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QEP Topic Selection Team Announcement and Invitation uky/QEP

This announcement invites the university community to join the QEP Topic Selection Team and contribute ideas for enhancing student learning. The QEP is a core requirement for accreditation and aims to address a focused topic related to student learning.

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QEP Topic Selection Team Announcement and Invitation uky/QEP

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  1. QEP Topic Selection Team Announcement and Invitation www.uky.edu/QEP

  2. Why are we here? • To introduce QEP • Toensure a deliberate & transparent process • To invite you to share “big ideas” • To ask for help in collecting assessment data

  3. What is a QEP? • Quality Enhancement Plan • A core requirement for 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” (SACS Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 2007, p. 3).

  4. 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.

  5. SACS Requirement Change • Compliance Report reduced from 463 MUST statements to . . . • 57 comprehensive standards, • 16 core requirements, and • 7 federal requirements. • Part I (Compliance Report) Due: Sept. 2012 • Part II (QEP) Due: Jan. 2013

  6. Why is the QEP important to UK? -If SACS does not accept our QEP Topic or even our Topic Selection Process, our university can lose accreditation! +We have the opportunity to determine for ourselves a student-learning related topic, goal, and plan to achieve it that will make our great institution even better!

  7. An Acceptable QEP . . . • is a broad-based institutional process • focused on student learning and learning outcomes • based on key issues emerging from assessment & • the mission (strategic plan) of the institution. In it, we must … • demonstrate institutional capability to implement, complete, and assess it. (SACS Core Requirement 2.12)

  8. Sample QEP Topics: • “Do the Right Thing: A Campus Conversation on Ethics” (Texas Tech Univ.) • “Enhancing Student Learning Through Improved Advising” (Louisiana State Univ.)

  9. More Sample Topics… • “Degrees of Excellence—Reconceptualizing the Core Curriculum” (Univ. of Alabama) • “Enhancing Student-Faculty Engagement” (Univ. of Virginia)

  10. More Sample Topics… • “The International and Intercultural Awareness Initiative” (Univ. of Tennessee) • “The Integrated Communication Initiative” (Webber International Univ.) • “Discovery Based Learning: Transforming the Undergraduate Experience Through Research” (University of Houston) • “The Student-Achievement Center: Enhancing Student Learning in a Comprehensive Service Center” (Louisiana Tech Univ.)

  11. What NOT To Do . . . Present the QEP as merely “another SACS hoop to jump through” Impose a QEP topic from the top down Submit a QEP topic that describes initiatives already fully realized Try to do too much (feasibility)

  12. Best Practices: Team-based Approach • Pre-Planning Team (PPT) Develops a topic selection plan and timeline • Topic Selection Team (TST) Identifies a topic based on broad input • QEP Development Team (QEP-DT) Writes up the 100-page QEP document (Due to SACS January 2013) • QEP Implementation Team (QEP-IT) Implements the QEP and prepares impact report (Due to SACS December 2017)

  13. Spring 2010 … Brainstorming • Introduce QEP • Ask for “Big ideas” • www.uky.edu/QEP • Collect & Review Existing Formal and Informal Assessment Data • Program Review Reports • Program assessment reports • Formative assessments

  14. Summer 2010Members of the TSTWill . . . • Categorize Ideas Based on Emergent Themes • Develop Criteria for Evaluating Pre-Proposals and White Papers • Develop Rubrics for Preparing Pre-Proposals and White Papers

  15. Pre-Proposals . . . • Begin to flesh out a “big idea” into a one-page executive summary that . . . • Includes a rationale explaining how the “big idea” relates directly to student learning and • Why this “big idea” is valuable to students, faculty, staff, & stakeholders (alumni, employers, community).

  16. White Papers . . . • Are fully developed 8-10 page proposals that provide . . . • A rationale and an implementation plan that are solidly • Supported with research. • Developers will be compensated with a $1000.00 honorarium.

  17. TST (August/September) • Invite Pre-Proposals (Guidelines, criteria, and rubrics will be included in the invitation.) • Report Emergent Themes Back To Campus Community

  18. TST (Fall 2010 – March 2011) • October 1: Pre-Proposals Due • Evaluate Pre-Proposals (Select 8-10 for possible White Papers.) • December 1: White papers are due. • January – March 2011: Evaluate white papers and, ultimately, the QEP topic.

  19. Questions? Comments? www.uky.edu/QEP

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