QEP Steering Committee
Dr. Abby Baker
QEP Director
Phone: 864-656-1410
Email: bakera@clemson.edu
Dr. Abby Baker serves as the 2023 QEP Director. Baker is a two-time graduate of Clemson (’15, ’21) and has always been intrigued by learning that happens in “the margins”. This interest fueled her interest to pursue a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences, where her dissertation examined student perspectives on using university makerspaces and documenting the types of learning that occurred. While in graduate school, Baker co-founded a nonprofit, Holly Springs Center, in her hometown that gave new purpose to her former elementary school to include a play-based preschool, arts and cultural classes, and a community center for the local residents. Baker served as the Executive Director at Holly Springs Center for six years (’16 – ’21). Meanwhile, Baker worked within the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Clemson for the last six years in various supporting roles of Institutional Accreditation and Assessment efforts. Baker’s course, Youth & Technology in the PRTM department at Clemson, encourages students to explore current uses of technology by youth and how that engagement influences their own development and the world around them.
Kayla Payne
Co-Chair, Assessment + Research
Phone: 864-656-3225
Email: ksteel2@clemson.edu
Kayla is the co-chair of the QEP Assessment + Research committee and the CAFLS Chief of Staff. As CAFLS Chief of Staff, Payne's duties are college-wide and include: assisting the Dean with developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining College strategic initiatives; serving as strategic advisor and counsel to the Dean; assuming day-to-day responsibility for projects and tasks; creating and maintaining cross-departmental/unit relationships to enable leadership success; and taking the strategic lead on high-profile projects.
Dr. Brian Dominy
Co-Chair, Assessment + Research
Phone: 864-656-7702
Email: dominy@clemson.edu
Chris Wood
Chair, Resources
Phone: 864-656-0772
Email: wood6@clemson.edu
Chris Wood is the chair of the QEP resources committee and currently serves as the senior financial analyst for the office of the provost. Wood prepares detailed and high level reports and analysis at the request of the Associate Vice President for Academic Finance and Operations, Provost and other Senior Administration. Analysis areas include academic hiring, academic budgets, special programs, university lab and classroom fees, graduate tuition, grants within the Provost area as well as serving as the Academic Affairs representative to the Student Fee Committee, University Vending Committee, and other committees as requested. Wood also serves at the College/Division Post Award Grant contact for the Provost and Academic Affairs.
Zack Flathmann
Co-Chair, Reporting, Compliance, Marketing, and Communication
Phone: 864-656-2000
Email: zflathm@clemson.edu
Zack Flathmann is the co-chair of the QEP Reporting, Compliance, Marketing, and Communication committee and the interim Director of Business Intelligence. As the interim Director of Business Intelligence, Flathmann's duties are focused within the Finance and Operations (F&O) department of the University. There, he works with Clemson's CFO and Executive Vice President of F&O to ensure that the University appropriately manages its finances, business strategy, and enterprise risk. Flathmann has an extensive background in Marketing for various corporate businesses and has served as a co-instructor of the Creative Inquiry team assembled to develop a QEP marketing strategy for our student audiences. Finally, Flathmann has taught many leisure skill courses for the PRTM department, where EL is the core pedagogy of instruction.
Ashley Fisk
Co-Chair, Reporting, Compliance, Marketing, and Communication
Phone: 864-656-5417
Email: cowden2@clemson.edu
Ashley Fisk is the QEP co-chair of the Reporting, Compliance, Marketing, and Communication committee and has been teaching in the English department since 2003. In 2010 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer, and in 2022 she was promoted to Principal Lecturer. Her teaching philosophy involves active learning, rhetorical problem-solving, and collaboration. Professor Fisk wants to engage her students in meaningful writing projects to help facilitate the transfer of skills to workplace situations and other courses. Her classes are student-centered where her students shape the project, giving them more ownership over the process. Professor Fisk's classes have completed around 200 client projects. She teaches 1030, 3040, 3150, and 4990.
