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Welcome to the first annual CWU Summer

Institute on High Impact Practices (HIPs)

June 21st and 28th, 2013Wellington Event Center

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Current High Impact Practice Team

Stuart Boersma: Professional Development Coordinator, Mathematics.

Kandee Cleary: Director of Diversity and Inclusivity, and Sociology (chair).

George Drake: English (chair), Writing Across the Curriculum Committee.

Kara Gabriel: Director of Undergraduate Research, Psychology.

Jenna Hyatt: Director of Residence Life & New Student Programs.

Vicki Sannuto: Director of Career Services.

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Attendance at past AAC&U conferencesSupport from the Provost’s OfficeNew Professional Development Coordinator

Why a Summer Institute on HIP?

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Retention ratesD/F/W(5/6 year

graduation rates)

We all have the same goal: Student Success

But how do we measure it?

• Credit to degree• Career/grad sc.

placement• Student Learning

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How does the state measure student success?

• Graduation rate? Washington state’s public institutions produce degrees at the 3rd-lowest total cost in the nation while having the best 6-year graduation rate (Office of Financial Management, WA).

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• Each WA public campus is above the national average in freshman retention and all but EWU bested the national average in time-to-degree.

• “CWU projects an increase in degree production due to two new strategies aimed at retaining students: a dual-admissions pilot program, and an on-line course alternative” (2012 Baccalaureate Performance Plans – Statewide Context, Office of Financial Management, WA)

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Unfortunately, CWU graduation rates vary across ethnicities

6 Year Grad Rate

2005-2006 cohorts

5 Year Grad Rate

2005-2007 cohorts

4 Year Grad Rate

2005-2008 cohorts

Asian 41.4% 39.2% 18.0%

Black 31.6% 25.9% 10.6%

CAMP Hispanic

67.9% 49.3% 19.1%

Non-CAMP Hispanic

48.7% 41.4% 20.8%

MultiEthnic

51.0% 41.3% 22.2%

Native American

72.2% 62.1% 13.2%

White 56.0% 49.9% 27.9%

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Can we help those at risk even in the face of increased enrollments…

• 72.5% of full-time CWU undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid (average amount is $7,526)

• What can we do to make their students’ time at CWU successful?

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Investing time and effort.Interacting with faculty and peers about

substantive matters.Experiencing diversity.Responding to more frequent feedback.Reflecting and integrating learning.Discovering relevance of learning through

real-world applications.

Positive Student Behaviors – “Educationally Purposeful Activities” (NSSE):

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Frequent feedback to students.

Active learning.Increased student

engagement.Inquiry-based

approaches to learning.

Collaborative experiences.

High Impact Practices increase positive student behaviors by using:

Single multidimensional experience: HIP

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Increasing student engagement in educationally purposeful activities through High Impact Practices helps some students more than others….

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What Are Central Students Already Doing (NSSE Report 2012)?

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Create Engaged and Supportive CommunityInvolve Students in Purposeful LearningConnect Learning with Larger Questions

and Real-World SettingsRequire Higher Order Inquiry, Exploration and

Problem-SolvingEngage Diversity as a Resource for Learning

Why Do HIPs Work?

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Set appropriate expectations.Public Demonstration of

results/accomplishmentsAllow students to synthesize and integrate their

learning.Reflective essay.Require purposeful effort

Activities demand that students devote considerable time and effort to purposeful tasks.

Require daily decisions that deepen students’ investment in the activity.

High Impact Practices Need to be Done Well

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Build RelationshipsActivities demand that students interact with

faculty and peers over a period of time.Provide rich and frequent feedbackHIPs need to be continually evaluated:

Assessment should be built into each HIP.What are the documented benefits?Who is benefiting?

Intentionality and ConnectionsScaffold: 1st year/ middle years / capstone

High Impact Practices Need to be Done Well

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First Year Seminars and ExperiencesCommon Intellectual ExperiencesLearning CommunitiesWriting-Intensive CoursesCollaborative Assignments and ProjectsUndergraduate ResearchDiversity/Global LearningService Learning, Community-Based LearningInternshipsCapstone Courses and Projects

What Do We Do? What Could We Do?

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Think outside the box!Form/Strengthen partnerships between units:

Librarians University Housing and Residence Hall Coordinators Faculty Academic Advisors Career Counselors Graduate Assistants Department Secretaries Administrators Student Transitions and Academic Resources (STAR) Douglas Honors College (DHC) Study Abroad Disability Services Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement

We Invite You To

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Group Discussions HIPs and CWU

Presentations What are HIPs and Why we Care about them Collaborating Across Units at CWU Developing an Intentional Undergraduate Program Writing in Learning Communities Building a Community for Diverse Students

Mixed Doubles Lunch Making HIPs successful at CWU

Birds of a Feather Lunch Intentionality and CWU

Individual/Team Time Work on your own ideas/projects/partnerships

Today and Next Friday

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It is up to us!A handful of dedicated individualsA few dynamic teamsA couple of innovative partnershipsKUDZU!

HIP Central Learning Community (HIP CLiCk)?

What else can we – as active and dedicated members of the campus community – do to support HIPs???

Next Fall and Beyond…