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Board Chair Foregrounds Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence
in Inaugural Events
In a featured event at the inauguration
of AAC&U Board Chair Ronald A. Crutcher as president of
Wheaton College, campus and community participants discussed
the role of diversity in today's understanding of educational
excellence. Speakers at the symposium included AAC&U President
Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U Board Member and Spelman
College President Beverly Daniel Tatum, Harvard University's
Lani Guinier, and the University of Michigan's Lester Monts.
President Crutcher's inaugural
address is available on Wheaton's Web site. See AAC&U's
"Greater Expectations
Vision for Learning in the New Academy" (PDF) and the
Liberal Education and America's
Promise campaign Web pages for further information about
AAC&U's work on liberal education.
AAC&U Announces Participants
in 2005 Summer Institutes
AAC&U has selected teams from
more than fifty colleges and universities to participate in
its two summer institutes. From May 20 to 25, faculty and
administrators from thirty-one campuses will attend the Institute
on General Education. This year's institute will again
be held on the campus of Salve Regina University in Newport,
Rhode Island. Teams from twenty-eight campuses will attend
this year's Greater
Expectations Institute on Campus Leadership for Student
Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement. The Greater Expectations
Institute will be held June 22-26 in Burlington, Vermont.
A press
release announcing the summer institutes, which includes
lists of participating institutions, is available on AAC&U's
Web site.
AAC&U
Invites Nominations for Ness Book Award
AAC&U invites nominations
for the 2006 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. This award is given
annually to recognize a book that contributes to the understanding
and improvement of liberal education. The award, which includes
a prize of $2,000, is a mark of distinction for both authors
and publishers and is presented at AAC&U's annual meeting.
For information on eligibility, please visit AAC&U's
Ness Book Award page. Nominations are due by May 16, 2005.
"Integrative
Learning and Electronic Portfolios" Featured Topic of
May Webcast
"Integrative Learning and Electronic
Portfolios," the last in a series of Webcasts about technology
and general education, will take place on May 12 at 1 p.m.
EST. The series, which is being presented by AAC&U and
the TLT
Group, addresses whether advances in the uses of computing
and the Internet have implications for what students should
learn in college and whether computing creates new opportunities
for improving general education. Further
information about the Webcast series is available on AAC&U's
Web site.
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General
Education and the Assessment Reform Agenda
A
new Academy in Transition paper by national assessment expert
Peter Ewell
Integrative
Learning: Mapping the Terrain
A new Academy in Transition
paper by Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings, published jointly
by AAC&U and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching
Network for Academic Renewal
Conferences:
Integrative
Learning: Creating Opportunities to Connect will
take place October 20-22, 2005, in Denver, Colorado
The
Civic Engagement Imperative: Student Learning and the Public
Good will take place November
10-12, 2005, in Providence, Rhode Island
Summer Institutes:
The
Institute on General Education will
be held May 20-25, 2005, in Newport, Rhode Island
The
Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Inclusion,
Engagement, and Achievement
will be held June 22-26, 2005, in Burlington, Vermont
For more
information on meetings, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/index.cfm
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