Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility

Overview

A signature AAC&U initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility

• focuses national attention on the importance of students’ exploring questions about ethical responsibility to self and others,
  
  
• aims to reclaim and revitalize the academy’s role in fostering students’ development of personal and social responsibility,  and
  
  
• helps campuses create learning environments that prepare students to fulfill their obligations in an academic community and as global and local citizens.
  

Core Commitments was developed in concert with AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiative, which champions a set of learning outcomes—including personal and social responsibility—that are essential for all college students in the 21st century.

Components

Core Commitments includes

• a presidential Call to Action,
  
  
• the development of a campus climate survey instrument:
  Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Inventory,
  
  
• a Leadership Consortium of 23 institutions that identify, create and disseminate promising practices and innovative programs, and
  
  
• a collection of Resources and series of Events.

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Rationale and Background

Core Commitments is supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

For more information, please call Michèle Leaman at 202-387-3760, ext. 429, or email leaman@aacu.org.