High-Impact Practices (HIPs) Tool for Admins

Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe This tool is a reflective guide for administrators who are interested in supporting high-impact practices on their campuses. Administrators can help champion and create supportive infrastructure, policies and rewards that are necessary for implementation, sustainability and scaling of high-impact practices on college and university campuses. For more about this tool, read “Support for High-Impact Practices: A […]

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Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate

Adrianna Kezar and Sharon Fries-Britt (2018) Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate is a multi-year study focused on responses to campus racial crises and building institutional capacity for racial equity. The study is a collaboration between the Pullias Center, the American Council on Education (ACE), and the University of Missouri. This report explores what led to the University of Missouri’s […]

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Cultivating strategic innovation in higher education

William Tierney and Michael Lanford (2016) A TIAA Institute report that argues three conditions are crucial for promoting an organizational climate that fosters strategic innovation: diversity of people, proficiencies and opinions; intrinsic motivation rather than external rewards; and autonomy of the individuals working to effect an institution’s mission. Categories: Institutional Culture

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