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1. AAC&U Announces LEAP National Leadership Council Members
2. AAC&U Members Discuss “Principles of Excellence” and Campus Efforts to Advance Liberal Education 
3. AAC&U Board Issues Statement on Academic Freedom
4. 2006 AAC&U Summer Institutes Accepting Applications
5. AAC&U Cosponsors Wye Faculty Seminar and Presidents' Seminar with the Aspen Institute
6. Peer Review Invites Readers to Participate in Online Survey
7. Nine Graduate Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
8. Liberal Education Examines Leadership in the New Academy
9. Results from Liberal Education Survey Are In
10. WII and AAC&U Announce Spring Faculty Fellows
11. Humanities Advocacy Day to Be Held in March
12. Center Launches National Study on Impact of Liberal Education

     

Survey Sheds Light on High School Students’ Engagement and Aspirations

Political Control Hurts Academia

by Patrick Rael, in the Bowdoin Orient (December 2, 2005)

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AAC&U News is written and edited by Michael Ferguson. If you have questions or comments about the newsletter's contents, please e-mail ferguson@aacu.org.