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7/28/2019 OSL Newsletter Issue 1 Fall 2012
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Student Luncheon Group with
three SACS On-Site Committee
Members
Extra! Extra!
Read All About It!!!
SACS On-Site Visit
What is the SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation visit all about? To many students, a sudden push about all things QEP
and being told about a team of people coming to the campus to determine whether or not their college credits will count is a
scary and out-of-the-blue thing. I hope to use this article to explain the entire Quality Enhancement Plan process in a way that
makes sense. Every ten years there is a SACS visit, each visit is actually a review of a Quality Enhancement Plan project. The on-
site team comes to the school with questions about our current QEP and uses the time on campus to speak to individuals about
it and figure out if it will really meet a need that we have on campus. Really, the SACS visit occurs in the middle of the QEP cycle
which begins 4 years before the visit.
The first step in developing a QEP is deciding on a topic. Our Colleges method of doing this was to send out an email
to all of our staff and faculty soliciting ideas and give them 6 months to form arguments for their topic choice. Then they held
different presentations where each group could pitch their idea and research. We decided on Math Empowerment because of
the number of students that did not graduate because they did not complete a college-level math course. After the topic was
chosen, the next step was putting together a Committee to write out the Quality Enhancement Plan along with a Compliance
Report.
The QEP that was written included five strategies: Advising, Placement, Student Engagement, Tutoring, and FacultyDevelopment. Each Strategy discussed what the school would do differently in order to improve math retention rates with our
students. The opening of a tutoring center solely for math, the Math Resource Center, along with flip classes, jumpstart
programs, the use of supplemental instructors, clickers, and informal tutoring were just a few of the ideas that the QEP team
wanted to implement to help our students with their mathematics. The Compliance Report was written along with the QEP to
explain how each strategy and idea coincided with the guidelines the Southern Association for Colleges and Schools set down
for quality enhancement plans. After the QEP and the Compliance Report was written, the team sent the Compliance Report to
be reviewed by an off-site SACS Committee.
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QEP Team writes
the QEP and the
Compliance
Report. Then they
send the
Compliance report
to the off-site SACS
Committee and
receive a response
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Ye
The off-site Committee wrote us back a response listing the concerns they had with our plan. We were then given
another year to write a Focus Report to respond to the off-site Committees concerns and both out finalized QEP and our Focus
Report were sent to the On-site Committee to be reviewed. All of this research and work culminated in a visit by the On-site
team. They came prepared with questions about our QEP and conducted several interviews with CVCs Administration, faculty,
staff and even students in order to assess how serious the campus was about our QEP. At the conclusion of their visit, they give
out recommendations and suggestions. What that means is that they told us which areas they think need to be worked with
more, and it is up to us to fix those problems and show that we fixed them with data. A few of the final comments from the on-
site SACS Committee included The entire school provided excellent customer service and The students we spoke to were
knowledgeable and polite. We were very impressed.
It was a good visit for Cedar Valley, but we will not get official approval until June. When
we do, the QEP will be implemented, and we will have about four years to collect data and see if the
QEP actually did what it set out to do, improve the number of students that complete a college level
math class. During year ten; five years after the on-site committee visited the school, something
called the Fifth Year Report is written. This report basically shows whether or not the QEP was a
success and gives SACS all of our data that we spent the past 4 years collecting. After that is sent in,
we have a one year resting period where all of our changes and strategies we made become
common policy, and then we start the cycle again and begin deciding on a new topic for our QEP.
Even though it seems to the average student like this whole SACS visit came out of nowhere, it isactually been a process that has been in motion since Cedar Valley College became an accredited
institution. Below is a timeline of the QEP cycle from the colleges point of view.
Deciding on a
topic for the
QEP
QEP Team writes Focus
Report as a response to the
questions and concerns
brought up by the off-site
SACS committee and sends
both the QEP and the Focus
Report to the on-site SACS
committee to review. On-
site SACS Committee
develops questions based
on the QEP and Focus
Report and then visits thecollege to assess the
school. School receives
recommendations and
suggestions by on-site SACS
Committee
The School works to implement those
recommendations and suggestions
over the next 5 years along with
implementing the QEP. The
implementation team at the school
gathers data and assesses whether or
not the QEP is accomplishing its goals.
The Fifth Year Re
written and sent in
have data that sup
QEP and shows that
that the QEP set ou
was indeed met. T
initiatives and str
become common sc
and there is a one
period before a ne
chosen.
10 year period from the Colleges point of view
t after
e fifth
ear
port
Dr. Wimbish speaking at
the SACS Party 10/19/12
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September 6th
, 2012- Fall Kick-off Party
The OSL hosted this event
in order to provide a festive
environment for meeting
new people and networking.
We provided food, drinks,
and music. We also had a
photo booth set up in D100
to take commemorative
pictures for free. There was
also a sign-up opportunity
for students that wanted to
join a CVC Club.
OnAugust 21st, 2012,
Meet the Faculty Dayoccurred.
70 Students showed up to the Cafeteria
to meet their instructors, discussclassroom expectations, and get ahead.
Our Lovely Student Ambassadors also led
campus tours throughout the day.
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For this event, 3 student
volunteers were invited to
come up to the stage and be a
contestant for Constitution
Trivia! The audience waited
with anticipation while the
point wheel spun and cheeredwhen a student panelist got a
correct answer. They also
enjoyed what our speaker; Dr.
Myrtle Freeman had to say
concerning the right to vote.
We also had a voters
registration table out.
September 18th
, 2012- Constitution Day
Congrats to our
1st
place trivia
Winner: Robert Gant!
What is OSL and What Can We Do For You?
The Office of Student Life helps to enhance your experience as a
college student. By providing opportunities with different clubs and
organizations, students thrive under participation. We are also here to
help students become more well-rounded, learn transferable skills, and
provide multiple networking possibilities. The OSL has hosted 16
events and counting this semester!
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There are Twenty-Nine
Active Clubs and
Organizations This
Semester! Those Include:
African American Student
Association (AASA)
Baptist Student Ministry
Bi-Lingual Student Ambassadors
Brother 2 Brother
Cheerleading
Commercial Music Association
Dance Club
Do Something Club
Family Music Theater Club
Fashion Club
Gamers on Campus
Gay/Straight Alliance
Health Professionals Club
Latin American Student
Organization (LASO)
Men of Distinction
Nation to Nation Club
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK)
Poetry- Literary Club
SACM: Sci-fi, Anime, and Comics
Movement
Sociology
SPACE Club Students for Physics,
Astronomy, Chemistry and
Engineering
Student Ambassadors
Student GovernmentAssociation
Student Leadership Institute (SLI)
Study Abroad
Tennis
THEMTheatre Helping Education
Move
Veterinarian Technology Student
Association (VTSA)
Women of Divinity
October 11th, 2012
Mens Coffee
The Office of
Student Life used
this event to Pilot
an electronic way
of gathering
event assessment
Data.
Our Speaker, Dr. Larry Bryant
spoke about Hip-Hop and how
the musical styles changed with
the times and mindsets of the
people making the music. He
indicated that anger and violence
in the music influenced the
people that listened to it to anger
and violence. He left us with a
simple thought- What does
todays music indicate about us?
Need help or want to learn more about the OSL?Contact Us!
Miyoshi Holmes (972-860-8237)
Harold Hankerson (972-860-8233)
Lauren Anderson, Lewis Giles, or Katrina Gibson (972-860-8257)
OR Come to D101-D104
for more assistance!