QEP Timeline in Brief
MUW’s QEP, Empowering Your Journey, seeks to engage students in professional development and career readiness programming—both inside and outside the classroom. The goal is for students to develop important career readiness skills and knowledge that they can explain to employers and utilize over the course of their entire professional lives.
The student learning outcomes of the QEP are intended to promote career readiness and high impact learning throughout a student’s time on campus and especially in classes required for their major. This will help students ensure that they can engage in activities, as they are not one-off programs but embedded into the requirements for the student’s major. The result will be students who know their value and are better able to articulate their value to future employers and advanced degree programs. Further, students will develop leadership abilities that will benefit them throughout their careers.
The following table briefly outlines the implementation of the action plan for the QEP. Click on the time frame to read about the plan for that period. The full plan can be found in “Chapter 4: Implementation Plan” of Empowering Your Journey.
Year 0 – Fall 2023
- Launch marketing plan to introduce Empowering Your Journey to the university community.
- Hire a director for the Career Services and Professional Development Center and pilot programming related to career readiness and NACE competencies.
- Pilot a service-learning and civic engagement project in UN 101 and Majors and Minors Fair.
- Identify first generation students in UN 101.
- Begin promoting Handshake and encouraging student adoption.
- Develop a marketing/branding plan for the Gen Ed.
- Begin collecting baseline data for assessment measures.
Year 0 – Spring 2024
- Advertise and select Faculty Fellows with at least 4 faculty fellows ready to begin work in the fall.
- Continue marketing to introduce Empowering Your Journey to the university community.
- KCTL programming on the QEP and at the Faculty Development Conference.
- Assess UN 101 pilot from the fall and make adjustments to course.
- Develop student mentorship program for first generation cohort.
- Develop professional development programming in LS and UN courses.
- Hire a permanent QEP director (to replace the interim).
- Develop new programming for the Professional Development Certificate Program. [ongoing]
- Hire an Internship Coordinator housed in the Center for CSPD.
- Develop training for faculty and students to use co-curricular tracking technology (Suitable or Engage) to track high impact learning inside and outside the classroom.
- Develop faculty and student guides for using Handshake.
- Continue collecting baseline data for assessment measures.
- Develop alumni survey to collect data related to employment and the pursuit of advanced degrees.
- Develop and add relevant questions to the Graduation Survey and Faculty Satisfaction Survey.
- Roll out marketing campaign for Gen Ed. Revive General Education Committee.
Year 0 – Fall 2024
- Offer programming related to preparing students to be successful in internships.
- Create a clearinghouse for internship opportunities for W students.
- Launch revised UN 101 with service-learning and civic engagement project, and Majors and Minors Fair.
- Pilot student mentorship program for first generation cohort.
- Pilot professional development programming in LS and UN courses.
- Build online resources on website and Canvas, along with developing Handshake programming.
- Pilot Faculty Fellows and their creation of toolkits for use in curriculum across campus.
- Share the faculty toolkits at the end of the term.
- Select Faculty Fellows to continue developing Canvas faculty toolkits related to NACE competencies.
- Pilot service learning project as part of orientations and Blues Week programming.
- Faculty fellows develop a student mentorship program to assist students in creating portfolios/e-Portfolios.
- Faculty programming on how to use Handshake/Folio to create student ePortfolios.
- Work with Gen Ed Committee to embed NACE competencies into Gen Ed curriculum and develop reflective assignments.
- Code attributes into Banner to designate high impact learning courses. Make courses searchable to students by those attributes on the course schedule.
- Launch new or revised technology for faculty and students to track high impact learning.
- Promote technology adoption through campus programming.
- Collect fall semester assessment data.
- Work with departments and program coordinators to develop QEP assessment measures in programmatic assessment of majors.
- Pilot the revised alumni survey.
Year 1 – Spring 2025
- Develop the guidelines of the Professional Development Certificate Program.
- Faculty Fellows launch a student mentorship program to assist students in creating portfolios/ePortfolios.
- Continue developing the online career center, along with developing Handshake programming.
- Launch interest inventory for students.
- Launch Faculty Fellows and their creation of toolkits for use in curriculum across campus.
- Share the faculty toolkits at the end of the term.
- Select Faculty Fellows to continue developing Canvas faculty toolkits related to NACE competencies.
- Create guidelines for Alumni Mentorship Program for mentors and mentees.
- Develop alumni network of potential mentors and begin marketing the program to encourage participation.
- Collect spring semester and annual assessment data.
- Review assessment data and make changes and updates for the next academic year, including to the alumni survey.
- Share results of pilot alumni survey with the campus.
- Launch revised Graduation Survey and Faculty Satisfaction Survey.
- QEP assessments embedded in programmatic assessment of the majors.
- Write and publish annual QEP report.
Year 1 – Fall 2025
- Launch the online career center on Canvas that is integrated with virtual and online Handshake resources and opportunities.
- Pilot the NACE-aligned certificate program.
- Pilot the Alumni Mentorship Program.
- Pilot the Preferred Internship Program.
- Launch service learning project in orientation and Blues Week.
- Continue to assess revised UN 101 with service-learning and civic engagement project, and Majors and Minors Fair.
- Launch student mentorship program for first generation cohort.
- Launch professional development programming in LS and UN courses.
- Collect fall assessment data.
- Launch the alumni survey.
- Coordinate with the Gen Ed assessment point person and share results of Gen Ed annual assessment with QEP Committee.
Year 2 – Spring 2026
- Launch Preferred Internship Program.
- Assess the pilots from the fall.
- Collect spring semester and annual assessment data.
- Share results of pilot alumni survey with the campus.
- Review assessment data and make changes and updates for the next academic year.
- Share results of the alumni survey.
- Write and publish annual QEP report.
Year 2 – Fall 2026
- Launch the NACE-aligned certificate program.
- Provide faculty development opportunities for campus regarding the certificate program.
- Launch the Alumni Mentorship Program.
- Collect fall semester assessment data.
- Conduct the alumni survey.
- Coordinate with the Gen Ed assessment point person and share results of Gen Ed annual assessment with QEP Committee.
Spring, Years 3, 4, and 5, 2027-2029
- Collect spring semester and annual assessment data.
- Review assessment data and make changes and updates for the next academic year.
- Share results of the alumni survey.
- Write and publish annual QEP report.
- (Year 5—Begin writing the QEP Impact Report.)
Fall, Years 3, 4, and 5, 2027-2029
- Collect fall semester assessment data.
- Conduct the alumni survey.
- Coordinate with the Gen Ed assessment point person and share results of Gen Ed annual assessment with QEP Committee.
- (Year 5—Submit the QEP Impact Report to SACSCOC.)