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Meetings and Institutes

• Submit Proposals for 2011 AAC&U Annual Meeting on Global Positioning
  
• Register for Fall Network Meetings on Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence; Undergraduate Research
  
• Proposals due June 30 for General Education Meeting
  
• Proposals due August 31 for Engaged STEM Learning Meeting
  
• Campuses and State Systems from Seventy Institutions, Twenty-Nine States, and Three Countries Attend AAC&U 2010 Summer Institutes
  
• AAC&U to Cosponsor E-Portfolio Meeting in Boston—Terrel Rhodes Featured as Plenary Speaker
  
  

LEAP News

• LEAP’s National Leadership Council Members Speak Out on Importance of Both Humanities and STEM Learning
• University of Wisconsin System Announces Annual LEAP Student Essay Winners
  
  

PKAL News

• Project Kaleidoscope Launches New Blog
• PKAL Names New Advisory Board

Project Highlights

• AAC&U Receives Grant from Henry Luce Foundation to Support General Education for a Global Century
  

Other AAC&U News

• AC&U President Issues Statement on Three-Year Degree Proposals:  They are Not Silver Bullets and Will Shortchange Students
• Susan Albertine Appointed Vice President of the Office of Engagement, Inclusion, and Success
  
• Alma Clayton-Pedersen Appointed as Senior Scholar
  
• ACAD Dean Resource Handbook Summer Sale
  

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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@aacu.org.