Pre QEP

Identify and engage students and student organizations in program development for the QEP.

Develop draft of student learning outcomes for public speaking.

Develop draft of rubrics to assess the QEP speaking (SP) courses.

Develop draft description of the components of a Speaking (SP) course.

Faculty

Select a Brown Foundation Fellow (six-month visiting position in Rhetoric) to assist with QEP development.

Brown Foundation Fellow to provide fora for faculty to discuss the significance of rhetoric and speaking skills in the liberal arts tradition (series of three talks).

Conduct faculty training workshops on the teaching and assessment of public speaking skills.

Infrastructure

Select a location for the Center for Speaking and Listening.

Conduct search to hire director of the Center for Speaking and Listening and Professor of Rhetoric to begin in Fall 2016.

Overall QEP

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