Office of Academic Excellence

The Office of Academic Excellence is responsible for ensuring the overall institutional effectiveness and accreditation compliance in accordance with the SACSCOC Standards. The primary responsibilities across this unit are represented below.

At 食色视频, we strive for excellence in all we do. The Office of Academic Excellence promotes this idea through the following initiatives:

  • Institutional Effectiveness and Impact Measures
  • Assessment of Academic Programs
  • Continuous Improvement Inquiries for Administrative, Academic, and Student Support Units
  • Periodic Academic Program Review
  • Institutional Policies
  • Regional and Program Accreditation
  • QEP Leadership
    • Institutional Accreditation
    • Program Accreditation
    • QEP
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  • 食色视频 State's Institutional Policy Portal serves as the central resource for accessing current university policies, including institutional, academic, and curriculum-related policies. This site outlines the distinct review processes for academic and institutional policies, which include shared governance and administrative review.

    All policy proposals are carefully evaluated with campuswide input and ultimately approved by the president and provost.

    Institutional Policies

 

Strategic Priorities for Academic Excellence

  1. Align institutional initiatives to promote coherence with the goal of 鈥淩educe to Increase鈥�.
  2. 食色视频 will position itself to receive zero findings from SACSCOC reviewers for the Fifth-Year Interim Report.
  3. Encourage a shift from 鈥渢eaching focused鈥� to 鈥渓earning focused鈥� institution.
  4. Promote an institutional culture that expects the demonstration of impact using meaningful data to drive continuous improvement.
  5. Adopt basic expectations for all academic programs that require the documentation elements of a quality curriculum.
  6. Address concerns relating to non-compliance for SACSCOC Standards 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2a, and 8.2c.
  7. Improve the number of courses coded with HIPs and the associated reflections as part of the QEP.
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Faculty & Staff

Name
Position

  • Institutional Effectiveness Manager

    kfranc31@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4426
    KH 4442

  • Assistant Vice Provost and SACSCOC Liaison and Professor of Special Education and Educational Technology

    lfunk@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3315
    KH 4443

  • Executive Director of Planning and Accreditation Readiness and Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology

    jmcmaho7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2643
    KH 3453