Liberal Education and America's Promise
Campus Action Network (CAN)
Through the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative, the Campus Action Network (CAN) brings together campuses and organizations that are committed to liberal education, helps them to improve their efforts to ensure all students achieve essential liberal education outcomes, and shines a spotlight on campus practices that work.
Click on the links below to see the LEAP CAN member institutions:
Joining CAN
LEAP CAN members pledge to proactively advance liberal education for all students—including those who historically have been underserved by the academy. They further pledge to create new ways both to illuminate the benefits of liberal education to students and to develop and publicize practices—curricular, co-curricular, and pedagogical—that help students achieve essential liberal education outcomes.
CAN membership is open to all AAC&U members. To join CAN and immediately enjoy the member benefits, simply:
- Check the list of CAN members to confirm that your institution is not a member of the LEAP CAN.
- Check your AAC&U membership status.
- Fill out the CAN partner form. Be sure to assign a liaison who will receive LEAP communications from AAC&U, and be sure to have the president and provost sign the CAN partner form.
- Return the form to AAC&U by fax at 202-265-9532.
- Tell AAC&U what your institution is doing to advance the LEAP vision on your campus.
Click here to find out the various ways to get involved with the LEAP initiative.
CAN Member Benefits
CAN builds the capacity of campus and organizational partners to:
- Communicate effectively about the value of a liberal education in the twenty-first century with both on-campus and off-campus constituents.
- Understand better how successfully they are delivering on the promise of liberal education.
- Assess and improve efforts to ensure that all their students are achieving the essential outcomes of an engaged and practical liberal education.
- Learn from colleagues at other institutions about promising practices that work.
- Gather data about essential liberal education student learning outcomes.
- Effectively tell stories of student success as a result of liberal education.
Other member benefits include:
- Campus visibility – Invitations to showcase members’ best and most promising practices at LEAP CAN Forums, Workshops, and Network for Academic Renewal conferences. In addition, there are opportunities to feature institutional practices on AAC&U’s Web site, in AAC&U publications, and at AAC&U’s Annual Meeting.
- Free workshops – Invitation to attend free workshops (held at the Network for Academic Renewal conferences) that are centered on a specific topic that will enhance the work being done on campus.
- Forums – Invitation to attend a forum at AAC&U’s Annual Meeting to explore how CAN institutions will take advantage of LEAP partnerships - and work to advance educational change.
- 25% "introductory" discount on enrollment in AAC&U Associate Membership – Enjoy the benefits of an AAC&U Associate Membership - at a discounted rate.
- Access to resources –Access to print and Web resources about communicating, assessing, and understanding the importance of liberal education. Special invitation to participate in AAC&U’s grant-funded projects.
Contact Us
For more information about the Campus Action Network, contact
- Nancy O'Neill, Director of Integrative Programs and the LEAP Campus Action Network, 202-387-3760 ext. 816
- Nakia Bell, Program Assistant, 202-387-3760 ext. 407
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