APSU's next QEP has a name!

QEP's New Name - Peay Composed

APSU’s new and upcoming Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) has a name – Peay Composed. The Office of the QEP held a naming contest for students, and after more than 70 entries, Peay Composed was selected by the QEP Planning Committee.

APSU’s next QEP, Peay Composed, will focus on students’ written communication skills along with self-regulation and metacognition skills. We are continuing to plan and pilot elements of the QEP in preparation for our SACSCOC visit next year.

Nik Mabry is a Clarksville native and graduate student in the Doctor of Education program at APSU. Her research interests focus on school counselors' college and career readiness roles and activities. Her professional background is in secondary education, and she is currently working in a corporate environment where she develops employees' leadership skills.

Congratulations, Nik!

What is the QEP?

The Quality Enhancement Plan, or QEP, is a university wide initiative designed to improve student learning and/or student success. It is an integral part of Austin Peay State University’s reaffirmation of accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). As defined by SACSCOC, the Quality Enhancement Plan “affirms a commitment to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness” by “improving student learning outcomes and/or student success.”

Beyond being a requirement of the SACSCOC accreditation process, the QEP is an opportunity for the university to come together and identify ways to further support our students’ learning.

According to SACSCOC, the QEP needs to:

Identify a topic through its ongoing, comprehensive planning and evaluation processes
Have broad-based support of institutional constituencies
Focus on improving specific student learning outcomes and/or student success
Commit sufficient resources to initiate, implement, and complete the QEP
Have an assessment plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the QEP

At Austin Peay State University, we are planning our next QEP in Fall 2021. The first step will be to identify a topic that supports student learning outcomes and/or student success.

Over the 2022-2023 academic year, the Office of the QEP will be reaching out to students, faculty, staff, and administration for input and involvement in choosing, designing, and implementing the next QEP.

QEP Committee 2022-2023

Department / Unit	Name	Title/ Role
CoAL	Keely Mohon-Doyle	Assistant Professor, Languages & Literature
CoAL	Marisa Sikes	Associate Professor, Languages & Literature
CoB	Matt Hampton	Assistant Professor, Accounting, Finance, & Economics
CoBHS	Amanda Patrick	Assistant Professor, Sociology
CoBHS	Tasha Ruffin	Assistant Professor, Nursing
CoE	Maya He	Assistant Professor, Educational Specialties
CoSTEM	Meagan Mann	Associate Professor, Chemistry
CoSTEM	Sumen Sen	Associate Professor, Mathematics
Library	Jennifer Harris	Assistant Professor, Library
Writing Center	Allie Johnston	Director
Academic Advising	Whitney Miliken	Student Success Coordinator
Career Services	Eric Morgan	Director
Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence	Melissa Kates	Director
Center for Extended & International Education	Anna Carrie Webb	Director of Distance Education
Learning Resource Center	Blaire Woodring	Director
Fort Campbell Campus	Marisa Roberts	Director of Marketing and Recruitment
Boyd Health Services	Crystal Henson	Director
Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion	LaNeeça Williams	Chief Diversity Officer
Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Assess.	Allie Michael	Assistant Director
Office of the QEP	Troy Priest	Director
Student Representative	Logan Sykes	Student

The APSU QEP Timeline

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The purpose of this step is to initiate the process of identifying an appropriate topic and identify the resources required for the development of the QEP. The goal of this step is to assemble a QEP “Think Tank” team with broad representation from the APSU community to identify possible topics.

Step 1 involves the selection process and examining the feasibility of the QEP topic; step 2 involves developing the actual plan. A QEP implementation team will create the plan to be presented to SACSCOC, after obtaining university support and approval from the Senior Leadership Team. The plan will include the topic identification process, relevant research on the topic and the student learning outcomes and/or student success goals.

After the QEP is approved internally and reviewed by consultant, it is important to conduct a pilot implementation. Based on feedback from consultant and data from the pilot, the QEP implementation team will modify the QEP as necessary.

Once the QEP is approved by SACSCOC, the full implementation will begin immediately. The QEP team will track, assess, and implement the QEP in accordance with the established implementation timeline and expand the marketing of the QEP to the APSU community.

For more information on the QEP, contact the Office of the QEP at (931) 221-6760 or qep@apsu.edu.

Feel free to stop by our offices on the second floor of Miller Hall.