品质提升计划

澳门新葡京博彩 is a multi-campus institution serving over 15,000 students with associate and baccalaureate degree programs as well as a wide range of certificate and workforce training options. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). SACSCOC is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states. In order to maintain its membership with SACSCOC, every 10 years 澳门新葡京博彩 must develop, 实现, and complete a 品质提升计划 (QEP) as part of its reaffirmation for accreditation.

什么是质素保证计划?

每十年一次, colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) go through a review for reaffirmation of accreditation.  重新认可的用途, SACSCOC requires colleges and universities to engage in a broad-based self-study and discovery process to identify and become involved in a “plan” that will enhance overall student learning and/or the learning environment at the institution. This 品质提升计划 (QEP) is a five-year project that will become part of the college’s culture.

The QEP is a tool for institutional improvement focused on student learning and/or student success.

There are five criteria that a QEP must meet:

  1. Encompass a topic identified through an ongoing, comprehensive planning and evaluation process
  2. Have broad-based institutional support
  3. Focus on improving specific student-learning 结果 and/or student success
  4. Benefit from committed resources to initiate, 实现, and complete the QEP
  5. Include a plan to assess achievement

Student learning includes changes in students’ knowledge, skills, behaviors, and/or values. 的目标, 结果, and assessment strategies must be clearly linked to improving the quality of student learning while supporting the College’s mission and vision.

2018年8月, Polk State formed a QEP Topic Selection Committee (TSC) to identify a topic for the College’s next QEP. Using several sources of institutional data and a series of surveys of faculty, 工作人员, 最近的毕业生, the Committee was able to narrow eight broad topic areas down to two. The Committee then generated three topic proposals that addressed these areas. After collecting stakeholder feedback, the TSC developed a final topic proposal by combining elements of all three proposals. 最后的建议, which centers on career exploration and planning to increase completion, was presented to and approved by the College President and President’s Staff on May 17, 2019.

澳门新葡京博彩’s 品质提升计划 (QEP), 探索完成, seeks to engage students in intentional curricular and co-curricular career exploration and planning 活动. The purpose is to help students develop a career goal so they can get and stay on an academic pathway that leads to graduation.