Background image of three Elon student orientation leaders smiling looking at the camera. Maroon to transparent gradient covering the bottom half. White quoted text reads: "Since peer leadership is a potential high impact practice and has positive impacts in student development, it is important that the equity of these opportunities is evaluated and discussed."

Equity in Student Leadership Opportunities    

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…

Is Leadership a High-Impact Practice?

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)….