On September 30th, the Greater Expectations National Panel unveiled its report: Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College at a forum on the quality of college learning in Washington DC. Drawing on pace-setting programs and innovations at colleges, universities, and community colleges across the country, the report presents a vision for a new, more effective academy, one that offers a practical, engaged liberal education of lasting value to all the diverse students who aspire to attend and actually enroll in college. Speakers included Judith Ramaley, former president of the University of Vermont, Anthony Carnevale, vice president for Education and Careers, Educational Testing Service and formerly chair of the National Commission for Employment Policy, Richard Hersh, president of Trinity College, and Eduardo J. Padrón, president, Miami-Dade Community College.
For a copy of the report and to learn more about the Greater Expectations Web site, visit www.greaterexpectations.org. For news coverage about the report, visit /www.aacu.org/press_room/GEXinthenew.cfm.

The first Campus-Community Dialogue for the Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning (CALL) was held in Largo, MD, on September 26, hosted by Prince George's Community College and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. About 90 people participated, representing local business executives, public schools, local government, and higher education. Participants responded favorably to the proposed integration of liberal and practical outcomes in education. The CALL has more Campus-Community dialogues scheduled throughout the 2002-2003 academic year. These regional roundtable conversations center on topics such as effective student learning, school-college connections, and ways that academic, community, and business leaders can work together to prepare students for lifelong learning and effective work. The next event is scheduled to take place at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, on October 8th, followed by an event in Raleigh on October 10th hosted by Duke University and North Carolina State University. For a schedule of these dialogues and for more information on the CALL, visit www.aacu.org/call/index.cfm.

Register now for "Faculty Work and Student Learning: Meeting New Challenges of a World in Transition," which will be held at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, from November 7-9. Designed for faculty members, academic administrators, and student affairs administrators, this working conference examines new research on cognitive development and learning theory and its implications for the relations among faculty, students, institutions, and the larger community. Reserve your hotel room by October 7 to guarantee the conference rate. Late registration fees apply after October 14. For more information and to register, visit http://www.aacu.org/meetings/facultywork.cfm.

AAC&U was recently awarded a research grant by the Andrew Mellon Foundation to investigate how liberal arts colleges are addressing global preparation and democratic engagement for their students. Through their research, including a series of roundtables discussions, staff from AAC&U's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives plan to compile a list of best practices and strategies for global education and democratic engagement.

If your institution is committed to integrating global education into the overall mission of the college as evidenced through curricular and co-curricular initiatives, please contact Michelle Cooper to let her know that you would like to be part this research project. For more information about AAC&U's projects in global learning, visit www.aacu.org/issues/globallearning/.

AAC&U Advises U.S. News and World Report—2002 Rankings Include Information About Academic Programs that Enhance Learning

Through its far-reaching initiative, Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College, and with advice from the 22 colleges, community colleges, and universities in the Greater Expectations Consortium on Quality Education, AAC&U has worked with U.S. News and World Report to begin gathering information about innovations in undergraduate education that lead to positive learning outcomes. While not yet formally affecting rankings, these promising practices, and schools that have comprehensively developed them, are now featured in the 2002 U.S. News "America's Best Colleges" issue. For Web-based information, see www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankacadprogs_brief.php.

On September 16th, BellSouth announced a three-year project though which AAC&U will provide support for BellSouth Foundation's College Going Minorities (CGM) Initiative. The foundation selected five schools to receive $105,000 of support over three years. Grantees include The University of Alabama, Huntsville; Macon State College (Macon, GA); Jackson State University (Jackson, MS); The University of North Carolin, Pembroke (Laurinburg, NC); and Trident Technical College (Charleston, SC). AAC&U will provide training to these schools to help them evaluate their projects designed to achieve the institution's diversity goals. Through site visits and conferences, AAC&U will also help schools share their methodologies and innovations. For information, visit http://bellsouthcorp.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=41423.

New Issue of Liberal Education Focuses on Faculty

The summer issue of Liberal Education features articles on faculty and the work of AAC&U Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) projects, the disconnect between graduate education and faculty realities, and models for teaching innovation. For more information and selected online articles, visit www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/index.cfm.

On Campus with Women Addresses the Environment

The final print version of On Campus with Women, focusing on women and the environment, was recently published. Watch the news for information about a new, online version of the journal scheduled for release in December 2002.
For the current issue, visit www.aacu.org/ocww.

Early Registration for Annual Meeting Ends November 25

Registration has begun for AAC&U's 2003 Annual Meeting, "The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21st Century, " to be held in Seattle, Washington, January 22-25. (Early-bird registration ends November 25.) For conference highlights and online registration, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/annual.cfm.

The newly designed AAC&U Web site was awarded the Standard of Excellence WebAward in the 2002 WebAward Competition hosted by the Web Marketing Association. An industry panel judged 1,300 entries on design, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, ease of use, and use of technology. Judges remarked that the site had "lots of good and useful information for the target audience," and that the "primary and secondary navigation is clear and easy to use." For more on the award, visit /www.webaward.org/winner.asp?eid=1506.

Greater Expectations:
A New Vision for Learning
as a Nation Goes to College

www.greaterexpections.org

Diversity & Learning: Education for a World Lived In Common, will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002. www.aacu.org/meetings/
dl2002.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 http://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. http://www.aacu.org/
meetings/annual.cfm.

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