The High-Impact Community Engagement Practices As we complete this volume, we also embark on Year 2 of the Bonner High-Impact Initiative, a strategy through which colleges and universities are joining a national learning community to link engaged learning with community-driven practice. Each institution is bringing together faculty, partners, students, and staff to craft initiatives that scale and deepen highimpact practices (HIPs), tying them to community engagement. These teams are participating in long-range strategic planning, attending a summer institute during which they plan high-impact projects, and implementing innovative projects and curricula. In the first year of the initiative, nine institutions participated. Another nine institutions are joining in 2013, and a third cohort will join in 2014. Each commits to at least three years' involvement, after which the project will become a standing initiative of the Bonner Foundation and Network. The High-Impact Initiative leverages promising research about engaged learning presented in the Liberal Education and America's Promise Report and College Learning for the New Global Century , as well as subsequent publications High-Impact Educational Practices and Five High-Impact Practices. Moreover, the strategy aims to capture and spread best practices of community engagement, drawing on two decades of experience of programs connected to the Bonner Network that have collectively graduated more than 6,000 alumni, most from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds. As the Student Impact Survey and Alumni Survey suggested, the model of a multiyear, intensive, developmental experience in community engagement
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