High-Impact Practices: What’s All the Hype?

Abstract

Promising “high-impact” activities—including first-year seminars, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, service-learning, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, study abroad and other experiences with diversity, internships, and capstone courses and projects—have been recognized for their potential to enrich undergraduate education. In this session we’ll review what we’ve learned about these practices, how students benefit, and how institutions have emphasized the assessment of high-impact practices. Participants will explore their new HIP reports and consider ways to start conversations on campus around HIP practices.