Student engagement in college impacts their learning and development. Currentresearch advocates a broad-based approach to promoting student engagementthrough high-impact practices on the part of faculty, students, and institutionalenvironment. During this session, presenters will share specific research-basedbest practices that faculty can adopt to promote student engagement andintroduce an empirical data source, including highlights from reports, availableto the Mason community based on the National Survey of Student Engagementto inform faculty and staff on Mason’s strengths and challenges in studentengagement, growth, and satisfaction within the context of a national landscape.