High Impact Practices (HIPS)

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High Impact Practices (HIPs) are evidence-based teaching and learning practices that support deeper learning and engagement in students. They have proven to be particularly beneficial for students from historically underserved populations in the following areas:

  • Persistence and GPA
  • Deep approaches to learning
  • Higher rates of student – faculty interaction
  • Improved critical thinking and writing skills
  • Greater appreciation for diversity
  • Higher student engagement overall

The Center for Engaged Learning currently focuses on service learning, undergraduate research, internships, and study abroad. Two of Mercer’s banner programs, Mercer on Mission (study abroad, service learning, and undergraduate research) and Research that Reaches Out (service/community-based learning and undergraduate research), combine multiple HIPs to create unique, rewarding learning experiences for students.

Click on the links below to learn more about specific HIPs at Mercer.

A college students demonstrates a health device to a young boy while two adults stand by and watch. Image is a button link to the Service Learning subpage.
Several adults stand in a semicircle around two children sitting in a battery-operated ride-on car. Two of the adults lean over the children as if to give instruction or make adjustment. Image is a button link to the Research that Reaches Out subpage.
Image of three adults standing and looking at an old ledger in an archive room with shelves full of old documents. The image is a button link to the Undergraduate Research subpage.

 

A female student wearing business attire sits in an office chair at a wooden desk and types on a laptop. Image is a button link to the Internships subpage.
Three college students sit on the floor listening to an older woman, who sits in a chair and holds a booklet. Image is a button link to the Mercer On Mission subpage.