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Online registration is now open for fall Network for Academic Renewal meetings. Plan to attend one or both of the upcoming meetings: Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress, in Long Beach, California, October 16-18, 2008; and Engaging Science, Advancing Learning: General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century, in Providence, Rhode Island, November 6-8, 2008. The Diversity meeting will investigate ways to better establish diversity as an institutional resource for helping students achieve a set of outcomes essential for work and citizenship. The Science meeting will explore the place and practice of science in college learning for the twenty-first century.
AAC&U Invites Proposals for Spring 2009 Conferences
AAC&U invites proposals for its spring 2009 Network for Academic Renewal meetings, General Education, Assessment and the Learning Students Need, to be held February 26-28, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland; and Shaping Faculty Roles in a Time of Change: Leadership for Student Learning , to be held April 2-4, 2009, in San Diego, California. The General Education and Assessment conference will help campuses align their general education vision and policies. The Shaping Faculty Roles conference will consider what is at stake for the future of undergraduate education and its faculty in a time of increased splintering of roles, contingency of status, and workload demands. Proposals for conference sessions may be submitted online. For more information and to read the calls for proposals, see the General Education CFP and the Shaping Faculty Roles CFP. Proposals are due August 1, 2008, for General Education and September 10, 2008, for Shaping Faculty Roles.
AAC&U Annual Meeting 2009 Theme, Call for Proposals Announced
AAC&U’s Annual Meeting, to be held January 21-24, 2009, at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, Washington, is titled Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise. The meeting will provide opportunities for participants to scrutinize the relationship between college learning and society. Sessions will examine our failure to fully engage the public with the kinds of learning best suited to our current needs, and will develop strategies for employing the creative energies, widespread innovations, and intentional efforts of campuses across the nation to signal a resurgence in the vitality and relevance of liberal education. Proposals for conference sessions are welcome, and should be submitted by July 21, 2008. Full details and the CFP are available online.
Podcasts Now Available from Effective Educational Practices Conference
Podcasts of speakers—including Uri Treisman and Charles Blaich —are now available from AAC&U’s April 2008 Network for Academic Renewal meeting, Discovering, Integrating and Applying Knowledge: Effective Educational Practices for Today’s Students and Tomorrow’s Innovation. Check out the podcasting home page to hear podcasts from previous meetings, and to learn about upcoming Network meetings, see the Network for Academic Renewal Web page.
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2008 Wisconsin Student “Liberal Education” Essay Winners Announced |
As part of its involvement with AAC&U’s LEAP initiative, the University of Wisconsin System sponsors a liberal education essay contest each year. This year, student applicants wrote essays that involved giving advice to a younger sibling on how best to navigate college and reap the full benefits of a liberal education. Each of the three winners will receive a $2,000 scholarship to help support his or her undergraduate education. Read the press release (with a link to excerpts from the winning essays) from the UW system, or learn how your campus can get involved in LEAP.
Forty-four Colleges and Universities Send Faculty to Civic Seminar Cosponsored by AAC&U and Aspen Institute
Forty-eight faculty members will attend the Wye Faculty Seminar on Citizenship and the Polity July 19-25, 2008. Selected by the presidents of their institutions because of their distinctive contributions to the quality of liberal education, these faculty members will study together issues of civic engagement and the public purposes of education in a free, democratic republic.For more information about AAC&U’s collaboration with the Aspen Institute, see our Wye Seminar Web page.
AAC&U’s Bringing Theory to Practice Project Announces Third National Student Conference
The Bringing Theory to Practice Project’s third National Student Conference, “Millennial Happenings,” will be held October 3-4, 2008, in Washington, DC at the Hilton Embassy Row hotel. The conference will highlight how student voices inform not only the work of the BTtoP Project, but also all college and university campus cultures.The conference will be an opportunity for students to engage with their peers from across the nation and discuss how BTtoP grantee campuses (and others) can better communicate and collaborate with their student bodies the anticipated outcomes of their BTtoP programs and research.For more information about the conference, send an e-mail to Jennifer O’Brien at obrien@aacu.org.
Film Your Issue Contest, Cosponsored by AAC&U, Announces Winners
On May 23, winners were announced in the fourth annual Film Your Issue contest, an opportunity for young people to make films documenting the social and political issues most important to them. AAC&U and other organizations, including the United Nations, The Associated Press, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MTV and the NAACP, cosponsored the contest. The winning film, “New Orleans for Sale,” was created by twenty-two-year-old Brandan Odums of New Orleans, Louisiana, and focuses on the issue of devastation as a tourist attraction in the ravaged city. To watch Brandan’s film, as well as those of the other winners, visit the Film Your Issue Web page or MySpace Page.
Your Vote, Your Voice Campaign Launched to Register, Educate Student Voters
Your Vote, Your Voice, an undertaking of the Washington Higher Educational Secretariat, a coalition of fifty associations representing all segments of the higher education community of which AAC&U is a member, is a Web-based campaign to educate and register voters on campuses across the country. The campaign Web site is updated frequently with voter registration information, links to state election offices, news about campus voting activities, and “idea-starter” examples of campus get-out-the-vote activities. A Project Organizing Handbook and other resources are also available to download.
ACAD Resource Handbook for Academic Deans Second Edition Available
The American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) announces the availability of the second edition of its bestselling publication, The Resource Handbook for Academic Deans. Written “by deans and for deans,” this is an excellent resource for academic administrators of any level. More information and order forms can be found at the ACAD Web site.
Fred Winter Appointed Senior Director of Advancement and Leadership Development at AAC&U
On May 28, AAC&U announced the appointment of Frederick A. Winter as senior director of advancement and leadership development. Winter currently holds the position of senior program officer in the Office of Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He will begin his work at AAC&U in July 2008. In his role as senior director, Winter will oversee advancement efforts in support of AAC&U’s LEAP initiative and its other strategic priorities. In addition, Winter will serve as a member of the LEAP leadership team and will work with the president and other senior staff to develop national leadership to ensure an expanding pool of champions for liberal education—including influential leaders from the business and philanthropic communities as well as from across all parts of AAC&U’s membership. For more information about Winter, see the press release announcing his appointment.
AAC&U Appoints Public Health Expert Marian Osterweis as New Senior Fellow
Marian Osterweis will be working with AAC&U’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives on its Educated Citizen and Public Health Initiative. This project, which recently received a grant from the Macy Foundation, provides resources to assist faculty in developing high quality public health curricula to deliver essential liberal education learning to undergraduates. Previously, Osterweis was the Executive Vice President of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC) from 1989 to 2006. Read the full release about her appointment online
Improvements to AACU Web Site Allow More User Interaction
We’ve made a few improvements to our Web site, including a feature that allows members to buy publications, control e-mail preferences, and update contact information from a single account (with more features coming soon). In order to make the switch, we ask you to set a password for your account. At your convenience, go to this page and enter your e-mail address. A link to create your password will be e-mailed to you. You may already have an AAC&U account if you've had some activity with us in the past. Click "Forgot your username or password?" to check your AAC&U account status.
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Network for Academic Renewal Conferences:
Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress
Long Beach, California
October 16-18, 2008
Engaging Science, Advancing Learning : General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century
Providence, Rhode Island
November 6-8, 2008
Annual Meeting 2009
Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise
January 21-24, 2009
Seattle, Washington
For more
information on meetings, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/index.cfm
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