Student Leadership Posts

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March 14, 2025

Equity in Student Leadership Opportunities    

by Kate Campbell 

Peer leadership opportunities are not formally recognized as a High Impact Practice (HIP) by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U); however, peer leadership has been described as a candidate for a next-generation HIP (Kuh 2017). In a previous…

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March 7, 2025

Student Leadership in Higher Education 

by Amanda Dorsey 

Student leadership programs in higher education often promise to shape future leaders, but how well do they deliver on this promise? While leadership development programs are widely implemented in colleges and universities, scholars and practitioners continue to debate their definitions,…

February 28, 2025

Is Leadership a High-Impact Practice?

by Kate Campbell

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has defined high impact practices (HIPs) as experiences that promote student success which is determined by academic achievement, persistence, satisfaction, attainment of educational objectives, and acquisition of desired learning outcomes (Kuh 2017)….