Quality Enhancement Plan

Overview

As part of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' (SACS) re-accreditation process, a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a carefully designed and focused university-wide initiative to improve learning.  The primary focus of North Carolina Central University's QEP is to enhance NCCU students' oral and written communication skills.  Students will create electronic portfolios to gather, explore and store their oral and written artifacts of learning throughout their enrollment.  At the end of each academic year, faculty who teach writing-intensive and speaking-intensive courses, as well as writing and speaking consultants from outside the campus, will evaluate the portfolios and, when needed, develop intervention plans for students to enhance their skills. 

The four student learning outcomes are as follows:

(1) Students will create written documents that are well-organized and well-developed, that present and prove a clear thesis, and that use language that is appropriate to the specific discipline, audience and purpose.

(2) Students will demonstrate oral and written critical thinking and analytical skills and appropriate use of technology consistent with assignment objectives.

(3) Students will create written documents that engage cross-disciplinary ideas and audiences in order to broaden their thinking about their own disciplines and career paths.

(4) Students will confidently and articulately conduct oral presentations that are organized and developed, that present and prove a clear thesis, and that make appropriate use of visual aids and language given a specific discipline, audience, and purpose.