SIGMAA IBL September Watch Party: Inquiry at the Intersection: IBL as the Engine of High-Impact Practices

The AACU's High Impact Practices — first-year seminars, study abroad, internships, capstones — are increasingly tied to institutional priorities and assessment tools like NSSE. But what makes them high impact? We'd argue its inquiry: the same collaborative problem solving, productive struggle, and student-centered design that IBL practitioners already know and use. In this session we'll explore how IBL maps onto the HIP framework, look at some examples from mathematics, and discuss how making this alignment explicit can help departments advocate for resources and support. Then we want to hear from you. We'll close with a community discussion and the beginning of a collective effort to gather short vignettes that capture IBL in action — especially where it connects to High-Impact Practices. Come ready to share your own stories and examples. Speaker Bio: Vicky Klima is Associate Vice Provost for the Honors College and a professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University. She chairs the High-Impact Practices Working Group within the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America. Her teaching has become increasingly inquiry based over the years, and she is especially interested in helping students experience mathematics as something to explore rather than memorize. Through her work in Honors, she now gets to think about inquiry across disciplines and is curious about how these ideas show up in High-Impact Practices like research, internships, and capstones.