Bowling Green Brings “Values” Focus to First Year of College

BGeXperience program seeks to foster critical thinking about values across the curriculum

• New York Times Highlights AAC&U Member Schools
• Register Now for Fall Conferences on Diversity and Learning and Faculty Work
• New Resources from Spring Network for Academic Renewal Conferences Available
• 2006 AAC&U Summer Institutes Foster Campus Collaboration and Innovative Educational Reform Plans
• Nominations Accepted for Cross Future Leaders Awards
• AAC&U Responds to Draft Report of Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education
• AAC&U Announces New National Initiative on Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
• Council of Europe Forum Focuses Attention on Higher Education and Democracy
• New Study from Campus Diversity Initiative Examines Decline in Economic Diversity on California Campuses
• Integrative Learning Project Makes Final Connections
• AAC&U Releases Documentary on HIV Education
• AAC&U Appoints Terry Rhodes as Vice President for Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment
• Liberal Education Features Highlights of 2006 Annual Meeting
• New Issue of Peer Review Focuses on First-Year Programs
• Diversity Digest Explores the Role of Science in Global Learning

Study Finds Majority of Americans Disappointed with Standards in Public Schools

The Problem with Standardized Assessment

By David Eubanks, in University Business (June 2006)

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AAC&U News is written and edited by Michael Ferguson and the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Katherine Faigen, AAC&U's editorial intern, also contributed to this issue. If you have questions or comments about the newsletter's contents, please e-mail ferguson@aacu.org.