Development Opportunities

AAC&U 2012 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success

Sponsored by: AAC&U
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - Saturday, June 23, 2012
Registration Deadline: March 1, 2012
Location: Portland State University Portland, Oregon

About the Institute
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success—formerly the Greater Expectations Institute—is designed to help campuses develop intentional and integrative plans to strengthen student learning and student success. The institute curriculum emphasizes high-impact practices and campus-wide strategies that are engaging to students and effective at improving both persistence and achievement of essential learning outcomes. Foregrounding intercultural competence and the success of students who have historically been underserved, the program is attentive to the nation’s evolving demographics, to diversity, equity, and quality of learning. The curriculum reflects the latest research on practices that help all students to complete their degrees—connecting high-impact learning intentionally to student success. It builds on research suggesting that all students benefit from high-impact practices and that less-advantaged students benefit even more than do traditionally advantaged students when they participate in high-impact practices.

The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student success is designed to help campus, system, or regional collaborative teams (faculty, student affairs professionals, institutional leaders, students). The institute curriculum addresses the challenge of leading for change in an era of austerity. It offers innovative models for program implementation and assessment. The program will be of particular interest to campus- or system-wide cross-functional teams working on programmatic curricular and co-curricular change, assessment of new or existing programs or practices, or development of effective institutional collaborations. The institute is also ideal for teams working on accreditation.
Institute Tracks

The 2012 Institute provides in-depth study, analysis, and resources in four tracks:

• High-Impact Learning: Making intentional approaches to engaged learning; deepening and enhancing existing high-impact practices, including activities in and beyond the classroom
• Useful Evidence: Assessing high-impact practices; new ways of recognizing and gauging learning that demonstrate liberal education outcomes; equity in student learning; qualitative and quantitative data analysis for institutional change
• Designs for Student Success: Planning campus-wide approaches that emphasize liberal education outcomes and integrative learning across academic and student affairs; developing new definitions and programmatic designs for student success
• Leadership development: Fostering reflective practice to change campus culture and prompt collaboration for student success; leadership to make excellence inclusive; attention to cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and degree attainment

Who Should Attend
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is designed to help campus, system, or regional collaborative teams (faculty, student affairs professionals, institutional leaders) develop intentional high-impact programs and coordinated strategies for student success—programs and strategies that are engaging to students and effective at improving both persistence and essential learning outcomes, with particular benefit to students historically underserved by higher education.

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