Eleven institutions participated in the first curriculum and faculty development institute of Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy held last month. This initial project in the Shared Futures Initiative is designed as a curriculum and faculty development project to work with colleges and universities to foreground democracy as aspiration and practice, while expanding the investigation of global knowledge within their majors. The project is supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) US Department of Education. For more information and a list of participating institutions and their project summaries, see www.aacu.org/globalcitizenship/index.cfm.

Through July 19, proposals for "THE COURAGE TO QUESTION: Liberal Education in the 21st Century," AAC&U's 2003 Annual Meeting, will continue to be accepted online. The eighty-ninth annual meeting will take place January 22-25, 2003 in Seattle, Washington. A pre-conference symposium, "Shared Futures: Diversity, Inequality, and the Challenge of Global Citizenship" is planned for January 22. The Call for Proposals is available:www.aacu.org/meetings/AMCall.cfm.

For more information and regular updates about AAC&U's Annual Meeting, see www.aacu.org/meetings/annual.cfm.

"For the Common Good: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and Community-based Work," an invitational meeting for private liberal arts colleges sponsored by AAC&U, Oberlin College, and the National Campus Compact was held June 2-4, 2002, at Oberlin College in Ohio. Liberal arts colleges that have established programs in service-learning and/or other forms of civic engagement were invited to participate. Designed for teams of faculty, administrators, students, and community partners to investigate how liberal education can deepen student learning in the context of civic engagement, the institute examined how blending intellectual, pedagogical, and civic aims can converge to sharpen students' analytical skills and deepen their sense of responsibility in an interdependent, but still unequal world. Caryn McTighe Musil, Vice President of AAC&U's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, delivered the opening keynote address and helped plan the conference program.

For more information about the National Campus Compact, see www.compact.org/aboutcc/.

For more information about AAC&U's work on civic engagement, see www.aacu.org/issues/civic_engagement.cfm.

Designed to build faculty and administrative capacity to sustain learning-centered innovations by embedding them in campus cultures, the second annual AAC&U Institute on Campus Leadership for Sustainable Innovation will take place in Leesburg, Virginia from July 23-28 . Supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the institute is a part of AAC&U's Greater Expectations initiative.For more information on the institute, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/sustainableinnovations.cfm.

AAC&U, in collaboration with the Claremont Graduate University, is sponsoring a Campus Diversity Evaluation Seminar in Ontario, California, June 10-12. Designed to familiarize participating campuses with the CDI Evaluation process, the seminar will provide teams with an opportunity to have time away from campus to focus on improving the implementation of their campus evaluations, to discuss issues they see as important to their evaluation, and to facilitate sharing among campuses in the process. Under the direction of Alma Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for Education and Institutional Renewal, the CDI Evaluation project is sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation and co-sponsored by the Claremont Graduate University. For additional information about the project and its participating schools, visit http://www.aacu.org/irvinediveval/index.cfm.

AAC&U Quarterlies Diversity Digest and On Campus with Women Released This Month

Watch your mail for a double issue Diversity Digest, covering curriculum transformation and faculty involvement, and a new issue of On Campus with Women, devoted to the debate concerning women and leadership issues.

For more information or to order these publications, please visit www.aacu.org/publications/index.cfm/.

Eight New Jersey schools were chosen to participate in a three-year statewide Campus Diversity Initiative funded by the Bildner Family Foundation. The Foundation has partnered with AAC&U to create graduates who are better informed about America's multicultural mosaic, committed to eradicating prejudice, and equipped to build strong communities across differences. The first event planned for this project is a 4-day institute organized by AAC&U to take place at Princeton University from June 21 thorugh June 24, 2002. The colleges and universities chosen to participate are:

Bergen Community College

Bloomfield College

County College of Morris

Princeton University

Rowan University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

The work of this project will build upon another much respected statewide initiative, the New Jersey Curriculum Transformation Project, which has worked for two decades to expand the curriculum and deepen faculty expertise. Allen and Joan Bildner hope that their New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative will lead to institutional transformation at colleges and universities throughout the state of New Jersey. AAC&U expects the project to have an impact in other states as well.

For more information about the Bildner Foundation, see www.bildner.org. For more information about AAC&U's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, see www.aacu.org/issues/diversity.cfm.

Global Collaborations: The Role of Higher Education in Diverse Democracies (India, South Africa, the United States)
Edgar F. Beckham, Editor

Written as a companion to Diversity, Democracy, and Higher Education: A View from Three Nations, this volume continues to explore the challenges posed by diversity to democratic societies within the context of higher education. Includes perspectives from the three countries who participated in the Ford Foundation's Tri-National Seminar on Diversity and Higher Education. Frames some parameters for a new kind of global education that would be comparative in nature, reciprocal in practice, and committed to social justice.

For ordering information, call 1/800-297-3775 or see
www.aacu.org/publications/.

Diversity & Learning: Education for a World Lived In Common, AAC&U's fourth biennial Diversity and Learning conference, will explore the challenge of educating students for a world lived in common, despite the division, inequities, and differences that often seem to dominate. Planned for St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002, this conference will address how campuses can provide spaces--both literal and intellectual--that foster new knowledge and new capacities for informed, sustained engagement between individuals, groups, local communities, and global partners?

Also scheduled for Fall 2002, 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.

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.

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