Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Team Responsibilities

The purpose of the Quality Enhancement Plan Team is to carefully design a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) that will result in transforming improvements in the quality of student learning at Northwest-Shoals Community College.

The responsibilities of the Quality Enhancement Plan Team include the following:

• Designing the process for developing the QEP, including establishing the timeline for the completion of tasks and selecting individuals and groups to be involved in the process

• Informing and educating the campus about the purposes and processes of the QEP

• Ensuring and documenting broad-based campus community input into identification and selection of the QEP topic

• Ensuring that the topic is well-defined, focused and directly relates to enhancing a specific set of student learning outcomes

• Conducting necessary literature/best practices research on the topic

• Attending relevant conferences, workshops, and seminars to develop sufficient expertise on the topic

• Ensuring that the QEP complements the institution’s ongoing integrated institution-wide planning and evaluation processes

• Reporting progess to the Leadership Team

• Developing an ambitious, yet realistic and viable, implementation plan

• Developing a rigorous multifaceted assessment and implementation evaluation plan

• Developing the QEP narrative

• Conducting a PR campaign to inform campus community about the QEP strategies

• Working with the Document Organization Team to develop a user-friendly format for presenting the QEP to the campus community and the On-site Review Committee

• Developing the QEP Implementation Report in 2014