Hello UWindsor!
The Provost’s Question of the Month – for this month’s chance at that luxurious, stylish hoodie – is about “high-impact practices”:
High-Impact Practices are educational activities that inspire deep involvement and create meaningful collaboration and interaction with others. Things like:
- Being part of a learning community or some other formal program where groups of students take two or more classes together
- Taking courses that include a community-based project (service-learning)
- Working with a faculty member on a research project
- Internships, co-ops, field experiences, student teaching, or clinical placements
- Studying abroad
- Undertaking a culminating senior experience (like capstone courses, senior project or thesis, comprehensive exam, portfolio, etc.)
(See http://nsse.indiana.edu/html/high_impact_practices.cfm).
How many of the above high-impact practices have you participated in while at the University of Windsor, and which have been the most engaging and rewarding? Why?
Email your response to vpacademic@uwindsor.ca
Deadline: January 31, 2017
Why are we asking?
In the next few months, UWindsor students will take part in the National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE (pronounced “Nessie”), which invites first-year and final-year students to comment on their undergraduate experience, including involvement in HIPs. We use the information from NSSE to improve all aspects of students’ campus life and learning. Consider this the warm-up event!
The last time UWindsor participated in NSSE, a whopping 78% of responding fourth-year students had taken part in an HIP — we’d love to know more about what you get out of HIPs!
Stay tuned for more information about the NSSE survey, and about incentives for participating. The more we learn from you, the more we can do to foster your engagement and your success, both personal and academic.
Keep in mind that T4As will be available to students electronically through myUWindsor.
This convenient and secure option will allow you to print and re-print your T4A wherever and whenever you like with no waiting, no time lost in the mail, and accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for as long as you have access to myUWindsor.
Students who would like the new electronic option must provide their consent by Feb. 20th. To provide consent, please log into your myUWindsor account and check the box under “Online Tax Document Consent”.
All students will get their T4A mailed to their home address by default unless they indicate otherwise.
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