Board Statements, Public Statements, and Letters
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- Statement of Remembrance of Manning Marable (April 6, 2011)
- AAC&U Statement on the Lumina Foundation for Education's Proposed Degree Qualifications Profile (January 25, 2011)
- Letter to the Editor of The Washington Post about the Importance of a College Education in Today's Economy. See excerpted letter published in The Washington Post on September 15, 2010. (September 15, 2010)
- Statement of Remembrance for
Daniel Schorr (July 26, 2010)
- Statement of Remembrance for Charles Muscatine (March 23, 2010)
- AAC&U Statement of Support in the Aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake (January 14, 2010)
- AAC&U Issues Statement of Remembrance for Eric Dey (November 9, 2009)
- Statement of Remembrance of William R. O'Connell, Jr. (October 26, 2009)
- Statement of Remembrance of Myles Brand (September 2009)
- Letter to Congress Urging Support for the “DREAM” Act (pdf, July 1, 2009)
- Letter to Congress Urging Maintenance of Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions (pdf, June 19, 2009)
- Statement of Remembrance of Ronald Takaki (June 2009)
- New Leadership for Student Learning and Accountability (pdf, January 30, 2008, issued jointly with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation)
Also see Senator Lamar Alexander's (R - Tennessee) endorsement of the statement.
- AAC&U sends message to members on third draft report from Spellings Commission (August 2006)
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a commentary by AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider titled, “'Degrees for What Jobs?' Wrong Question, Wrong Answers.” In this opinion article, President Schneider notes that the recent NGA Center for Best Practices report, Degrees for What Jobs?, makes “short-sighted policy recommendations [that] would do nothing to meet the nation’s long-term needs for intellectual capital and could well deplete the learning this country needs, both for individual students and the global economy.” Schneider notes that, “the NGA report seems stuck in an obsolete mindset that sees learning in a job-related major as the only goal that matters.” She argues, instead, that employers consistently say that to achieve the outcomes most important in today’s workplace, “students need more liberal education, not less.”
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President Carol Geary Schneider sent a letter to the editor of Newsweek responding to their article published on April 5, 2010 called “The Death of the Liberal Arts,” making the point that liberal education is very much alive and, in fact, in the midst of a resurgence. She notes the importance of liberal education outcomes in today’s world and references the research from LEAP on how much employers value it, and why liberal education outcomes are, in fact, rewarded in today’s job market (ppt).
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President Carol Geary Schneider sent the following response to a New York Times article on humanities justifying their worth,
pointing out that in its LEAP initiative, AAC&U “emphasizes the need to help students learn how to connect their college learning with real-world problems, examined choices, and responsible action both in their personal lives and in their working lives.”
- President Carol Geary Schneider responds to a recent commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education in which Richard Hersh and Richard Keeling argue for the importance of liberal education and criticize a recent statement of the National Association of Scholars. In her letter, President Schneider notes the revitalization of liberal education AAC&U’s LEAP initiative is making visible.
- Letter to the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education stating that "the most visionary [colleges and universities] are creating a new liberal education that helps students develop big-picture understanding and sophisticated intellectual capacities, as well as the practical acumen to get things done in the real world" (November 30, 2007, subscription required).
- Opposing op-ed piece in USA Today about choosing a major in high school. (September 4, 2007)
- Letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal in response to a Peter Berkowitz column on "Compassless Colleges," citing the efforts of the LEAP campaign. (September 11, 2007)
- An Urgent Agenda in Inside Higher Ed (February 9, 2007)
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