The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is committed to teaching a diverse community of students to become the next generation of leaders. To prepare undergraduates to improve society and help solve the world’s greatest problems, the University must continue to encourage best practices that promote an institutional culture of undergraduate student success while setting a national standard for degree attainment. To this end, High Impact Carolina will be a University-wide conference on High-Impact Practices (HIP). This interactive working-day will focus on recommendations from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) monograph, High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter.  The conference will feature talks from national experts, including Tia Brown McNair, Senior Director for Student Success in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at AAC&U, and Betsy O. Barefoot, Vice President for the John N. Gardner Institute.  

This conference will be a gathering of faculty and staff at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enhance our understanding of HIP at Carolina. In particular, participants will examine:

A.      What are HIP and how these opportunities influence student success, and

B.      Who has access to HIP at Carolina and what can be done to open access to all students, especially those less likely to persist, to participate in HIP.