NFO 2024 – What Drives Pirate Nation – Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)

QEP stands for Quality Enhancement Plan, and a QEP is part of an institution’s accreditation process that is designed to implement and assess initiatives to improve student learning and success across the university over a 5-year period.  

This week, we share information about ECU’s 5-year QEP plan (2023-2028), Go Intercultural!, from the director of the QEP, Purificatión Martínez.  

Go Intercultural! seeks to increase the intercultural competence (IC) of ECU students by teaching them about self/cultural awareness, increasing their knowledge about global and domestic issues, demonstrating an openness to initiate and develop interactions with individuals culturally different from themselves, and showing an understanding of cultural commonalities and differences. By implementing Go Intercultural!, students will be ready to work and solve problems in collaboration with people from different cultural backgrounds.  

Faculty play an important role in developing the intercultural competence in ECU’s undergraduate students. In Summer 2023 and 2024, we hosted Intercultural Institutes designed to assist faculty in adopting IC in their courses and become trained IDI Qualified Administrators. Check out the QEP series page on OFE’s website to see upcoming opportunities for getting connected with this important initiative.