Designing Assessments that Deepen Learning: At the Intersections of General Education and Assessment
Carol Geary Schneider, president of AAC&U, presents a set of principles intended to significantly raise the standards for student achievement while avoiding the disadvantages of standardization. Peggy Maki, Education Consultant and Assessment Series Editor at Stylus Publishing, discusses strategies for assessing student achievement of these aims and outcomes and for using assessment to enhance students' cumulative progress in integrating general education perspectives throughout their studies. Recorded Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
(Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:55:00 EST)

Charting the Successful Transfer: Coherence and Degree Completion in a Time of Swirling Enrollments
Helen Giles-Gee, president of Keene State College, and Stephen Mittelstet, president of Richland College address the distinct challenges that swirling enrollments pose to educators and administrators as they strive to foster student achievement of essential learning outcomes. They examine system and state-wide approaches to general education and the role of research and assessment in providing feedback about student progress towards educational goals as they move from one institution to another. Recorded Friday, February 22, 2008, 8:00 a.m.
(Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:55:00 EST)

Achieving Faculty Engagement at the Crossroads
Joan Lorden, provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Charlynn Ross, director of the University Center for Academic Excellence, both of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, present a variety of methods for supporting and advancing faculty engagement with general education designs that inspire student goal setting, curiosity, and critical thinking. Recorded Friday, February 22, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
(Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:55:00 EST)

Cultivating Liberal Education Outcomes: Perspectives of Disciplinary Societies
Robin Hailstorks, director of pre-college and undergraduate programs at the American Psychological Association, Carla Howery, former director of academic and professional affairs at the American Sociological Association, and Maura B. Mast, president of the special interest group on quantitative literacy of the Mathematical Association of America and associate professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston discuss how disciplinary knowledge and habits of the mind can be infused into General Education to provide student learning. The panel was moderated by Jerry Gaff, Senior Scholar, AAC&U. Recorded Friday, February 22, 2008, 1:45 p.m.
(Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:55:00 EST)

Assessment and General Education: Resisting Reductionism without Resisting Responsibility
Stanley Katz, professor in public and international affairs, faculty chair of the undergraduate program, and director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Woodrow Wilson SchoolPrinceton University, address one of the most important challenges to educatorshow to respond creatively to political demands for institutional educational accountability without compromising our larger liberal education objectives. Recorded Saturday, February 23, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
(Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:55:00 EST)