The High Impact Practices Advisory Group is no longer active. However, during the active years of our Experience Learning QEP it played a key role in helping the university implement, grow, and assess a successful QEP.
Background
The term, “High Impact Practices,” comes from the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ definition of high impact education practices, as supported by the research of Dr. George Kuh. At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, our Experience Learning initiative overlapped with many of the high-touted, researched, and supported educational practices that have been proven to increase retention, strengthen persistence towards graduation, and grow graduation rates of students across the United States and beyond. Our QEP was rooted in these opportunities, and in collaboration with the offices, units, and centers below, we sought to ensure that our students became more successful by participating in these educational opportunities.
Purpose
The purpose of the Experience Learning High Impact Practices (H.I.P.) Advisory Group was:
- to increase access for more students to participate in high impact practices,
- to create and support faculty development opportunities for UT faculty and staff who teach using high impact practices in their classrooms and other educational experiences, and
- to work together to form a coalition of collaboration amongst campus offices and units at UT in order to support the growth of high impact practices on our campus.
Membership
The HIP Group comprised members from departments across the university charged with providing high-impact opportunities to our students. The group began during the spring semester in 2016 and actively met through the spring semester of 2022. Our QEP would not have been successful without these and other colleagues at UT. The list below identifies the members of the group during its active period, and their affiliations at that time.
Member Name | Campus Office/Center/Unit | University Division |
Jennifer Gramling | Online Learning & Academic Programs | Academic Affairs |
Michael Saenz |
Programs Abroad Office | Academic Affairs |
Mandie Beeler | Center for Leadership & Service Office | Student Life |
Stephanie Kit | Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration | Student Life |
Jessica Osborne |
First Year Programs | Academic Affairs |
Clayton Alexander | Office of Admissions/Enrollment Management | Academic Affairs |
Anna Sandelli | University Libraries | Academic Affairs |
Toni Jackson | Academic Success Center | Academic Affairs |
Andrew Seidler | Office of Undergraduate Research & Fellowships | Academic Affairs |
Rebekah Page | Honors & Scholars Programs | Academic Affairs |
Brent Lamons | Academic Advising | Academic Affairs |
NaQuaina Moore | Office of Multicultural Student Life | Student Life |
Mark Willoughby | Office of Student Engagement, Haslam College of Business |
Haslam College of Business, Academic Affairs |
Nicole Bryant | Office of Community Engagement & Outreach | Diversity & Engagement |
Molly Sullivan | Office of the University Registrar | Enrollment Management |
Chris Lavan | Teaching & Learning Innovation | Academic Affairs |
Wes Romeiser | Teaching & Learning Innovation | Academic Affairs |
Virginia Stormer * | Teaching & Learning Innovation | Academic Affairs |