LEAP Campus Toolkit

A handout that provides students (and teachers) with ideas of how high-quality reflective writing can enhance assignments. It includes sample reflection prompts and a list of tips for writing reflectively.

A concise flyer outlining learning outcomes and assignments to appear on student general education ePortfolios. Also included are sample instructional videos to help engage students with the task.

A brief introduction to high-impact practices and their potentially transformative impact on student learning.

An institution-wide design for mentored undergraduate research that is scaffolded across the entire student experience.

A concise summary of the impact of service learning on all stakeholders, as well as a commentary on the balance between “service” and “learning” for any program.

Resources to locate and expand democratically engaged teaching and learning across campus, including syllabi, conceptual frameworks, and a guide for launching efforts at your institution.

A tool for facilitating research that connects faculty with colleagues engaged in similar work across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Search results are presented as a dynamic web that shows interconnections.

This brief narrative presents three core principles for effective living-learning programs, as well as a case study that demonstrates these principles in action.

Model ePortfolios from students in the interdisciplinary Freshman Inquiry program at Portland State University.

A narrative on using first-generation student data to make undergraduate research more equitably accessible and more intentionally designed.

Case study for acting on data to “make excellence inclusive.” Outlines changes to first-year programs and writing instruction at SJSU.

CSU, Chico has integrated civic learning into the first year to increase engagement and democratic awareness for all students, including those historically underserved.

A case study for gathering, analyzing, and acting upon disaggregated data to increase underserved student achievement.

Using NSSE and persistence data, this research report examines impact of multiple HIPs on student success, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and Pell status.

Issue of Diversity & Democracy on how institutions use high-impact practices to recreate themselves for inclusive excellence.

A free electronic monograph providing examples of undergraduate research programs as well as recommendations for next steps for community colleges.

First-year practices to support student achievement, including an innovative, cost-effective new design. Includes templates for administering similar programs.

Diagrams the interconnection between high-impact practices, student engagement, and success. Service learning acts as an example.

Presentation of strategy and some results of a survey on student reflection.

Monograph excerpt that maps practices to learning outcomes and presents data on how underserved students benefit.

Free PDF publications on service learning for community colleges and their community partners.

A vision and practice of hip hop as a path to critical literacy for students.

Student learning opportunities and pedagogical framing offered through a visual, streamlined website .

Rubric for evaluating student participation and reflection on an internship experience. Developed by SOU as part of the Compass Project.

Excerpt from an AAC&U publication presenting research on first-year seminars, capstones, learning communities, service learning, and undergraduate research.