AAC&U Program Offices
Office of Engagement, Inclusion, and Success
The AAC&U Office of Engagement, Inclusion, and Success (OEIS) emphasizes engaged, high-impact teaching and learning for all students, focusing on the success of a highly diverse and mobile population. OEIS puts the success of students at the center of work to transform teaching and learning, institutions and systems. The office directs AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal and its Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. It is the home to the LEAP States Initiative and participates in work to improve learning along purposeful pathways from school to and through college.
OEIS focuses attention on the first Principle of Excellence of the LEAP campaign: “Aim High—and Make Excellence Inclusive.” This principle makes a philosophical and social commitment and calls for action. OEIS thus works within AAC&U to ensure that the nation’s evolving demographic, the diverse populations of students now and to come, will benefit fully from a horizon-expanding liberal education.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications, meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this office’s resources, see especially faculty, and institutional change.
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global
Initiatives
AAC&U addresses diversity, global engagement, and social
responsibility as compelling educational and institutional
priorities that advance the civic and economic purposes of
a diverse democracy. AAC&U sees diversity and global knowledge
as essential elements of any effort to foster civic engagement
among today's college students.
AAC&U supports colleges and universities in their efforts
to create settings that foster students' understanding of
the intersection between domestic and global issues and their
sense of responsibility as local and global citizens.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications,
meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on
the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this
office’s resources, see especially diversity, civic engagement, global learning, women,
and science and health.
Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment
AAC&U works with member institutions to address the broad
individual and societal purposes of a liberal education and
to develop curricular and pedagogical practices that respond
to a changing society while providing the finest possible
education for all students and the greatest return to a democratic
society.
Through its large national initiatives, Greater Expectations:
A Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College, AAC&U
works to support learner-centered education both within institutions
and across higher education. AAC&U works with all kinds
of colleges and universities to involve both students and
faculty in forms of learning that are intellectually challenging,
educationally coherent, and responsive to the complexities
-- cultural, political, economic, technological, and scientific
-- of the contemporary world.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications,
meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on
the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this
office’s resources, see especially general education, curriculum, assessment, and science
and health.
To see personnel working in each office, see
the AAC&U Staff Directory.
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