Learn More About PVCC’s Quality Enhancement Plan

Jessica Adkins, online editor

On Oct. 14, 2019, a group of accreditors will be coming to PVCC to see how the college will be implementing their new Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Every ten years, PVCC goes through a re-accreditation process to decide on a plan to improve PVCC. This includes a QEP. When it was time to decide on a topic for the QEP, President Frank Friedman was in charge of calling a mandatory, all-college meeting to have faculty and staff choose from a list of ten topics. Out of those ten topics, “Civic Sense” was chosen. 

“What is really cool is that the topic was chosen by the school as a whole,” said Connie Jorgensen, assistant professor of Political Science. Civic Sense was chosen as the topic for the QEP because PVCC encourages students to be actively engaged within their community. 

PVCC’s previous  QEP was “Writing Across the Curriculum,” which was proposed ten years ago. With the implementation, PVCC now requires students to take writing-intensive courses so they will be better prepared for the future. Along the same lines, this QEP includes creating civic engagement classes. 

“PVCC’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Civic Sense: Engaging in the Civic Life of their Communities, seeks to build graduates who have a strong commitment to democracy, and who engage in the civic life of their communities through collaborative, creative, and critical problem-solving,” according to the PVCC website.

To learn more about Civic Sense, stop by the table in the Bolick Center or visit its page on the PVCC website.