In Fall 2017, the Kirwan Center assembled a leadership team made up of representatives from four USM institutions to help advance system-wide efforts to scale, sustain, and assess High-Impact Practices (HIPs). The team will spend a year building capacity within its institutions to track student participation in HIPs, adapt and use emerging quality frameworks associated with HIPs, and assess the individual and cumulative impact of HIPs on student retention/progression/completion and on student learning.

Each of the institutional leaders formed teams in Spring 2018 to conduct an inventory of existing HIPs at their institutions using a common matrix, which will help determine areas to target capacity building efforts going forward.

In undertaking this work, the Kirwan Center hopes to catalyze a set of lead institutions in advancing their own HIPs efforts while also positioning them to serve as models for other institutions within the System and across the country in scaling, sustaining, and assessing high-quality HIPs.

Participating institutions:

• Bowie State University
• Coppin State University
• Salisbury University
• University of Baltimore