AQIP Action Projects

Current Stark State Action Projects

• Advancing, Communicating, and Celebrating our Quality Initiative Successes
• Initiating an Ongoing Program to Create and Support a Quality Workplace
• Developing a Plan to Implement “Fast-Track” Career Enhancement Certificates

Completed Action Projects

• Process of Student Evaluation of Instruction
• Getting to Know You: Acknowledging Employees as Central to Fulfilling our Mission
• Quilt Project: Academic Quality Woven into the Fabric of our College Culture
• Implementation of the Associate of Arts and Associate of Science Degrees
• Improve the College-wide Employee Performance Evaluation Process
• Improvement of the Academic Advising Process
• Development of a Systematic Process for Academic Program Review
• Student Success-Tracking of Transfer Students and Career Goals
• Capitalizing on Information-Learning Resources to Foster Learning
• Assessment of Support Services and Support Departments (non-academic)
• Consistency of Policies in Internal and External Publications, including the Web
• Development of the Academic Assessment Template

General Responsibilities of the AQIP Project Teams

• Follow the seven step process of continuous quality improvement for each AQIP action project
• Provide monthly updates to the AQIP liaison
• Assist the AQIP liaison with the annual action project report

Questions to Assist in Identifying Action Projects

1. How ready are we to adapt to an evolving higher education market?
2. Where are we falling short in meeting students’ needs?
3. Where are we behind our competitors?
4. What new needs are surfacing that affects our students and other stakeholders?
5. What stands between us and the accomplishment of our strategic goals?
6. What new resource or capabilities must we acquire to implement our long-range strategies?
7. How can we project the image we want?
8. What new programs, services, locations, or other capabilities will provide better value to our students and other stakeholders?
9. What major delays slow down our processes?
10. Where is there a high volume of failures, withdrawals, or courses that must be retaken?
11. Where are the costs of poor quality (e.g., waste, rework) increasing?
12. What concerns or ideas have faculty or staff consistently rose?
13. What complaints have we been hearing repeatedly?