“Provides direct experience in a work setting, related to career interests, supervised by mentor, coach, or professional in the field. Can be project, paper, or for credit. Includes cooperative education and part of experiential learning”Peters, ...
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High Impact Practice: Capstone courses and projects
“Culminating experiences at the end of the student’s college years, project, presentation, and report that integrates and applies what they learned throughout college”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Capstone courses provide students the ...
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High Impact Practice: First-year seminars and experiences
“First-year seminars or courses that promote critical thinking, writing, information literacy, collaborative learning and introduce students to campus life and infrastructure. Small groups of students with high faculty interaction”Peters, Tisdale, ...
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High Impact Practice: Undergraduate Research
“Engage students in discipline-specific research that promotes active learning and contributes to discussion, collaboration, presentations, and possibly publications”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Undergraduate research opportunities have ...
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High Impact Practice: Service Learning, Community-based Learning
“Field experiences with community partners give students direct experience with issues studied in class; real-world learning and reflect in classroom. Connected to the curriculum and part of experiential learning”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, ...
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High Impact Practice: Learning Communities
Adoption and implementation of high impact practices provides the best chance to effect positive change. Several practices have been shown to have a large impact on the success of students of color. In this blog, we will outline these ...
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