QEP: Course to Career
Guiding Institutional Priorities & Action
Forsyth Tech adopted a new Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in 2022, a project that involves our entire college community. The QEP is a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) requirement and an important part of our re-accreditation process. Our current QEP, called Charting a Course to Your Career, or Course to Career for short, was approved by SACSCOC in fall 2022.
What is our topic?
The primary focus of our current QEP, Course to Career, is to help students get on the right path and stay on that path until they reach their academic goal. This includes helping students identify the career track that fits their goals earlier in their academic program, stay connected with engagement points throughout their journey, embed career competencies adapted from NACE throughout the educational journey and build a connection with a faculty mentor within their chosen program of study to assist with career connections.
Helping Our College Community Succeed
The primary focus of the QEP is to help students get on the right path and stay on that path until they reach their academic goal. This includes helping students identify the career track that fits their goals earlier in their academic program, stay connected with engagement points throughout their journey, embed career competencies adapted from NACE throughout the educational journey and build a connection with a faculty mentor within their chosen program of study to assist with career connections
Additional Information
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a five-year plan designed to enhance student learning in some specific, measurable way. It is a requirement of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) for institutions to develop a QEP during the reaffirmation process (Core Requirement 7.2).
“Student learning” for the QEP is defined by SACSCOC as changes in students’ knowledge, skills, behaviors or values.
The QEP is an opportunity for Forsyth Tech to enhance overall quality and effectiveness by focusing on an issue we consider important to the learning experience of our students. Our goal was to develop a well-defined topic that is supported by the entire Forsyth Tech community (faculty, staff, students and administration).
September 2022: SACSCOC Approval
Late Fall 2022: Implementation
2023-2028: Ongoing Work and Evaluation
2028: Fifth Year and Impact Report Due
The monitoring, measurement and reporting of progress made on Course to Career is done within the Office of Strategic Planning & Innovation.