
During Academic Year 2024-2025, Pablo Avila, Ellen Quish, Leigh Garrison-Fletcher and J. Elizabeth Clark focused on the implementation of First-Year Experience and ePortfolios as established High Impact Practices at LaGuardia Community College. The particular focus of their inquiry was how faculty and staff engage and employ HIPs. They co-hosted a variety of events throughout the year. Resources from those events appear below.
Leigh Garrison-Fletcher and J. Elizabeth Clark: Summative Presentation on HIPs in 2024-2025 at LaGuardia. Presentation to Instructional Staff on 9 May 2025
First-Year Experience Events

First-Year Seminar: Faculty Voices Film
First-Year Events For Faculty and Staff
- Fall 24: Looking Forward and Reflecting on 10 years of the First-Year Seminar
- Spring 25 First-Year Experience: An Opportunity to Frame the College Experience
- Spring 25 First-Year Experience Exchange


ePortfolio Events
Fall 2024 High Impact Practices Survey
Starter Conversation: HIPs and ePortfolio: “High Impact Practices: Engaging ePortfolios Beyond Assessment”(October 2024)
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mngQ05iw4Ovfs2GbAEHfDw_ENKPIYGd-hWWny0PNp80/edit?usp=sharing
Retro ePortfolio: A Look at the Start of ePortfolio: When and Where and Why (January 2025)
ePortfolio 3.0: Choose Your Own Adventure (February 2025)

Planning Committee: Caterina Almendral, Pablo Avila, J. Elizabeth Clark, John Collins, Michele de Goeas-Malone, Jasmine Edwards, Kristina Graham, Tonya Hendrix, Eric Hofmann
Agenda:
Student Panel
Scenarios in how “not” to do ePortfolio
Concurrent Sessions on ePortfolio and…
- Global Learning
- Integrative Learning
- High Impact Practices
Concurrent Hands On Sessions:
- Build Your Own eP
- Using the Assignment Feature
- ePortfolio Design Studio
Shared Presentations and Files from the Event: