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  • Title:
    Diversity and Systemic Change: Instructors Transforming the Classroom through Innovative Collaborations
    Date:
    July 18, 2012
    Author:
    Jordan Landry, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Description:

    A narrative of community-building efforts that galvanized UW Oshkosh faculty and instructional staff to address the success of underserved students in their classrooms.

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  • Title:
    Components and Effects of Five High-Impact Practices
    Date:
    November 15, 2010
    Author:
    Jayne E. Brownell and Lynn E. Swaner
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    Organizing an Integrative First Year Experience
    Date:
    February 14, 2011
    Author:
    E. Marti, S. Curtis, M. Cuomo
    Description:

    Power Point of Queensborough Community College’s Freshman Academies Initiative.

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  • Title:
    First-Year Strategies and Templates for High-Impact Practices
    Date:
    March 31, 2011
    Author:
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    Diversity & Democracy: Rethinking Educational Practices to Make Excellence Inclusive
    Date:
    April 01, 2009
    Author:
    AAC&U
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    Using Data for Inclusive Excellence: Collection, Analysis, and Decision-Making
    Date:
    April 01, 2011
    Author:
    Gesele Durham and William Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    General Education/Residence Life Partnership: Impact on Student Success
    Date:
    May 02, 2011
    Author:
    Chris Carey and Rowanna Carpenter, Portland State University
    Description:

    A brief narrative on coordinating the use of data to improve the success of first-year living learning communities.

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  • Title:
    Public Sphere Pedagogy: A High-Impact Practice
    Date:
    May 12, 2011
    Author:
    Thia Wolf, California State University, Chico
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    High-Impact Practices at San José State University
    Date:
    May 11, 2011
    Author:
    Sutee Sujitparapitaya
    Description:

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

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  • Title:
    First-Year ePortfolios: Highlights from Student Work at PSU
    Date:
    August 01, 2011
    Author:
    Students at Portland State University
    Description:

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

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