Program to Evaluate and Enhance Quality

UW-Eau Claire Centennial Plan

Centennial Plan Goal Summary

UW-Eau Claire Mission Statement

The UW-Eau Claire “Transforming Our Future” Centennial Plan sets a bold vision for us to become the premier undergraduate learning community in the Upper Midwest, noted for rigorous, integrated, globally infused, undergraduate liberal education, and distinctive, select graduate programs. For that to happen, we must assess where we are now so that we can focus our efforts for the future. In fact, because our resources are already stretched quite thin – and the current economic climate will likely produce new State budget shortfalls – we can’t develop new campus initiatives without giving up some of the things we already do. We simply do not have the resources or the personnel to keep adding to our collective load. The PEEQ (Program to Evaluate and Enhance Quality) effort is about setting campus priorities and making intentional choices about what work we will take on and what we will let go.  PEEQ is our implementation of the Centennial Plan’s charge to “conduct a comprehensive program and services review to strengthen liberal education and concentrate resources on our priorities” (Goal 6 priority; Centennial Plan page 16).  That plan asks us to act on this now and “conduct a transparent, collaborative, comprehensive review of all campus programs and services, based on national and local standards, to inform the development of divisional plans” (Centennial Plan page 19).

We can make the right choices with a thoughtful, data-informed analysis of where we are, followed by careful planning and prioritizing about where we want to go.  Combined with a new budget process, PEEQ and the information it provides to us will help us establish priorities, compare the effectiveness of current university activities, and support initiatives that are clearly linked to the long-term goals of The Centennial Plan.