NSU's Quality Enhancement Plan April 2017

6 | NSU QEP Development Process Broad-Based Involvement Topic Selection The QEP Committee first convened in January 2015 and reviewed the results of the above institutional data sets. The committee determined that to maximally engage faculty membership, QEP leadership would meet with each college’s faculty to discuss areas of opportunity to enhance student learning. The result was a series of faculty focus groups, each germinating a collection of ideas for areas in which to focus the QEP. It can be found at nova.edu/qep . Between February 23 and May 6, 2015, Packer-Muti and Seagull met with each college’s, and the library’s, QEP representative, dean, and faculty members to (a) explain the QEP and its role in regional accreditation and (b) gather feedback on areas of opportunity in student learning. As some colleges did not have college-wide faculty meetings during that span, a total of 21 meetings were held across the 18 academic units. In some cases, faculty members were connected through video conferencing to maximize inclusion. Furthermore, Packer-Muti and Seagull met with NSU’s PanSGA, a body comprising leadership from each student government, to gather additional feedback. All told, this process involved hundreds of faculty members, staff members, and students over a 10-week period. Once the ideas generated in the meetings were coalesced and tabulated, the top 10 items (each mentioned by at least six of the faculty groups) were presented to the QEP Committee for discussion and then voting. In descending order of frequency of mention, they were the following: 1. Writing* 2. Acculturation to college 3. Technology (to enhance pedagogy)* 4. Communication, broadly (including presentation skills, listening, and reading) 5. Research skills (including library instruction, IRB, plagiarism education, statistics, etc.) 6. Theory to practice/service learning* 7. Critical thinking/evidence-based decision-making 8. Peer-to-peer learning/teamwork/learning through teaching* 9. Diversity/internationalism 10. Cross-center collaboration* * Items were also mentioned by students at the PanSGA meeting. Following rich committee discussion, each academic unit ranked its top three choices for the QEP topic area. The top three areas were (a) Writing, (b) Acculturation to college, (c) Technology (to enhance pedagogy). The three top areas were then brought forward to the NSU SACSCOC Advisory Council for discussion and voting. The council was composed of the membership listed in Table 4.