Meet the Office of the QEP Staff
Troy Priest
Director of the QEP
(931) 221-7045
Miller Hall, 221
priestt@apsu.edu
Troy Priest is the Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at Austin Peay State University. Troy has over 20 years of teaching and administrative experience in higher education. He has taught and worked in universities in the United States, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. His professional experience includes creating and evaluating faculty development programs, curricular development and assessment, communities of practice, and leading institutional pedagogical research projects.
He has an MA in applied linguistics from the University of Louisville, a postgraduate certificate from the University of British Columbia in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership, and is currently a PhD doctoral candidate in the Higher Education Research, Evaluation, and Enhancement program at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
Cherylle Ward
Office Supervisor
(931) 221-6760
Miller Hall, 219
wardca@apsu.edu
Cherylle Ward is a United States Army Veteran, from Columbus, Ohio, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Studies from Austin Peay State University. Her professional career in higher education began at Central Texas Community College, located in Killeen, Texas, where she held the position of Office Specialist II.
She began her career at Austin Peay State University, January of 2005, where she has maintained numerous positions, in different departments, such as; Administrative Assistant II in the Advisement Center for Undeclared students as well as Academic Support Center and a Registration Clerk in the Office of the Registrar. Cherylle now maintains the position of Office Supervisor, for the Offices of the Quality Enhancement Plan, Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment as well as Decision Support and Institutional Research.