A new approach to academic advising at the University of Wisconsin-Madison encourages students to make intentional choices and take a broad view of their academic journeys.

Meetings and Institutes

• Conference on Personal and Social Responsibility—Reduced Rates Available through Sept. 3
• Integrative Learning Conference to Focus on Strategies for Teaching Complex Problem Solving
• New Speakers Confirmed for AAC&U’s 2010 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
• Submit Proposals for Shaping Faculty Roles Conference by September 8

LEAP News

• Read AAC&U’s LEAP Blog, LiberalEducation.Nation, via RSS Feed
  
• AAC&U President’s Op-Ed about the Value of Liberal Education Featured in Forbes Magazine
  

Project Highlights

• VALUE Initiative Releases Fifteen Rubrics to Assess Key Learning Outcomes

Other AAC&U News

• AAC&U Invites Submissions to National Gallery of Writing on Topic of Twenty-First-Century Liberal Education
  

How Students Really Decide: College Selection from the Inside

Iphigenia and the iPhone

by Dan Edelstein, Inside Higher Ed, August 13, 2009

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AAC&U News is written and edited by Laura Donnelly-Smith. If you have questions or comments about the newsletter's contents, please e-mail donnelly-smith@aacu.org.