Quality Enhancement Plan Timeline
Preceding 2008
Late 1980's – Distance education first offered at Alvin Community College
Fall 1997 – Distance Education Department established at ACC
Fall 1999 – First Internet classes offered at ACC
Fall 2007 – ACC begins a four-year Achieving the Dream Initiative; faculty workshop designed to identify areas of institutional and student learning improvement
2008
May 2008 – Karen Downey selected to form and chair the ACC QEP Team; Christopher Chance selected to co-chair
June 2008 – QEP Team Chairs began research into literature and possible topics
September 13, 2008 – Hurricane Ike struck ACC, forcing a four-week college closure and moving ACC into the 2012 SACS reaffirmation class
December 2008 – QEP Co-chair Chris Chance attends SACS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
2009
January through December 2009 – QEP Team Chairs met regularly and continued research
2010
January 2010 – QEP Team Co-chair Karen Downey attends SACS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
January 2010 – QEP Team Chairs selected and solicited committee members from academic and technical faculty, staff, and student body
February 2010 – QEP Team Chairs met with College of the Mainland QEP Chair, Bruce Glover
Quality Enhancement Plan Timeline (cont.)
February 2010 – First QEP Team meeting convened; faculty, student, alumni, and community QEP topic surveys proposed
March 2010 – Faculty, student, alumni, and community QEP topic survey administered and reviewed
May 2010 – QEP online site (using Blackboard course delivery system) established as a way for QEP Team members to communicate and store documents and pertinent literature
June 2010 – Linda Matteson selected to write the QEP document; QEP Team voted unanimously in favor of “technology” as a QEP topic
July 2010 – QEP Team narrowed its focus to online education and technology; student learning outcomes defined
August 2010 – QEP Team began literature search concerning technology and online classes; discussion of scholarly literature
September 2010 – QEP Team determined the final QEP Topic: students will take an online tutorial designed to enhance student learning in online classes; QEP Team began the search for an evaluator for on-site review; QEP Team developed a survey to assess student learning outcomes; a timeline for implementation of the QEP Topic established; QEP Team discussed the need for identifying resources and delegated responsibilities; preliminary QEP Budget discussed
October 2010 – QEP Team, members began to write sections of the QEP document
November 2010 – Student and Faculty focus groups convened to consider the QEP Topic, Blackboard online orientation/tutorial; QEP Budget assessment and discussion
2011
January 2011 – QEP Draft completed; QEP Budget proposed
February 2011 – QEP Workshop with Dr. Rudolph Jackson; QEP Team determined the level and extent of longitudinal tracking and the type of orientation to be used
Quality Enhancement Plan Timeline (cont.)
March 2011 – QEP Team continued to write, edit, and rewrite the QEP Document
April 2011– QEP Team began to focus closer on the details concerning the structure of the document (appendices, charts, and graphs)
May 2011 – QEP Team continued to edit the document; new appendices proposed and added
June 2011 – Lead Evaluator J. Patrick Whitaker nominated to review QEP Document
September 2011 – SACS on-site visit
October 2011 – Begin job-search for QEP personnel
December 2011 – Allocate office space and purchase office equipment for QEP personnel
Fall 2011 – QEP Instructional Design Team will review and customize CMS Orientation Package
2012
Spring 2012 – QEP Instructional Design Team will review and customize CMS Orientation Package
January 2012 – Hire personnel to support QEP
Summer 2012 – Preproduction versions of orientation modules will be beta-tested
August 2012 – Blackboard Release 9
August 2012 – Distance Education Department will distribute Blackboard Orientation information to faculty and staff at Fall Workshop
2013
January 2013 – Distance Education Department will distribute Blackboard Orientation information to faculty and staff at Spring Workshop
January 2013 – QEP online orientation assessment launched
May 2013 – Student end-of-course evaluation; student focus group; faculty focus group
May 2013 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
December 2013 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
Quality Enhancement Plan Timeline (cont.)
2014
May 2014 – Student end-of-course evaluation; student focus group; faculty focus group
May 2014 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
December 2014 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
2015
May 2015 – Student end-of-course evaluation; student focus group; faculty focus group
May 2015 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
June 2015 – QEP Committee pre-post online orientation comparative analysis
December 2015 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
2016
May 2016 – Student end-of-course evaluation; student focus group; faculty focus group
May 2016 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
December 2016 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
2017
May 2017 – Student end-of-course evaluation; student focus group; faculty focus group
May 2017 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
June 2017 – QEP Committee pre-post online orientation comparative analysis
December 2017 – Collection of cumulative pass/fail and withdrawal rates
December 2017 – Comparison pass/fail and withdrawal rates of pre-five year online orientation data set to five-year post online orientation data set
