QEP

The plan is not necessarily required to affect every student. However, it should be extensive enough to affect a large percentage of our students over the course of the project.

The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is an integral component of the reaffirmation of accreditation process and is derived from an institution’s ongoing comprehensive planning and evaluation processes. It reflects and affirms a commitment to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness by focusing on an issue the institution considers important to improving student learning outcomes and/or student success.  

A Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a carefully designed and focused course of action that addresses a well-defined topic or issue emerging from institutional assessment and evaluation. It focuses on enhancing student learning or student success, which is defined broadly in the context of the QEP and may address a wide range of topics or issues. In all cases, the goals and evaluation strategies must be clearly and directly linked to improving the quality of student learning or success and be consistent with our mission and Strategic Plan.

The QEP is a course of action that is specific to an institution and its mission. It is intended to be part of self-identified needs at a particular institution. It is an opportunity for an institution to be creative in an area related to compliance with the Principles. Therefore, although an institution may want to study QEPs completed by other institutions, an institution’s QEP should reflect the needs of the institution and be specific to its own comprehensive planning process.

 

There are two reasons. The most important reason is that it is an opportunity to enhance the quality and effectiveness of NTCC’s programs, by focusing on an issue or issues that we consider important to Student Success. The focus is on improving student learning. The second reason is that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), our regional accreditor, requires us to do so as part of the NTCC reaffirmation of accreditation (Core Requirement 7.2).