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Central Virginia. Community College. Where your future begins. The QEP Quality Enhancement Plan. What is a QEP?. Q uality E nhancement P lan A core requirement for SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation:

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  1. Central Virginia Community College Where your future begins

  2. The QEP Quality Enhancement Plan

  3. What is a QEP? • Quality Enhancement Plan • A core requirementfor SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation: • “. . . a carefully designed course of action that addresses a well-defined and focused topic or issue related to enhancing student learning. The QEP should be embedded within the institution’s ongoing integrated institution-wide planning and evaluation process . . .” (SACSCOC Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 2007, p. 3) • An opportunity for the college to focus on a topic that we care about to improve student outcomes

  4. What is a QEP • An opportunity for the college to focus on a topic that we care about to improve student outcomes

  5. Why is a QEP now a SACS Core requirement? • To make the SACS reaffirmation of accreditation process less prescriptive and . . . • To give more control to institutions.

  6. An Acceptable QEP . . . • includes a broad-based institutional process identifying a key issue emerging from institutional assessment, • focuses on learning outcomesand/or the environment supporting student learning and accomplishing the mission of the institution, • demonstrates institutional capabilityfor the initiation, implementation, and completion of the QEP, • includes broad-based involvement of institutional constituencies in the development and proposed implementation of the QEP, and • identifies goals and a plan to assesstheir achievement. (SACSCOC Core Requirement 2.12)

  7. The Topic Selection Team • Topic Selection Co-Chairs • Cynthia Lofaso (HSS) and Rebecca Honeycutt (SME) • Additional committee members • Joey Fronheiser (IE/IR/Planning), Ernie Wade (BAH), Kimberly French (Counseling) • The entire CVCC Community

  8. The Process • Between January 2012 and May 2012 the committee met with and gathered information from the following groups: • Faculty Association • President’s Staff • Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Student Services group (deans and directors • Classified Staff Association • Part-Time Staff Association • Student Government Association

  9. Faculty Association Focus Group • Student success center • Writing center • Tutoring • Faculty advising • Focus on motivation and organizational skills of students • Focus on reading skills • Reading prerequisites

  10. Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Student Services Focus Group • An emphasis on the use of Collaborate for online instruction • An emphasis on mobile learning • Faculty in each degree major to teach SDV 100 • Hybrid Course Offerings – how it could benefit & impact instruction, increase offerings

  11. President’s Staff Focus Group • Re-emphasized the broad based approach • Approved existing QEP topics • It is up to the CVCC community to come up with the topic • Commitment of resources of both time and money

  12. Open Forum • More tutors and more subjects available for tutoring • Career advisement • Increased support for student success • Incorporation of reading, writing and math across the curriculum • Improvement in wait times in counseling • Improvement in student/faculty communication • Improved communication with counseling and advising • Faculty advising • Creation of learning communities

  13. Classified Staff Association Focus Group • Basic training for students in computer use, Blackboard and overall computer skills including proper use of email for communication • Assistance for students in conducting research and writing term papers • Basic training in library skills

  14. Part Time Staff Association Focus Group • Better structured tutoring center • Better staffing in the tutoring center • Stronger orientation program for incoming students • Creation of an alumni mentor program • Better communication of learning resources and scholarship opportunities to students • Development of a career center

  15. Department Meetings and Communications • Tutoring with drop in availability • Support for students with academic difficulties early in the semester • Math and English tutoring center • Walk in tutoring with a shorter wait time • Site tutors • Ways to enhance student motivation and promote a passion for learning • Comprehensive student learning center • Emphasis on literacy • Creation of a writing center

  16. Major Themes • Learning Resource Centerto provide tutoring to a greater number of students in a greater number of academic areas. • College Readiness Program to focus on students who are coming into the community college. • Reading, Writing and Math across the Curriculum to focus on the incorporation of fundamental skills across all general education courses.

  17. Survey Results

  18. Next Steps • Co-Chairs for the QEP Planning Process • Formation of Subcommittees • Stay tuned and get ready!

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