2002 Annual Meeting to Focus on "Changing Students in a Changing World"

AAC&U's 88th Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 23-26, 2002 in Washington, D.C., will explore the topic "Changing Students in a Changing World—Culturally Diverse, Economically Divided, Globally Interdependent." Speakers include: James A. Joseph, former American Ambassador to South Africa and Director of the US-South Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values; Benjamin Barber, The Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland, College Park; Gerald Graff, Associate Dean of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International Center for Research on Women in Washington, D.C. A pre-meeting symposium on January 23rd will explore "Liberal Learning and the Challenge of Uncommon Values." For further program and registration information, see
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annual.cfm

FIPSE Grant Supports Project on Liberal Learning and Global Citizenship

AAC&U's newest campus-based initiative, "Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: the Arts of Democracy" will mobilize colleges and universities nationally to take leadership in preparing college students for global citizenship and the challenges that they face. The project's goal is to prepare future college graduates to become more informed, socially responsible, and engaged citizens of the nation and the world. With an initial grant of $609,497 from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the initiative will assist colleges and universities in providing students with a sophisticated understanding of their increasingly interconnected but unequal world.

"Liberal Education and Global Citizenship" is the first project of a new AAC&U long-term initiative, "Shared Futures: Learning for a World Lived in Common." This project is sponsored by AAC&U's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives and builds on previous AAC&U initiatives addressing higher education's responsibilities in a diverse democracy and interconnected world.

The project will involve administrators, faculty members, and student affairs professionals to develop new levels of intercultural competencies as part of the core educational goal of undergraduate college majors. In its first phase, "Liberal Education and Global Citizenship" will involve ten colleges and universities committed to designing new components within the undergraduate major that teach students about issues of globalization, involvement in community struggles for justice, and essential skills in the arts of inclusive democracy.

"We hope the project will be one small way of beginning to work toward another kind of global community than the fractured, violence-ridden one represented by the kind of heinous acts committed September 11. We believe our students can become part of a wider positive force committed to working in community with others across cultural, religious, and national borders to create socially responsible, peaceful, and equitable societies," says Caryn McTighe Musil, the project's director and AAC&U vice president.

The national call for proposals will be issued early next month. Watch this site for more information about this and other Shared Futures projects. To receive a copy of the call for proposals, call Michelle Cooper, AAC&U Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives (202/387-3760).

http://www.aacu.org/communications/FIPSE.cfm

http://www.aacu.org/globalcitizenship/index.cfm

Newest Issue of Liberal Education Examines Globalization and the Hegemony of Market Values

The newest issue of Liberal Education, AAC&U's quarterly journal, focuses on "Expanding the Horizon of Liberal Education." "The Future of Liberal Education and the Hegemony of Market Values" by Grant Cornwell and Eve Stoddard from St. Lawrence University leads off the issue by addressing the ways in which liberal education has both economic and educational meanings often not in harmony with one another. Cornwell and Stoddard challenge a traditional opposition between "practical" and "liberal" education and suggest that a reconceptualized contemporary liberal education is precisely the democratic and democratizing endeavor students need in today's world. Cornwell and Stoddard are also the authors of AAC&U's Academy in Transition paper, Globalizing Knowledge.

To read selections from the Summer issue of Liberal Education, including Cornwell and Stoddard's article, visit http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/contents.cfm. To order a copy of Globalizing Knowledge, visit http://www.aacu.org/publications/alphalist.cfm.

Gender,Science, and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Building Two-Way Streets
emerges from the work of ten institutions involved in AAC&U's curriculum and faculty development project, Women and Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets. Edited by Caryn McTighe Musil.

For ordering information, see
www.aacu.org/publications/

November 1-3, 2001: "Technology, Learning, and Intellectual Development: Challenges at the Crossroads of the Education Revolution," AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal fall conference, will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. 

January 23-26, 2002: Changing Students in a Changing World—Culturally Diverse, Economically Divided, Globally Interdependent," AAC&U's Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, DC. For information, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/annual.cfm