The Quality Enhancement Plan
Introduction:
Florida Atlantic University is seeking reaffirmation of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). This process is already underway and will be finalized in 2013. As part of this process, a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) will propose the enhancement of educational quality at FAU beyond 2013. This plan will focus on supporting student learning and on accomplishing the mission of our university.
The QEP plan should demonstrate the following:
- Be based on a well demonstrated institutional need, derived from data
- Focus on learning outcomes and/or the environmental supporting student learning. The QEP topic(s) also must relate to and promote the institutional mission.
- Demonstrate that the institution has the resources (financial, instructional, or other) needed for the initiation, implementation, and completion of the QEP.
- Include broad-based involvement of institutional constituencies in the development and implementation of the QEP.
- Have well defined goals and a plan to assess their achievement.
QEP at FAU
The QEP topic that was chosen at FAU is "Integrating and expanding a culture of research, scholarship and creative activity, through the framework of an honors program". The primary aim of FAU’s QEP is to integrate and expand a culture of research and inquiry into our programs here through curricular, co-curricular and honors initiatives.
Faculty, staff and students are currently developing this plan. We have established 4 sub-committees: Honors, Curricular, Co-curricular and Student Culture. If you are interested in participating in this process please contact the chairs of each of the sub-committees.
Honors Sub-committee: Dr. Jeffrey Buller at jbuller@fau.edu
Curricular Sub-committee: Dr. Jennifer Peluso at jpeluso@fau.edu
Co-curricular Sub-committee: Drs. Donna Chamely-Wiik and Dr. Megan Davis at dchamely@fau.edu and MDavi105@hboi.fau.edu
Student culture Sub-committee: Mr. Joshua Scholl at jscholl1@my.fau.edu
**Content for this website was adapted from University of Central Florida's QEP website http://sacs.ucf.edu/qep/index.asp
