HIPS TEST Attributes

Criteria.

A HIP Course must be identified as one of the following types:

• first-year seminars and experiences
• common intellectual experiences
• learning communities
• writing-intensive courses
• collaborative assignments and projects
• undergraduate research
• diversity/global learning
• E-portfolios
• service learning, community-based learning
• internships
• capstone courses and projects.

AND

Must utilize at least one of the following pedagogical practices as defined by AAC&U:

• Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels
• Significant investment of time and effort by students over an extended period of time
• Interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters
• Experiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that
• differ from those with which students are familiar
• Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback

SERVICE LEARNING

1. Required student participation in service projects or community engagement activities on or off campus, and
2. The service component is integrated into the course content (learning objectives), and
3. Student reflection is incorporated to help students connect what they learned through their service with the course learning objectives, and
4. State the number of hours of service/community engagement

Examples.

Develop a marketing plan for a non-profit

Provide financial planning, spending, and saving education to middle schoolers

Generate a food bank and sharing process for college students

Conduct a needs assessment for a local public school, business, or non-profit

Provide health care center with educational pamphlets about infant and maternal nutrition in the post-partum phase of development