Call for Proposals Issued
for General Education and Assessment Conference
AAC&U invites proposals for
"General Education
and Assessment: Creating Shared Responsibility for Learning
Across the Curriculum," an AAC&U Network for Academic
Renewal Conference which will take place February 17-19, 2005,
in Atlanta, Georgia. Faculty, academic administrators, student
affairs professionals, graduate students, accreditors, and
others are encouraged to submit proposals that respond to
broad, compelling questions about the state of general education
today. The proposal deadline is July 1, 2004, and the
call for proposals is now online.
AAC&U
Announces Participants in Three Summer Institutes
AAC&U has selected teams from 101 colleges and universities
to participate in three different summer institutes. From
May 21-26, faculty and administrators from thirty-one campuses
will attend the Institute
on General Education; this year, for the first time, the
Institute will be held on the campus of Salve Regina University
in Newport, Rhode Island. Teams
from thirty campuses will attend this year's Greater
Expectations Institute on Student Engagement, Inclusion,
and Achievement, which will be held June 23-27 in Snowbird,
Utah. Forty-four campus
teams will participate in the fourth summer institute on Science
Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities,
which will be held August 6-10 at Santa Clara University in
Santa Clara, California. More information about the summer
institutes can be found on AAC&U's online
calendar of meetings. A press
release announcing the summer institutes, which includes
lists of participating institutions, is also available online.
Interim Report Documents
Lessons Learned from Diversity Initiatives
A new interim report by Daryl Smith
of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) evaluates the progress
of the James Irvine Foundation California Diversity Initiative.
The project, jointly sponsored by AAC&U and CGU and codirected
by AAC&U Vice President Alma Clayton-Pedersen, is working
with twenty-eight independent colleges and universities to
develop effective diversity evaluation tools both to monitor
progress and to bring about organizational change. To learn
more about the project, see the Initiative's
Web pages, the new
interim report (pdf), and issues of AAC&U's
Diversity Digest highlighting project results.
AAC&U
Organizes Bildner New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative Meeting
AAC&U continues to support the Bildner
New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative (NJCDI) as it works
to reduce prejudice, to promote intergroup understanding,
and to foster the comprehensive institutional change needed
to support such learning. Most recently, AAC&U collaborated
with The Philanthropic Initiative to organize the third meeting
of NJCDI schools, which was held April 2-3 in Long Branch,
New Jersey. Drawing on the insights and achievements of the
nine participating campuses, the meeting focused on how to
best position each institution to achieve a high level of
change in the final year of the grant. More information about
NJCDI and details about the meeting can be found on AAC&U's
Bildner Initiative Web pages.
AAC&U
Board Member Elaine Maimon Moves to University of Alaska Anchorage
AAC&U Board Member Elaine Maimon
will become chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage
this July. Maimon is currently provost of Arizona State University
West and vice president of Arizona State University. A press
release announcing her appointment is available online.
Journal on General Education Features Findings from Survey
of AAC&U Members
The latest issue of New
Directions for Higher Education, "Changing General Education
Curriculum," features findings from two surveys of AAC&U member
institutions conducted in 2000. Edited by AAC&U Senior Scholar
Jerry Gaff and by James L. Ratcliff and D. Kent Johnson of
Penn State University, the issue documents significant changes
in attitudes about general education, in factors influencing
curriculum change, and in educational priorities for general
education programs. The main findings of the surveys also
appear in The Status of General Education in the Year
2000, an AAC&U publication. To order a copy of the
journal, visit Jossey-Bass
online. To order a copy of The Status of General Education
in the Year 2000, visit AAC&U's online
store. Additional resources on general education can be
found on AAC&U's general
education resuorces page.
Participants in AAC&U's Sumner Symposium Exchange Strategies
for Advancing Health
Participants from eleven colleges
and universities attended AAC&U's third Sumner Symposium,
which was held April 26-27 in Washington, DC. The Sumner Symposia
and Sumner National Network explore how the power and capacity
of students--their energy, experience, intelligence, and good
will--can be integrated with other institutional assets to
advance our common health. At the most recent Symposium, teams
of students, faculty, and administrators discussed programs
and strategies that address campus and community health problems.
More information about Sumner
Symposia and the Sumner National Network and about AAC&U's
Program for Health and Higher Education
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