2013) Moon, DougThis project was completed as part of the 2012-2013 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Minnetonka. The Minnetonka Home Enhancement Program (MHEP) is a housing rehabilitation program that was established in 2011 to assist low- to medium-income residents to make improvements to their homes. Since the beginning of MHEP, only one housing rehabilitation loan has been executed. Minnetonka project lead and community development supervisor Elise Durbin worked with a Ph.D. student in OLPD 8595: Evaluation Problems, to conduct an evaluation of the program using surveys and phone interviews with MHEP applicants to determine why the program was not being used. Based on this analysis, the student provided recommendations related to program promotion, administration, and logistics. The student's final report is available.Item A How-to Manual for the Graduate Review and Improvement Process(University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2017-09) Hakkola, Leah; Moon, Doug; Ginger, MichelleThe inaugural volume of the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) Program Evaluation Series features the Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP). GRIP is an innovative student-centered process designed to develop actionable steps to enhance student success in graduate programs. MESI staff, primarily graduate students in the Evaluation Studies program, developed and implemented the process in consultation with the University of Minnesota Graduate School as an alternative to the traditional University external review process that typically occurs every five to ten years and produces largely quantitative information about a program (for example, time to degree, retention, and number of publications). With its commitment to active student involvement in the evaluation, GRIP can serve as a complementary process to external monitoring and surveying, one that allows students and program leaders to assess the quality of their curriculum, advising, instruction, and related services and to devise realistic plans to improve them.