ECU Data Retreat 2024

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ECU 2024 Data Retreat

 

Focus topic: High Impact Practice data

Planning committee: Beth Dawson, Kristen Dreyfus, Bevley Green, Greg Harris, Beverly King, Tuan Tran

Date: March 18, 2024

Location: AHEC building, 2600 West Arlington Blvd., Room A

Keynote speaker:  Dr. Robin Coger, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, ECU

 

Background for retreat

  • There is evidence of significant educational benefits for students who participate in these high impact practices. They are positively associated with student learning and with student retention.
  • Some of the more common HIPs are: First-year seminars & experiences, Culminating experiences/Capstone courses, Service or Community-based learning, Undergraduate research, Writing-intensive courses, Learning & Living/Learning communities, Internships or field experience, Diversity/Global learning, and Study abroad.

Guiding Questions

  • What HIPs are happening in your unit (office, department, college)?
  • What HIPs would you like to have in your unit that aren’t in place currently?
  • What is being done to implement and assess new HIPs in your unit? Are you getting student feedback on HIPs to improve current offerings?
  • How are faculty and students made aware of HIPs in your unit?
  • Who are the key points of contact to collect data on HIPs?
  • What kind of questions are being asked in grant proposals related to HIPs and how can IPAR assist in helping grant writers respond?

Expected Outcomes; Following the retreat,

  • Attendees will have a better understanding of what High Impact Practices are and why they are important.
  • Attendees will leave more knowledgeable about what is happening (and what is not happening) on campus re High Impact Practices.
  • Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how HIP data are collected, what processes need to be improved for accurate tracking, and the importance of centralized data collection.
  • Attendees will have a greater awareness of how HIPs can be implemented/assessed if used as metrics in a college or unit strategic plan.

General areas identified for further action

  • High Impact Practice definitions, outcomes, & measurements
  • Inventory of systems used to record/store HIP data at ECU
  • Course designations for courses/course sections involving High Impact Practices
  • Data quality of High Impact Practice data used for ECU strategic plan metrics

For more information on the ECU Data Retreat, click ECU Data Retreat.