What Is IMPACT and Why Should We Care?

Dallas L. Holmes,
Extension Specialist Institutional Research

6/16/99

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Table of Contents

• Reporting and Writing Meaningful Impact Statements
• What Is IMPACT and Why Should We Care?
• What Is IMPACT
• Importance of Impact Reporting
• An Impact Statement Is...
• So What
• Who’s Your Impact Audience?<
• The Importance of Impact to Each of Us
• Impact Reporting Is Important to Faculty and Field Staff
• Impact Reporting Is Important to Administrators
• To Administrations (Cont.)
• Ultimately
• Elements of an Impact Statement
• What Makes a Good Impact Statement? (1)
• What Makes a Good Impact Statement? (2)
• What Makes a Good Impact Statement? (3)
• Who’s Your Impact Audience?
• Elements of an Impact Statement - Economic Value
• Elements of an Impact Statement - Environmental Quality
• Elements of an Impact Statement - Social/Individual Well-being
• An Impact Statement Is Not
• Reporting Potential Impact
• Example of “Potential Impact”
• Example of an Anecdotal Impact Statement
• Uses for Impact Statements
• Uses for Impact Statements (Cont.)
• Using “Impact”
• For Further Information or to Comment