Framing the Topic with Intention

Defining Key Skills

With insights from our campus and beyond, we entered the final phase of shaping our QEP. In December 2024, members of our Steering Committee attended the SACSCOC Annual Meeting where we learned from other institutions that had taken on similar work. One key takeaway? To make meaningful progress, it is essential to focus – to narrow the scope of skills to something manageable.

Back on campus, we leaned into what we’d already gathered – stakeholder surveys, campus dialogues, and reflection sessions – and used that input to shape a more focused set of priorities.

We landed on four transferable skills as our QEP focus:

• Communication
• Professionalism
• Technology
• Decision-Making

These emerged from genuine campus conversations.

To explore how the QEP could be implemented, the Steering Committee developed four possible implementation proposals. Each proposal was designed to bring the topic to life in a different way, with attention to feasibility, impact, and alignment with existing efforts.

After in-depth discussion and reflection, the Steering Committee decided on a path forward: We will implement the QEP through a micro-credential model.