The Provost’s QEP Development & Planning Committee (DPC) works alongside the QEP leadership team to develop Georgia Tech’s next Quality Enhancement Plan. The DPC will ensure broad-based support of institutional constituencies and will focus on the improvement of specific student learning outcomes associated with the topic. In performing this effort, the DPC recognizes that the QEP reflects and affirms Georgia Tech’s commitment to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness by its focus on this topic, which has been identified by the Institute as important to improving student learning outcomes.

Development & Planning Committee (June 2023 - April 2025)

QEP Leadership Team:

  • Co-chair: Larry Jacobs, Senior Vice Provost for Education and Learning
  • Co-chair: Steven Girardot, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • Coordinator: Roberta Berry, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • Faculty Co-Director: Chad Slieper, Academic Professional and Director of Law, Science & Technology Program
  • Faculty Co-Director: Kate Williams, Senior Academic Professional and Associate Director of Transformative Teaching and Learning in the Center for Teaching and Learning

The QEP Development & Planning Committee is comprised of representation from across the Georgia Tech Community:

  • Rodrigo Borela Valente, Lecturer, School of Computing Instruction
  • Laura Carruth, Associate Vice Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning; Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Courtney Cullen, QEP Assessment Manager, Office of Academic Effectiveness
  • Juana Cunningham, Senior Director, Georgia Tech Strategic Consulting
  • Rudy Gleason, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
  • Rachael Greene, Assistant Director of Communications, Office of Undergraduate Education
  • Amy Henry, Executive Director, International Education
  • Mary McDonald, Professor, History and Sociology
  • John Mark Page, Undergraduate Transfer Student, Electrical Engineering
  • Mayuresh Patil, Professor of the Practice, Aerospace Engineering
  • Loraine Phillips, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Effectiveness
  • Reta Pikowsky, Associate Vice Provost and Registrar, Enrollment Management
  • Chris Reaves, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Executive Director, Experiential and Engaged Learning
  • Hunter Richardson, Undergraduate Student; Vice President of Academic Affairs, Undergraduate SGA; Chair, OUE Student Advisory Board; Scheller College of Business
  • Carrie Shepler, Assistant Dean for Teaching Effectiveness, Principal Academic Professional, College of Sciences
  • Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Executive Director, VIP Program
  • John Stein, Associate Vice President for Student Life; Brandt-Fritz Dean of Students Chair
  • Adam Steinberg, Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Programs, Aerospace Engineering; Vice Chair, IUCC/General Education Subcommittee
  • Aselia Urmanbetova, Undergraduate Teaching Coordinator, Academic Professional, Economics
  • Jason Wang, Interim Senior Director, Director of Data Management, Institutional Research and Planning
  • Lauren Evans (ex officio), Program and Operations Manager, Sr., Undergraduate Curriculum
  • Cara-Joy Wong (ex officio), Program and Portfolio Manager, Education and Learning (committee support)
  • Sarah Wu (ex officio), Academic Assessment Manager, Academic Effectiveness (interim)

QEP Topic Selection Committee (September 2022 – May 2023)

The QEP Topic Selection Committee was charged with

  • Identifying potential QEP Topics based on Georgia Tech’s Strategic Plan and the Transformative Teaching and Learning (TTL) Strategy
  • Collecting existing data and input from campus stakeholders relevant to those topics
  • Choosing a final topic based on the data and information collection to recommend for the QEP topic

QEP Topic Selection Committee Leadership:

  • Co-chair: Larry Jacobs, Senior Vice Provost for Education and Learning, Office of the Provost
  • Co-chair; Steven Girardot, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Office of the Provost

QEP Topic Selection Committee Membership:

  • Shatakshee Dhongde, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • Luoluo Hong, Vice President for Student Engagement & Well-Being, Division of Student Engagement & Well-Being
  • Aisha Johnson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Outreach, Library
  • David Joyner, Executive Director, Online Education & OMSCS, College of Computing
  • Loraine Phillips, Associate Provost for Academic Effectiveness, Office of the Provost
  • Carrie Shepler, Assistant Dean for Teaching Effectiveness, College of Sciences
  • Aanjan Sikal, Undergraduate Student, Undergraduate SGA
  • Mitchell Walker, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering
  • Kate Williams, Assistant Director for TA Development, Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Craig Womack, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs, Scheller College of Business
  • Juana Cunningham (ex officio), Senior Consultant, GT Strategic Consulting
  • L. Troy Shaw (ex officio), Decision Support Consultant, Data and Research Support, Institutional Research & Planning (IRP)