We are thrilled to announce that after a thorough and collaborative selection process, "Transferable Skills for the 21st Century" has been chosen as the focus of our QEP. This topic emerged as the top choice, reflecting our collective commitment to equipping UHD students with essential skills for success in today's dynamic world.

A Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) begins as a simple idea that evolves into a unifying purpose and goal for a university. After careful consideration and planning, the QEP topic is selected—in our case, "Transferable Skills for the 21st Century." This marks the start of our journey to develop and refine a comprehensive plan aimed at implementing and assessing targeted initiatives to enhance student learning across the university. Although the QEP is a required component for university accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), it also presents a unique opportunity to coordinate and strengthen educational experiences through strategic innovation across campus.

The QEP addresses a well-defined and focused topic or issue related to enhancing student learning and/or student success. The QEP (Standard 7.2) is to have five essential elements:

1. Derived from institutional planning and evaluation processes;

2. Has broad-based support of institutional constituencies;

3. Focuses on improving specific student learning outcomes and/or student success;

4. Institution is committing and will continue to commit resources needed for the QEP to have a good chance of success; and

5. Includes a plan to assess the level of that success.

SACSCOC defines the QEP as “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 enhancing overall institutional quality and effectiveness by focusing on an issue the institution considers essential to improving student learning outcomes and/or student success (Resource Manual for The Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, p. 58).

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