Unleash your library’s HIPster Transforming student library jobs into high impact practices Jill Markgraf Professor, Head of Research & Instruction McIntyre Library [email protected] 715-836-5357
Jul 15, 2015
Unleash your library’s HIPsterTransforming student library jobs into high impact practices
Jill MarkgrafProfessor, Head of Research & InstructionMcIntyre [email protected]
High Impact Practices“High-impact activities require
students to connect, reflect on, and integrate what they are
learning from their classes with other life experiences.”
– George Kuh, “Maybe Experience Really Can be the Best Teacher,” Chronicle of Higher Education
What students do in
High Impact Practices:• Apply knowledge to other
situations
• Perform purposeful tasks
• Use critical thinking to make decisions and solve problems
• Interact with people different from themselves
• Get feedback/mentoring
• Apply knowledge in new settings
• Perform purposeful tasks
• Use critical thinking to make decisions and solve problems
• Work well in teams—especially with people different from themselves
Employers wantgraduates who can:
Survey of Student
Employees
• 250 students from 2005-present
• 96 responses (38%)
• Baseline
High impact practice
Student work experience
Reflect
Connec
Librarians lead
from the middle
Extracurricular
FacultyStaff
Curricular
Develop intellectual and practical skills,
including, for example, inquiry and analysis,
critical and creative thinking, written and
oral communication, quantitative literacy,
information literacy, and teamwork and
problem solving.
Integrate learning across courses and
disciplines, and between campus and
community life.
Maximizing the Student Work experienceLearning community
Read articles and discussed topics including:
• Connection between jobs and liberal education goals
• Enhancing quality of the work experiences
• Supervisor as educator/mentor
Recommended Next steps:
Individual level• Revise student employee PDs• Clarify expectations and boundaries• Revise evaluation process to include reflection• Enhance training for students
Campus level• Create student supervision training workshops
Student Supervisor
Workshop Series
• Nuts & Bolts
• Maximizing the student work experience
• Leadership skills for supervisors of student employees
Workshop 1:
Nuts & Bolts
Supervisor as educator Liberal education learning goals Helping students connect
Workshop 2:
Maximizing the Student Work Experience
Enriching positions Employer perspective panel Conducting guided reflection
How is this job fitting in with your academics?
What are you learning here that’s helping you in school?
What are you learning in class that you can apply at work?
What are you learning that you’ll use in your chosen profession?
University of Iowa http://vp.studentlife.uiowa.edu/initiatives/grow/
Workshop 3:
Leadership Skills for Supervisors of
Student Employees
Leadership role as supervisor/educator/mentor
Leadership styles/Situational leadership
Giving Constructive Feedback
Bringing it home:
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Bringing it home
Assist at the Reference Desk by answering basic student reference questions…
Bringing it home
Assist students, faculty, staff and community members by answering basic to progressively complex reference questions, in person, by phone, chat…
Bringing it home
Contract:Clarify expectationsCommunicate values
Bringing it home
Enhanced training
Team building
Bringing it home
Performance reviews
Bringing it home
Expanding the model
Value of libraries
Student work
experience =
impact value
No (41%)
Have you enrolled in or considered library school?
Yes (59%)…before working in McIntyre Library?
notbefore(58%)
Yes (59%)
Liberal education
exposes student to
new ideas and
possibilities. The library student work experience does that.
Yes (59%)
NOW’s the time• Students incur more of the cost of their
education
• Fewer resources to maintain/increase traditional HIPs
• Increased competition
• Increased demand to demonstrate ROI
to recognize student work experience as high-impact practice