| Speakers Added to 2009 Annual Meeting In Seattle
AAC&U’s 2009 Annual Meeting, Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise, will be held in Seattle, Washington, January 21-24, 2009. Recently added speakers include Eric Liu, fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The True Patriot and The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker; and Stephanie Pfirman, chair of the department of environmental science at Barnard College and president-elect of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors. Other speakers include Peter Sacks, author of Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education; Molly Corbett Broad, president of ACE; Carol Geary Schneider, president of AAC&U; Mimi Gardner Gates, director of the Seattle Art Museum; George Kuh of Indiana University; and Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, and William Sullivan of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A premeeting symposium titled “Sustainability: Place, Responsibilities, and the Curriculum,” is scheduled for January 21. Online registration will be available September 15.
Register for Fall Meetings on “Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence” and “Engaging Science”
Take advantage of early registration discounts and register now for AAC&U’s fall meetings, Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress, to be held October 16-18, 2008, in Long Beach, California, and Engaging Science, Advancing Learning: General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century set for November 6-8, 2008, in Providence, Rhode Island. The diversity and learning conference will highlight curricular, cocurricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments. The science meeting will explore the place and practice of science in college learning for the twenty-first century, and ways to accelerate hands-on learning in science, especially with reforms that put critical inquiry, undergraduate research, and social responsibility at the center of the educational experience.
Know a Graduate Student of Outstanding Promise as a Leader?
AAC&U is now accepting nominations for the 2009 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards. This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. A list of past winners can be found online. The deadline for nominations is October 6, 2008.
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New Brochure Introduces Value of Liberal Education to Students |
The LEAP initiative has developed a brochure for students, “Liberal Education and America’s Promise: An Introduction for Students,” which introduces and explains in clear terms why the outcomes of a liberal education are important and can give them an edge in school, life, and in their future careers. It quotes CEOs who believe a liberal education is central to students' professional success, and features ten questions designed to help students construct a purposeful pathway through college. The brochure can be used for freshman and transfer-student orientation, academic advising for students at all levels, first-year seminars, departmental orientation and advising programs, and recruiting sessions for college-bound students. Find more information or place an order online.
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AAC&U President to Lead Teleconference on “Liberal Education for Everyone” |
AC&U President Carol Schneider will conduct a teleconference sponsored by Inside Higher Ed on September 11, 2008, on the topic of "Liberal Education for Everyone—Transforming Professional and Liberal Arts Programs." Featuring research and insights from AAC&U’s LEAP initiative, the teleconference will examine the increasing importance of liberal education outcomes and how both professional studies and liberal arts and sciences departments are essential to fulfilling the promise of higher education for today’s students. See Inside Higher Ed Teleconferences for more information and to register.
Core Commitments Symposium on Perspective-Taking Open for Registration
The AAC&U initiative Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility is sponsoring a symposium on “taking seriously the perspectives of others” on October 15-16, 2008, in Long Beach, California, directly preceding the AAC&U conference on Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence. The symposium is designed for campus leaders who want to enhance programs and practices that help students engage diverse and competing perspectives as a resource for learning, citizenship, and work. Participants will receive resources developed to date through the initiative; consider their current programs and practices in light of holistic and developmental frameworks for education for personal and social responsibility; and learn about new campus climate data on perspective-taking gathered through the project. Speakers include L. Lee Knefelkamp, director of dialogue and assessment for Core Commitments and professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Laura I. Rendón, professor and department chair in educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University. Registration is limited to ensure an interactive, working symposium. Visit the symposium Web page to learn more and to register.
Register, Submit Proposals for AAC&U’s Bringing Theory to Practice 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 students’ own perspectives inform not only the work of the BTtoP Project, but also all college and university campus cultures. Featured speakers will include Alison Malmon, founder and executive director of Active Minds Inc., and Joyce Bylander, special assistant to the president for institutional and diversity initiatives at Dickinson College, as well as students and recent college graduates. Student proposals for conference sessions will be accepted through September 19, 2008. Accepted proposals come with a $200 travel stipend to attend the conference. For more information, see the call for proposals, or register online.
New AAC&U Publication on “Creating the Entrepreneurial University”
In Creating the Entrepreneurial University to Support Liberal Education, Samuel M. Hines Jr. makes the case for liberal education as a necessary foundation for the entrepreneurial culture and leadership he believes will be required to sustain the financial and intellectual integrity of the twenty-first-century university. In addition to fostering entrepreneurial skills and values in their students, Hines argues, faculty and other campus leaders also need to become more entrepreneurial themselves. Responses from Daniel Bernstine, Anthony Carnevale, Eric Gould, and Elizabeth Minnich are included. This publication was produced with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also recently released a report on the role of entrepreneurship in higher education. That report may be downloaded from the Kauffman Foundation Web site. See the AAC&U publications Web page to order Creating the Entrepreneurial University.
Peer Review Political Engagement Issue Now Available
Just in time for election season, Peer Review’s spring/summer 2008 issue is now available. Focusing on student political engagement, the issue considers how the academy engages students in their learning today to help them grow as engaged citizens for tomorrow. It focuses on democratic political engagement and includes research, analysis, and the voices of current college students and recent graduates. See the table of contents and selected articles online, or order copies.
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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/
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