Quality Enhancement Plan Proposals
QEP Topic Selection Survey
UNF surveyed faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solicit suggestions for the QEP topic. The survey asked: "If UNF could do “just one thing” (other than improve parking) to enhance student learning and/or the learning environment at the university, what should it be?"
The survey closed at 5pm on February 23rd with 956 suggestions collected over a two week period.
QEP Pre-Proposal Guidelines
The QEP Planning Team has collected potential QEP topic suggestions from faculty members, staff members, and students, and has organized them in seven theme areas. The Team is now soliciting pre-proposals for topics that identify and provide basic justification for the selection of a topic for the five-year UNF Quality Enhancement Plan.
The seven theme areas are:
- Accommodation of Select Student Populations
- Expanded Transformational Learning Opportunities (TLO)
- Fostering Broad Student Engagement and Leadership
- On-campus Student Services and Climate Rejuvenation
- Professional and Life Long Skill Development of Students
- Technology Integration for Enhanced Student Learning
- Other
The brief (two-page) pre-proposals will be reviewed and four to six pre-proposals will be selected for development as more in depth full proposals in April. Research awards ($1,000) will support the development of the full (10-15 pages) proposals. Based on those proposals, three viable topics will be reviewed by the UNF Leadership Team and one will be selected as the QEP topic. After the QEP topic is selected, a QEP Development Team will be established to fully develop the plan that will be submitted to SACS in December 2008.
Anyone interested in developing a topic pre-proposal in one of the seven theme areas, including the Other category, should click here for the QEP Pre-Proposal Guidelines.
Twenty-two preproposals were received from the campus community (59% faculty, 13% staff/alumni, 27% students). The preproposals are available for review by clicking here.
QEP Proposal & Review Guidelines
The final responsibility of the QEP Planning Team is to evaluate the proposals and to select three of them to recommend to President Delaney and the Institutional Effectiveness Team. The authors were provided with Full Proposal Preparation Guidelines.
The QEP Planning Team members have until Friday, July 13th to read the proposals and fill out one evaluation form for each of the proposals. The evaluation forms should be anonymous. The forms may be submitted in one of three ways: (1) bring them to the final meeting in hard copy form; (2) hard copies may be given to either Dr. Paulson or Shawn Brayton prior to the meeting; (3) sent electronically to both Paulson and Brayton as email attachments.
A record will be kept of members who have submitted evaluation forms, but the evaluation forms will exist only as anonymous documents. Dr. Paulson and Shawn Brayton will facilitate the process but they will not submit personal evaluations of the proposals.
As agreed, the numerical assessments derived from the evaluation forms will only be a starting point for the final assessments of the proposals thus the final meeting of the team is very important.
As with the preproposal process, proposal authors are excluded form the evaluation process.
QEP Proposals
The following proposals were submitted to the QEP Planning Team for review.