Unrealized Potential: Building Paid Student Fellows to Incorporate High-Impact Practices

In recent years, partnering nonprofit organizations, campuses, and Federal Work-Study funds have paid thousands of students on campuses across the country to engage their peers in nonpartisan voter education and mobilization. These opportunities have the potential to constitute high-impact practices and build career competencies, but recent research shows most fellowships lack an assessment of student learning, an intentional connection to disciplinary content, or purposeful embedding of career skills. In this session, presenters will share recent research and discuss recommendations for designing programs that integrate direct learning assessments, connecting common voter education and mobilization practices with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) career competencies and AAC&U VALUE Rubrics.