Date: January 2013
From: QEP Course Design & Curricular Changes Committee
To:
QEP Steering Committee
Re:
Recommendations for QEP launching FA 2013
 Armstrong QEP comprises a one-credit seminar in Information Literacy and college readiness
joined to a core course, thus forming an Academic Learning Community (ALC) that does not
necessarily need to be major-specific
 Enrolled students should be in their first year and first 15 week semester of Armstrong
enrollment. Additionally, any student who transfers in with less than 30 earned hours should be
required to enroll at their first opportunity.
 ALC will not be available in either flex or summer terms
 Designated for registration purposes by “Term FC”
 Course descriptions pursuant to home college: FYSS, College of Science and Technology; FYSL,
College of Liberal Arts; FYSE, College of Education; FYSH, College of Health Professions
 Class size: cap at 20 for writing-intensive sections, 24 for all others
 Grading: A - F
 Teaching faculty may determine their individual ALC structure as either teaching in pairs
(one teaching core, one teaching seminar), or as an individual teaching both core and
seminar.
 May be taught as part of regular teaching schedule
 Participating faculty be compensated $250 in travel or research funds for the required one-day
training
 Additional compensation for faculty teaching only the core class: $250 in travel or research funds
 Additional compensation for faculty teaching the seminar:
o $1500 course-overload pay for the teaching semester
OR
o Credit hours taught may accrue on a 1 : 1.5 ratio (taught : earned) in their “bank” of
hours toward course release. For example, should faculty choose the bank option, by
teaching two sections of the seminar they would qualify for a course release in a
subsequent semester.
o Individual teaching faculty in overload status should be given the choice to decide which
method of compensation (pay or bank) they elect.
 Development of an electronic resource center through university course management software,
Desire2Learn (D2L), to hold seminar-wide materials or modules.