Bringing Theory to Practice Project
5th National Annual Working Conference
Effects, Affects, and Patterns of Behaviors:
Identifying Outcomes of Liberal Education
January 23-24, 2008
Washington, DC
Bringing Theory to Practice was excited to have joined AAC&U's Pre-Meeting Symposium No Longer Optional: Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility for the first day of our 5th National Annual Working Conference. Participants of both meetings came together for the opening session of the day and for the luncheon. For all other sessions, participants were welcome to attend the presentations of either meeting.
Learning, knowledge gain, critical skills, discovery, self-realization, awareness of privilege and perspective, civic development, well-being…the “outcomes” of a liberal education are the promises of every academic institution.
Beyond the appeal of presenting these outcomes as the anticipated results of a liberal education, what do we know about them? Are institutions intentional about students achieving each of them? How, and to what degree? Is there an intellectual source for these outcomes rather than others? Do we have any basis for determining whether to what extent these outcomes are gained? Or persist?
The BTtoP 5th National Annual Working Conference helped to focus attention on moving beyond the language of outcomes to a deeper understanding of their nature and extent, and to the programmatic and pedagogical initiatives that are being taken on many campuses that appear to assist in the achievement of them.
Ashley Finley, National Cross-Site Evaluator for BTtoP Demonstration Program, Presentation "What the BTtoP Project Has Learned and Why It Makes a Difference"
Conference Location
The Working Conference was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, located in downtown Washington, DC
Grand Hyatt Hotel
1000 H Street, NW Washington, DC
AAC&U's 2008 Annual Meeting
The Bringing Theory to Practice Project's 5th National Annual Working Conference is held in conjunction with the AAC&U 2008 Annual Meeting
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