What is a QEP?
A Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is an integral part of the reaffirmation process by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
It's a five-year plan developed with broad-based participation that supports student success by committing resources and assessing outcomes. Longwood's QEP is the Post-Graduate Success Initiative.
Key Frameworks & Activities
Setting Post-Graduate Goals
Students will define post-graduate goals aligned with their holistic sense of self and community.
Creating a Comprehensive Plan
Students will create (and revise) a comprehensive plan combining academic and extracurricular experiences to support their goals.
Articulating Accomplishments
Students will be able to articulate the connection between their academic and extracurricular experiences and their post-graduate goals.
Consider Life Design
To Consider Life Design is to be an active agent in the career process, embracing ambiguity and failure and working experimentally and optimistically to design a meaningful career and life.
First-year students will encounter life design ideas through orientation, success coaching, advising, and select courses.
How will life design look on campus?
- Beginning Our New Direction (B.O.N.D.)
This transition program for students from historically underrepresented and underserved communities focuses on community building and goal setting for a successful adjustment to the university setting. - First-Year Advising
Advisors trained in a proactive advising approach provide early, frequent, and holistic advising for post-graduate goal-setting and (co)curricular planning. - Student Success Coaching Groups
Coaches and peer mentors equipped with customized Life Design training help new Longwood students clarify their purpose, identities, and goals. - Civitae and Major Courses
Through a competitive grant program, instructors work with a course development coach to create a new course or retool an existing one with Life Design content.

Practice Career Everywhere
To Practice Career Everywhere recognizes that career education is everyone’s business, a collective and communal effort to prepare students for a new world of work.
Longwood students can practice career skills through existing campus activities and new initiatives like micro-internships and graduate program immersion days.
How will practicing career skills look on campus?
- Virtual Micro-Internship
In this application-based program, sophomores spend winter intersession completing short-term projects with alumni supervisors. - Student Employment
Trained supervisors of on-campus student employees provide constructive feedback and create opportunities for students to articulate connections between employment experience and long-term goals. - Longwood Graduate Program Immersion Day
Networking with graduate students, faculty, and alumni, current Longwood juniors experience a day-in-the-life and get inside tips for creating a competitive graduate school application. - Symposium Day and Student Showcase for Research & Creative Inquiry
Through purposeful reflection, students develop professional documents that effectively communicate significant learning experiences from the major and Civitae Core Curriculum.
For more information
Contact the QEP Leadership Team or Advisory Board members.
QEP Leadership Team
Dr. Sarai Blincoe (QEP Lead)
blincoesc@longwood.edu
Academic Affairs
Mr. Quincy Goodine (QEP Co-Lead)
goodineqa@longwood.edu
Student Affairs
Mr. Waleed Ahmed (QEP Co-Lead)
ahmedwm@longwood.edu
Strategic Operations
QEP Advisory Board
- Max Feuti
feutiml@longwood.edu
Office of the Registrar - Elise Green
greenea4@longwood.edu
English & Modern Languages - Elizabeth Narehood
narehoodem@longwood.edu
Alumni & Career Services - Julie Ramsey
ramseyjw@longwood.edu
Student Engagement