Please join us for the Congdon School of Health Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Dr. Heather L. Hodges, DMin for her lecture “Leading for Innovation: How to Foster a Culture of Employee Creativity in Healthcare”. The event will be held on September 17th, 2025 in the Callicutt Life Skills Theater in Congdon School of Health Sciences from 4pm-5pm.
JSTOR eBook Collection – you now have access to the JSTOR eBook Collection. This collection of content resides on the JSTOR platform and provides access to 85,000 high quality academic eBooks.
Use the JSTOR link – https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/
Do a search for content. Click on the book link on the lefthand side of the screen. It indexes at the book chapter level providing you with an in-depth book search. This content is open access and can handle multiple users. All of the book titles with their digital access links have been added to the library catalog.
OverDrive Magazine collection – the OverDrive Magazine collection is on the same platform as your access to downloadable audio and eBooks. The magazine collection provides access to about 6,000 popular and news-oriented magazine titles and covers a three-year window.
Use the Overdrive Libby app to access the collection – https://hpulibraries.overdrive.com/
Endnote 2025 – The latest version of this citation management software is now available.
To access and download use the course reserve link (https://2123.on.worldcat.org/courseReserves/landing ) and search Endnote. Click the link and then follow the instructions to download and install this program. Need help? Use the Endnote library research guide for information on downloading and setting up EndNote information – https://guides.highpoint.edu/endnote21.
Faculty Services Page – Just follow this link if you want to see a list of the services that the library has to offer faculty. Services include – requesting books or other materials, requesting content from other libraries, requesting instruction, and workshops that the library is currently offering.
Click here: https://www.highpoint.edu/library/faculty-services/
You’re invited to an interactive faculty seminar on August 29th from 12-1 PM with Dr. Peter Felten – “Connections are everything: How relationships drive student success.” Dr. Felten is a professor of history, the executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, the assistant provost for teaching and learning at Elon University.
For more information about the seminar, Dr. Felten’s biography, and to register, please visit the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/0yztKP5VFF. Registration is limited to 70 seats. A boxed lunch will be provided.
Blackboard: Updates You Might Have Missed
Did You Know? You can add knowledge checks to documents, auto-generate discussions, and access a new student activity log? Sign up for our Blackboard Updates workshop to learn more!
Dates:
January 30th 2-3 PM (In-person)
February 3rd 2-3 PM (In-person)
February 13 10-11 AM (Virtual)
Instructional Design Workshop: Advanced Microsoft Copilot
Did You Know? You can summarize an email chain, create a project plan from multiple notes, and compare OneDrive documents with Microsoft Copilot? Sign up for our Advanced Copilot workshop to learn more!
Dates:
February 11 2-3 PM (In-person)
February 19 10-11 AM (In-person)
March 10 10-11 AM (In-person)
The IRS updated the standard mileage rates for 2025. Please see the link and summary below:
Beginning January 1, 2025, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups, or panel trucks) will be as follows:
- 70 cents per mile driven for business use, up 3 cents from 2024
- 21 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, no change from 2024
Enjoy our blogpost on the history of the marching band at High Point College. The narrative is very fun, and we have added pictures of bands from over the years as they performed on campus and at college athletic events. To view the post, you can visit the library home page, or you can copy and paste this link. We certainly hope that you enjoy it.
https://www.highpoint.edu/library/2024/11/07/marching-band-at-high-point-college-a-historical-narrative/
The post on the college marching band is one of our many historical narratives. Visit this link to view our other historical narratives.
https://www.highpoint.edu/library/category/archives/
GivePulse – Logging 1,000,000 Hours of Community Service
In celebration of the High Point University Centennial, the HPU Center for Community Engagement has set a goal of providing 1,000,000 hours of community service! To accomplish this goal, faculty, staff, and students are being asked to record community service hours using GivePulse.
Please see the message below from Kimberly Drye-Dancy, MS, Robert G. Culp Jr. Executive Director of the High Point University Center for Community Engagement, for more information.
Dear Faculty,
We are thrilled to introduce you to GivePulse, a platform that empowers our university family to make a positive impact in the greater High Point community. At High Point University, we have set a goal of logging 1,000,000 hours of community service on GivePulse by the end of 2024, and we invite you to join us on this journey. We are confident that as a college community, collectively, we are very close to our goal. We need your help to help track the community engagement of High Point University faculty, staff, and students. Please see below to learn how.
What is GivePulse?
GivePulse is a web-based platform and software solution designed to facilitate and manage community engagement and volunteer activities. It is commonly used by educational institutions, nonprofit
organizations, businesses, and communities to connect individuals and groups with volunteer opportunities and track their contributions to various causes.
GivePulse offers a range of features and tools to help organizations and volunteers. A few of the features are volunteer management, volunteer recruitment, and tracking and reporting analytics.
GivePulse is an excellent way for you to track your service in the High Point community as well as the student groups that you direct.
GivePulse will provide you with a free basic account. You can list unlimited opportunities, interact with volunteers, and assist with verification of attendance. To set up your account (which is like creating a Facebook page), go to https://highpoint.givepulse.com/group/create.
Our staff at the Center for Community Engagement is well-versed in GivePulse and will be more than happy to assist you and provide you with additional information about all the ways you can use this
amazing tool!
For questions on how to get your groups set up, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or concerns.
Now, let’s come together and make a difference in our community.
All the best,
Kimberly Drye-Dancy
Robert G. Culp, Jr. Executive Director
Center of Community Engagement
Writing Center consultants are kind, careful, and responsive readers for all High Point University writers (student, faculty, or staff) at any stage of the writing process. We help with everything from assignment comprehension to drafting to revising. However, we do not write or edit papers for clients. Instead, we work alongside them to develop strategies for improving their writing regarding their respective assignments, expectations, and writing needs/ styles. We see writing as both an individual process of learning and a life skill in need of cultivating and refining. We are trained student mentors who lead campus workshops and participate in professional conversations about writing all the while promoting critical thinking, self-sufficiency, and problem-solving in writing.
• We are available in a variety of locations and times across campus Monday through Friday. We also offer virtual appointments!
• Go to highpoint.mywconline.com to make an appointment. Appointments can only be made through this online portal.
• To learn more about us, visit highpoint.edu/english/writing-center or contact [email protected] and follow us on Instagram @hpuwritingcenter
• The Writing Center is directed by Dr. Justin Cook
Are you interested in cultivating human and ecological flourishing in the greater High Point area? Do you want to nourish the values, understanding, and relationships required for deep social change in pursuit of justice and the common good? If so, the Center for Community Engagement invites you to join the Service Learning Program. Let us show you all the ways you can get involved!
To learn more about Service Learning pedagogy and course design, please consider attending our service learning faculty workshop series next spring.
Each full time and adjunct faculty member receives a $500 Silvershein/Gutenstein Family Foundation Service Learning Grant upon completion of the workshop series. Once trained, faculty may teach any existing Service Learning course housed in their department. For those proposing a new Service Learning course, an additional $1500 grant is distributed after teaching that Service Learning course for the first time.
*Please Note: All Service Learning courses fulfill the undergraduate General Education Experiential Learning outcome automatically.
We also offer a Social Innovation Minor and a Service Learning Scholars certificate program for all interested undergraduates. Check out the Service Learning webpage for more information:
https://www.highpoint.edu/socialinnovation/
https://www.highpoint.edu/servicelearning/become-a-scholar/
Thank you for considering Service Learning! I’m available to chat over coffee, lunch in the Faculty Club on Wednesdays, or Wellness Yoga in the Wanek Cinema on Tuesdays. Please reach out with any questions.
Kimberly Drye-Dancy, Executive Director of Center for Community Engagement ([email protected])
The High Point University historical timeline is continuing to grow as we add images, links to narrative content, historical videos, postcards, and digital books. We presented the timeline several times during the homecoming weekend and were pleased with the reactions from alums. We think you will find it to be a very satisfying interface and you will gain a closer look at the history of a college which has become such a successful university.
Here is the link to the timeline and other archival content.
https://www.highpoint.edu/library/archives/
Once you are in the timeline, read about Joseph Flavius McCulloch, without whom the school would never have been founded. Or read about Little Miss Dorothy Practice House, a baby borrowed from an orphanage, who was tended by students in the Home Economic house located where Wanek now stands. And finally, enjoy the video “A College for Me?” with host Charlie Harvell and you have a glimpse of the campus circa 1965.
Let us know if you would like a staff member to do a session on High Point College/University history. A session takes about 30 to 45 minutes.
The University Historical Timeline.
Please enjoy the college and university historical timeline. The new timeline is an information tool to assist in our celebration of the centennial of the university.
Here is the link – https://www.highpoint.edu/library/high-point-university-centennial
Do you need materials for your class? Would your student benefit from access to an eBook or streaming film? Would you like to suggest the addition of a book or other content?
Use the faculty order form to request materials be added to the library collection. Use this link to input your request (order Faculty Materials) or send an email to your library liaison (Departmental Liaisons). https://www.highpoint.edu/library/faculty-services/
Don’t forget access to a world of content via the library catalog. It holds links to all our digital content – find eBooks, digital copies of articles, streaming documentaries, films, and a host of archival content from libraries around the world. Visit https://hpulibraries.on.worldcat.org/
As always, please send comments, suggestions, and ideas to [email protected].
Hours and Resources
Smith Library – Wanek Center Learning Commons – SOE Resource Center.
Smith Library begins our fall 24-hour schedule. We open Sunday morning at 9 AM and close Friday at midnight. Saturdays we are open from 8 AM to midnight. Librarians, services, and online chat are available all hours the library is staffed.
For other hours and locations use this resource tab.
https://www.highpoint.edu/library/library-locations/
Workshops – you are welcome to see a list of the library workshops for the fall semester. Workshops require registration – here is the link. https://highpoint.libcal.com/calendar/workshop_series?
Librarians can also work with students in your class. Consider adding a research session as your students approach paper or project deadlines. Contact your library liaison or use the link on the faculty services page.
https://www.highpoint.edu/library/faculty-services/
Resource highlight – eBooks.
There are currently about 900,000 eBooks in the library collection. All of these can be searched and opened via the library catalog – enter a title or topic and then look for the access link. eBooks make great companion readings for textbooks. https://hpulibraries.on.worldcat.org/
Try the Overdrive link. It provides downloadable access to about 5000 eBooks. Find a book, input your username and password, and you are ready to read! https://hpulibraries.overdrive.com/
Have a good semester and let us know if you have questions or concerns. [email protected]
Students now have access to free graduate level test prep software called Learning Express. The product includes test guides, a library of resources, and timed practice test. Student do have to create an account while on campus to start using the service.
https://www.learningexpresshub.com
“LearningExpress Library is an easy-to-use online test prep resource that helps people improve their core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.”
- College admissions (ACT®, SAT®, AP® and TOEFL®)
- Graduate School Admissions exams (DAT®, GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MAT® and MCAT®)
- Academic skills-improvement for 4th-grade skills-level through college (reading, writing, math, science)
- Spanish-language content academic skills improvement as well as GED and U.S. citizenship test prep
- Occupational certification exam prep for careers in nursing and allied health, military, law enforcement, education, and the trades
The Fulbright US Student Program is a fully funded cultural exchange program that offers Study/Research awards and English Teaching Assistantships in 140 countries around the world. Students who receive the Fulbright live, work, and interact with people in their host community. These students are culturally sensitive, mature, flexible, and adaptable. They have taken teaching, mentorship, or leadership roles in campus clubs, organizations, or the wider community, and they represent the full range of ethnic, geographic, and economic backgrounds in the United States. They hail from every academic discipline.
The Office of Fellowships and Awards is seeking HPU’s next cohort of Fulbright applicants. If you know any juniors or seniors who you believe would make strong applicants, please send a referral to the Office of Fellowships and Awards by contacting James Cotton at [email protected].
As you heard at the last faculty meeting, APIRC has approved a new policy on minors and concentrations. It has been posted for faculty review on the curriculum webpage here: https://www.highpoint.edu/curriculum/faculty-review/
Here is the text of the policies we have approved:
A minor represents an optional, secondary field of study for a degree-seeking student. A minor must consist of a minimum of 18 credits and ordinarily will not exceed 25 credits. Students must complete one-half of their minor requirements at High Point University and have a minimum 2.00 GPA in the minor. Courses taken to satisfy minor requirements may not be taken on a Pass-Fail basis. No more than 8 credits may be shared between a student’s major and that student’s minor unless the major and minor are housed in different departments.
All minors must present a pathway through the minor without prerequisites or must list prerequisites as part of the credit total if they are required for compulsory minor courses. The entrance to some minors may require the completion of a number of prerequisites including elementary language courses, portfolios, auditions, placements, or other forms of documentation that are not included in the total requirements for the minor. Any prerequisites necessary to complete a minor’s requirements must be clearly detailed in the minor description. A maximum of 12 credits toward a minor can be counted toward general education requirements.
A concentration, specialization, or emphasis is a structured plan of study through which students may explore a subdiscipline or area of special focus within a major. The number of credit hours for a specific concentration or emphasis varies but is included within the credit hours for the major. Students who declare a concentration or emphasis within a major must complete a set of required courses in addition to completing the core courses required for the standard major.
Normally, we hold approved proposals for two weeks for faculty review before sending them to the Registrar for publication. But in this case, since this is an important new policy potentially affecting every department on campus, we are going to extend the review period until the end of January to allow more time for faculty feedback and input. If we receive significant concerns from faculty about these new policies, we will reconsider them. There are three ways you can contribute your feedback: 1.) submit a Curricular Concern Form on the curriculum website; 2.) notify your school’s representative on APIRC; 3.) notify APIRC Chair, Dr. Bryan Vescio, at [email protected].
Travel should be pre-approved before making travel arrangements by using the appropriate faculty, staff, or student/guest approval form. The HPU Travel Policy, Travel Addendums, and Pre-Approval forms can be found on Blackboard under Organizations, Business Office/Purchasing, and Travel Policy. Please review all documentation thoroughly.
https://blackboard.highpoint.edu/webapps/login/
As we return to travel, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Corporate Travel Planners (CTP), a travel management company. CTP utilizes Concur software to book airfare, lodging, and rental car in a one-stop-shop experience. A centrally managed travel program ensures competitive contract pricing, compliance with travel policies, enriched travel reporting, and duty of care for travelers.
The link to the Concur website is below that you may bookmark; however, you will FIRST need to self-register to set up a login for the first time. Please see the “Concur Self-Registration Procedure” document found on Blackboard using the same path as above. Once you submit your registration and receive approval from the Business Office, you will get an email notification with login instructions and a link to set up your password. Once logged in, you will be able to complete your travel profile and begin making travel arrangements. Please Note: Some managers and administrative assistants have already been uploaded to Concur during the system setup, so if you get an error message when you self-register that says to contact your administrator, please contact [email protected].
https://www.concursolutions.com/home.asp
Here are a few important bullet points to know:
• If you have questions about the functionality of the Concur booking tool while making a reservation, please contact Online Technical Support by phone at 877-422-4407 or email at [email protected]. There is no charge for technical support. This is the most efficient way to get answers since they are the travel experts.
• If you would like assistance from the Procurement Office, Jen Firestine will be the primary contact. Ed Chambers is the secondary contact. The Procurement Office has also established an email address for travel questions and concerns, [email protected]. We are happy to assist you!
• Booking online with Concur provides the best value (approximately $5 per booking session). Additional fees apply when booking with a Full-Service Agent. After-Hours Emergency should only be contacted when there is a true emergency ($16 minimum for making the phone call).
• We know the University has diverse travel needs; therefore, we have done our best to keep most rates available. Even if a rate is marked with a green checkmark icon to indicate it is within HPU’s Travel Policy, please be sure to shop for a low cost, reasonable rate that fits your budget and travel needs. Be sure to read alerts as some rates are non-refundable if there is a cancellation.
• If you want to see all available flights for your trip to truly find the cheapest fare, you can modify the arrival/departure search time window by clicking on the +/- 2 button and opening it up to include a larger window of time.
• You will be required to select a budget account number when booking travel. You can only select one budget account number per booking. This is only for reporting purposes and does not “feed” anywhere else. You will still allocate a budget account number on reimbursements. If you do not see a budget account number that you need, please contact the Procurement Office at [email protected].
• The “Trip Confirmation” screen is NOT the final screen in the ticket purchase. Your ticket IS NOT yet reserved at this screen. When you get to the “Finished!” screen, you can be sure that your ticket is then reserved.
• When you book your trip, your supervisor will receive an email notification of the booking.
• If you complete a booking and need to make a change, please contact a Full-Service Agent at 877-422-4407 for assistance. If you need to cancel airfare from a standard airline within 24 business hours after the booking, the transaction may be voided without additional change fees.
• Students are considered guests for the purpose of the Concur system and will not have a profile. An employee of HPU can arrange their travel with “Guest Booking” access, but only designated employees will have this access. Please contact the Procurement Office for more information.
• Groups of 10 or more should be booked through CTP’s Groups Department. You may reach them at 1-800-810-2695 or 210-530-0857 or by email at [email protected].
• If a conference offers a special rate on lodging, you may book your hotel directly with the conference. For direct billing arrangements (invoices), such as the local Courtyard Marriott, J.H. Adams Inn, and Enterprise Car Rental, you may book directly with the vendor. These are reasonable exceptions to using the Concur website. For other extenuating circumstances and considerations, please contact the Procurement Office or [email protected] for assistance.
• If you would like to see the Concur training video, please email [email protected] or [email protected] and Jen will send it to you.
• Per the HPU Travel Policy, no personal travel should be booked using Concur.
Often a professor wants to support textbook reading with other content and often these books can be found in the library collection. When we have a physical book of a selected reading, we can add that to our in-house reserves. This allows the student to read the book in the library and make copies.
Often, we have access to the book or other content in an electronic format. 900,000 eBooks are found in the library catalog, and they cover a broad range of content.
- To look for an eBooks simply go to the library page (https://www.highpoint.edu/library/) and add your topic, title, or author to the search box.
- On the next screen you will see the books or other content (articles, videos, and so on).
- Titles accessed digitally include an “access online” button and when you click that link you will be taken directly to the eBooks or to a list of links. These links are the databases that hold that eBooks for access. Pick one, click and you are taken to that eBook.
- On the eBook record you can see a link entitled “share”. Click that and it provides a URL for that book record. Simply copy and share with your students and they will have access too!
- Want to try this? Here is a link to an eBook that is used by students in a world religion class. Copy and paste the link and you can see how this works.
https://hpulibraries.on.worldcat.org/oclc/436233232
Multiple users. If you are going to share this book with an entire class, you want to be certain that it is a multiple user copy. That’s right, most of our eBooks allow multiple users but some of the eBooks that we own are single users or allow only three users at a time. Before you adopt one of these eBooks for your class, check with your library liaison to be certain that multiple access is available. It only takes a minute to check.
Questions?
Send a note to [email protected] or [email protected]
HPU is a part of the Carolina Consortium, and the consortium just negotiated a new 3-year contract with Wiley publishing (https://authorservices.wiley.com/home.html). As a part of this contract, Wiley has added 700 open access submissions that faculty authors in the Carolina Consortium can use at no cost to the author or institution. The first researchers to use one of these open access slots were authors at NC State – http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.202102351/abstract for their article in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
Faculty at High Point have published 188 articles in Wiley journals with 18 of those publications in just the last two years. HPU faculty can make use of this open access publishing opportunity if they are publishing in one of the Wiley journals that accepts open access.
- This webpage contains information on the process for eligibility and walks you through the process of submitting an article.
- Here is a link to a PDF that describes how to process an article for open access: https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Make-your-article-open-access-with-OnlineOpen.pdf