With more than 450 institutions signed on, the AAC&U Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning (CALL) is moving ahead in its mission to bring the value of liberal education into the public dialogue about higher education. Ten Campus-Community Dialogues organized around the campaign's theme will take place around the country this fall. Thirty-two institutions are hosting or co-hosting these regional dialogues, bringing together presidents and academic leaders, secondary school educators, students, and business and government leaders to address the learning students need for today's society.

Watch your mail for Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, a report from the national panel guiding AAC&U's Greater Expectations initiative. The report presents a new vision for college-level learning in the twenty-first century and recommends specific actions and practices that lead to greater academic achievement for all college students. The report calls for far-reaching changes in the ways we prepare students for college and what they are asked to achieve once they matriculate. The report also calls for providing a revitalized liberal education for all students that is engaged with the needs of a complex world, inclusive and attentive to the diversity of U.S. society and an increasingly interconnected globe, and practical, enabling students to put their knowledge to productive use.

The report and its attendent Web site will feature good practices to assist campuses in building coherent, purposeful programs that prepare students for twenty-first century challenges. The report will be mailed and available on-line in late September. For information about Greater Expectations, visit http://www.aacu.org/gex/index.cfm.

The Andrew Mellon Foundation recently awarded a grant of $50,000 to AAC&U to fund research on how liberal arts colleges are addressing global preparation and democratic engagement for all of their students. As part of AAC&U's Shared Futures: Learning for a World Lived in Common initiative, the grant seeks to identify current innovative programs and new strategies to promote global learning. In addition, forums on global learning are planned for October, 2002, at Diversity & Learning: Education for a World Lived in Common and for AAC&U's 2003 annual meeting The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21st Century which is part of AAC&U's Greater Expectations Forum on Liberal Arts Education Practice. For information see www.aacu.org/gex/Forum/index.cfm and /www.aacu.org/meetings/annuameeting/index.cfm.

Supported by a grant from the Bildner Family Foundation, AAC&U facilitated a summer institute at Princeton University in June 2002 for grantees of the New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative. The four-day residential institute brought together teams from eight participating schools. The New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative supports a range of campus-based projects that address such issues as curriculum transformation, faculty development, cross-cultural research, and campus-community forums on issues of race and ethnicity. AAC&U Vice President Caryn McTighe Musil and Senior Fellow Edgar Beckham also serve as ongoing consultants to the initiative. For further information and a list of participating schools, visit www.aacu.org/bildner/index.cfm.

SENCER Partners with AAAS to Welcome Four African Teams to 2002 Summer Institute

The Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Summer Institute was held earlier this month at Santa Clara University. Through a partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), SENCER hosted four teams from Kenya and Tanzania, and welcomed a returning member, Dr. Debra Meyer of Rand Afrikanns University, who was a member of the African Women in Science and Engineering (AWSE) delegation to SSI-2001. The 2002 African delegation joined fifty-two teams from the United States. For a complete list of institutions that attended the institute and their projects, visit www.aacu.org/sencer/pdfs/ScannedAppsFinal.pdf. For more information on the SENCER project, visit www.aacu.org/sencer/index.cfm.

The current issue of Peer Review focuses on "Value Added Assessment of Liberal Education." Click on the link below to view the table of contents and read select articles online. On Campus with Women's spring issue focuses on "Women and Leadership," and the current issue of Liberal Education features keynotes and panels from AAC&U's annual meeting.

http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp02contents.cfm
http://www.aacu.org/ocww/OC-sp02contents.cfm
http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-sp02contents.cfm.

AAC&U to Co-Sponsor NSSE Institute and Help Advise "Documenting Effective Educational Practices Project"

AAC&U announces its co-sponsorship of the new National Survey of Student Engagement Institute (NSSE). The Institute builds on data collected by the NSSE surveys and is aimed at improving undergraduate education by documenting and disseminating the best practices of those higher education institutions that most fully engage students in learning. The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) is partnering with NSSE on this initiative. The initiative also includes the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project coordinated by AAHE. AAC&U Vice President Caryn McTighe Musil serves on the NSSE Institute partnership advisory council. For more information and a list of other co-sponsors, visit www.indiana.edu/~nsse. For information about schools chosen as Greater Expectations leadership institutions by AAC&U because of their demonstrated commitment to learning centered undergraduate education, visit http://www.aacu.org/gex/Consortium/consortium.cfm.

Report Card on Gender Equity Released by Coalition for Women
& Girls in Education

The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, of which AAC&U is a member, recently published "Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity." Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Rep. Patsy Mink (D-HI) spoke at the press conference June 13th at which the report was released. Senator Stevens and Congresswoman Mink were both instrumental in authoring and securing passage of Title IX in 1972. A PDF of the report is available at /www.ncwge.org/title9at30-6-11.pdf.

The Network for Academic Renewal Conference on General Education Goals, Strategies, and Assessments for Powerful Learning will take place in Philadelphia, PA from February 27 to March 1, 2003. The deadline for proposals is Monday, September 23, 2002. For an online proposal form, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/gened2003/gened03cfp.cfm.

Global Collaborations:
The Role of Higher Education in Diverse Democracies
(India, South Africa,
The United States).
www.aacu.org/publications/
globalforward.cfm.

Diversity & Learning: Education for a World Lived In Common, will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002. www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning
/index.cfm.

Faculty Work and Student Learning: Meeting New Challenges of a World in Transition, another AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal meeting. This conference,
co-sponsored by the
Associated New American Colleges, will be held at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, November 7 -9, 2002. Visit www.aacu.org/meetings
/facultywork.cfm.

The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21st Century, AAC&U's 89th Annual Meeting will be held January 22-25, 2003, in Seattle, Washington. A pre-conference symposium, Shared Futures: Diversity, Inequality, and the Challenge of Global Citizenship is also planned. www.aacu.org/
meetings/annual.cfm.

For more information on meetings, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/index.cfm.