The deadline to submit a proposal to present at one of AAC&U's spring meetings is September 23, 2002. General Education Goals, Strategies, and Assessments for Powerful Learning will be held in Philadelphia, February 27-March 1, 2002, and Learning Communities: Research Informing Practice will be held in Phoenix, April 10-12, 2002. For information on submitting a proposal for the general education conference, see www.aacu.org/meetings/gened2003/gened03cfp.cfm; to submit a proposal for the learning communities conference, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/lc2003/.

AAC&U's Program for Health and Higher Education, funded by a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has gathered more than 300 courses and course modules in an online, searchable database, NLRD (National Leadership Resource Database). Find out how faculty members from across the country are incorporating HIV/AIDS and related health issues into the undergraduate curriculum. Course nominations to the database are always welcome. To view the database, visit http://nlrd.aacu-edu.org.

The sixth of a family of projects in AAC&U's Greater Expectations initiatives, the Forum on Twenty-first Century Liberal Arts Educational Practice will sponsor a series of seminars in the coming year. The Forum project is designed to discover and disseminate good examples of curriculum and pedagogy that lead to key liberal education learning outcomes. The four working groups are focusing on the following outcomes: inquiry-based learning, global preparedness, integrative learning, and civic engagement in a diverse democracy.

The following reflective seminars are scheduled for this Fall:

Integrative learning, October 11 at Babson College and November 7 at Audrey Cohen College;

Civic education in a diverse democracy, October 1 at Portland State University and October 8 at the University of Michigan;

Inquiry-based learning, October 1 at Indiana University of Purdue University Indianapolis;

Watch the news for more seminars to be announced. For more information, on the GEx forums, visit www.aacu.org/gex/Forum/forum.cfm.

The 2002 Institute for Campus Leadership on Sustainable Innovation welcomed twenty-four campus teams in July. The institute provided a forum for institutions and individuals to explore issues relevant to their campuses. Campus projects reflected the full spectrum of AAC&U projects. Each team mission was unique, but all participants worked to design, implement, and sustain new approaches to improving liberal education on their campuses. For more information, visit www.aacu.org/Meetings/sustainableinnovations.cfm.

AAC&U Receives Grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for Presidents' CALL

The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded AAC&U a grant of $50,000 to support work on the Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning (CALL). The CALL now includes more than 500 signatures of college and university presidents from a variety of institutions. The Carnegie grant will be used to support Campus-Community Dialogues that will involve more than 100 campuses during the 2002-2003 academic year. For a schedule of Campus-Community Dialogues planned for fall 2002 or for information on how to become involved, visit www.aacu.org/call/index.cfm.

"The Values Question in Higher Education" is the theme of the newest issue of Peer Review. Articles include "How Can Values Be Taught in the University" by Toni Morrison of Princeton University and a report on athletes and religion on campus. Watch your mail for this important issue. For information on Peer Review, visit www.aacu.org/peerreview/index.cfm.

Preparing Future Faculty Occasional Papers Now Online

The three latest essays in the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Occasional Papers Series are now available online. Partially funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, PFF works to reinvent the preparation of doctoral students who aspire to become faculty. Papers by Kathrynn Adams, James Applegate, and Leigh DeNeef explore the expectations of institutions hiring future faculty, PFF programs as vehicles for changing the culture of graduate education, and the difference the project has made already in a wide range of programs across the country. As a joint project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools, the second of several phases of the PFF project was successfully concluded this year. The three papers can be viewed at www.aacu.org/pff/PFFpublications/index.cfm.

Grant Deadline is November 1 for Carnegie Scholars Program

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announces that
guidelines for application to the 2003-2004 Carnegie Scholars Program are
now available. Applicants will be committed to the scholarship of teaching and learning in support of undergraduate liberal education. Application deadline is 1 November 2002. To view the guidlines, visit www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/guidelines/.

Diversity and Learning Conference Early Registration Deadline is September 24

AAC&U's fourth biennial Diversity and Learning: Education for a World Lived in Common conference is planned for St. Louis, MO, October 24-27, 2002. Register by September 24 for the reduced rate. 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. To register online, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/dl2002.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/
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.