Quality Enhancement Plan

What is a QEP?

QEP stands for Quality Enhancement Plan and presents an opportunity for us to enhance student experiences at WFU. It is a multi-year investment in an initiative that arises from our Strategic Framework and aims to improve student learning and/or success. The QEP is a requirement for SACSCOC accreditation, and provides an effective structure to bring a project to fruition and make it sustainable as a long-term gain for our students. We hope you will take part in the QEP topic selection this year.

Who is involved in QEP selection?

Students, faculty, and staff can all play a role, from contributing a topic idea in the student learning and support ideas survey or submitting a proposal to participating in feedback on the top proposals later this year.

What was our previous QEP?

Wake Forest’s 2016 QEP Transcending Boundaries: Building a Global Campus Community established four key initiatives: Arrive@Wake (Connect@Wake) for incoming international students to facilitate their transition across cultures; Global AWAKEnings, a first-year abroad program; Global Villages as living/learning communities focused on global mindedness; and the Global Laureates Academy, a network of faculty and staff exploring topics and challenges in global learning.

In September 2023, Wake Forest University will send out a call to all Wake Forest faculty and staff for proposals to identify its next Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Wake Forest’s QEP will reflect and affirm our commitment to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness.  The QEP will focus on an issue that aligns with our Mission and Strategic Framework Thematic Goals and improves student success. 

• All Wake 2026 QEP proposals need to …
  • Support Wake Forest’s Mission and align with at least one Strategic Framework Thematic Goal:
    • Communities of Learning: Wake Forest will be a lifelong learning community that calls all to develop their full potential to contribute in a diverse and complex world.
    • Communities of Inquiry: Wake Forest will foster a community of inquiry through research, scholarship, and creative work that transcends boundaries to address the challenges facing humanity and our world.
    • Community of Partnerships: Wake Forest will build meaningful, mutual partnerships to honor our commitment to the wellbeing of our local, regional and global communities.
  • Be specific as to what its programmatic goals are.
  • Provide an early estimate of realistic resources needed for successful implementation.
  • Describe how the proposal seeks to develop opportunities for novel or enhanced partnerships among units to foster radical collaboration.  
  • Recommend QEP leader(s), if different from the proposal author(s).
  • Be reviewed by the SACSCOC On-Site Reaffirmation Committee in spring 2026.
  • Provide a written update to SACSCOC on the the progress and achievements of the QEP as part of Wake Forest’s Fifth-Year Interim Report, due March 2032.

More information on how to submit a QEP proposal will be available on Sept. 25, 2023.