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AAC&U
Chooses 18 Colleges and Universities to Lead Initiative on
Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility
The
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
announced the 18 institutions chosen to participate in the
Core Commitments Leadership Consortium. These schools will
lead the first phase of
a national initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students
for Personal and Social Responsibility. The initiative
seeks to embed personal and social responsibility objectives
pervasively across the institution in both the curricular
and co-curricular experiences as key educational outcomes
for all students.
The
18 participating institutions were selected both on the basis
of work already accomplished in the spirit of Core Commitments
and on an articulated plan to deepen and extend that work
on campus. Selected as Leadership Consortium of Core Commitments
were:
Babson
College, MA
Bowling Green State University, OH
California State University-Northridge, CA
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Miami University, OH
Michigan State University, MI
Middlesex Community College, MA
Oakland Community College, MI
Rollins College, FL |
Saint
Mary's College of California, CA
St. Lawrence University, NY
Tulane University, LA
United States Air Force Academy, CO
University of Alabama Birmingham, AL
University of Central Florida, FL
University of the Pacific, CA
Wagner College, NY
Winthrop University, SC |
Consortium
members receive a $25,000 award and have committed $25,000
in institutional matching funds over two years to provide
students with purposeful and progressively challenging educational
experiences leading to the targeted outcomes of the Core Commitments
initiative. As part of their plans, campus leadership
teams will administer a new Personal and Social Responsibility
Institutional Inventory to students, faculty, student affairs
administrators, and academic administrators to measure the
impact of existing campus efforts. The results will
be used to shape future work at each institution and across
the consortium.
For
more information on the initiative, please visit www.aacu.org/core_commitments.
Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and
Social Responsibility is supported by a generous grant
from the John Templeton Foundation.
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