Examples:
Profiles of Quality Enhancement Plans
from the Eight SACS Pilot Institutions

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

The institution has designed its QEP to focus on newly-enhanced initiatives and strategies for student success directed to three distinct populations of students: entering freshmen, transfer students, and off-campus students. Specifically, the QEP will (1) reduce barriers to student success, (2) increase student learning both in and out of the classroom, and (3) encourage students to participate more fully in the life of the university and the region. [For a detailed description, go to ETSU's web page on their QEP.]

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The institution's QEP is designed to enhance student advising by studying the following components: (1) the advisement process and its improvement; (2) the orientation course required of all new students (STD 100); (3) faculty development in the area of student advising; (4) means for incorporating advising into the faculty evaluation process; and (5) evaluation of the effectiveness of advising at the institution.

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Memphis College of Art
Memphis, Tennessee

The institution's QEP focuses on providing services and programs designed to retain students and help them persist- focusing both on the at-risk student and on the exceptional student. The plan consists of three main thrusts: (1) creating a student-first culture; (2) establishing the college as a "wise" investment for the professional artist/student; and (3) expanding programs and services that focus on student success.

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Morris College
Sumter, South Carolina

The institution's QEP has as its theme "Engaging Students More Effectively Toward the Goals of Improved Learning and Student Development." The main goals of the Plan are: (1) to engage a greater number of students more fully in those institutional services of the college that promote improved learning and student development; (2) to engage faculty members more actively and more extensively with individual students in fulfilling their roles as teachers, advisors, tutors, counselors, and mentors; (3) to identify and modify those institutional policies, practices, functions and activities that may cause students to feel disengaged from the institution and its mission; and (4) to expand the college's information system to include student information needed to support the work of teachers, advisors, counselors, and mentors.

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Radford University
Radford, Virginia

The institution's QEP focuses on the support of learning and student development by enhancing an environment and learning culture that increases student engagement, especially with curriculum, over the entire course of study from the freshman year to graduation. It builds on activities and programs that have been developed at the institution over the past several years and extends student engagement efforts into the individual academic departments and student service units.

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Richland College
Dallas, Texas

The institution's QEP encourages faculty, staff, and administrators to enhance their efforts to provide meaningful student learning. The focus of the 2001-2002 phase of the plan is student retention. Instructional and student services work groups identify "best practices," monitor, and evaluate their efforts to enhance student retention and learning ¾ individually and collectively.

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Texas A & M University
College Station, Texas

The institution's QEP has been incorporated into a coordinated, interrelated, university-wide planning process. The planning process has three components: Vision 2020, Strategic Plan 2001, and the Quality Enhancement Plan. The Plan will address four cross-cutting issues (diversity, internationalization, technology, and research), as well as the central theme Commitment to State and Nation, using the strategic planning reports of the various units as major sources of information. The Plan will be organized around the central theme, a restatement of the institution's basic land-grant covenant - to provide an environment in which all students succeed in realizing their potential as individuals and future citizens. For that reason, the Plan will emphasize the institution's analysis on its degree of achievement in fulfilling its responsibility for student learning and how future improvement will be obtained.

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Transylvania University
Lexington, Kentucky

The institution's QEP has as its theme "Enhancing Life and Learning at Transylvania." The Plan encompasses the following main goals: (1) to enhance student learning activities, tutoring, technology instruction, student internships, community service, study abroad, and learning resources; (2) to provide the physical resources to support the student learning activities; (3) to continue to enhance the intellectual life of the campus; and (4) to enhance the scope, content, understanding, and effectiveness of the role in student advising.