Which Quality Enhancement Plan Do You Prefer?

With our mission, strategic planning processes, your responses, and a broad array of assessment data in mind, the Quality Enhancement Plans (QEP) presented below were formed. Each has clear objectives, expectations of student outcomes and an assessment plan.  Each will also require adequate resources--human, physical and fiscal.  Please download the pdf files of each of the QEPs and read them.

• Creating a Teacher Education Learning Community Through Tiered Mentoring: A Pilot Study 
• Engaging Global Inquiry at Jackson State University 
• Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in General Education Mathematics and English Courses Using Service Learning and Learning Communities 
• Information Literacy Instruction at Jackson State University

Selecting a transformative QEP is essential for improving the learning environment and learning outcomes at JSU and central to JSU's reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).  However, only one can be chosen and implemented.  Tell us which plans you prefer and why.  Feel free to critique, praise or make suggestions about them. 

Faculty probe QEP ideas in a 2 p.m. session on Monday, March 30, 2009

Let's Transform the Learning Environment!

QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT

1. What significant challenges do you face in terms of your class preparation, readiness, and learning?
2. To what degree, if any, do you think you are receiving a first-class education---an education you can count on as a well-educated person in the job market, in graduate and professional school, in the world community and your hometown?
3. What does a first-class education include?
4. If you could redesign any of your JSU coursework or overall curriculum, what would you change and keep?

Ready to talk about these and related issues? Then join us Tuesday, Feb. 24 from 6-8 p.m. at the campus-wide QEP Student "Let's Talk" Forum at the Student Center in Ballroom A&B.

A Word from Dr. Mary Coleman

Three weeks ago I met with freshmen class officers and listened to them discuss their first semester at JSU.

The group of five diverse students, from three different states and as many different majors, had plenty thoughts. Most describled their first semester's experience as a remarkable adjustment. They witnessed good teachers and great classes as well as teachers who missed classes and arrived late and underprepared.
They also had misgivings about some teaching assistants' preparation as teachers; one pined for tutorials in economics and all wanted more interaction (mentorship) with faculty beyond the clasroom walls.

All said that if they had to select a college all over again, they would again select JSU.

We're off to a great start!

Behind the scenes at Jackson State, various committees are already convening to begin the process of developing a QEP plan.

Examples of QEP topics include strengthening the general studies curriculum; undergraduate research immersion; enhanced math literacy through imaginative technology; improving competencies in public speaking and extemporaneous reasoning; enhancing writing skills and analytical thinking in the humanities and sciences; and increasing global awareness.