Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)

The Leadership Fund for Liberal Education

To complement AAC&U’s support from institutions, the Association has been strengthening partnerships with its closest friends and affiliates, and with the higher education community as a whole, to build support for our integrated leadership vision.  One part of this plan is the Leadership Fund for Liberal Education.

What Does It Support?

The Leadership Fund provides a way for individuals committed to the value and power of a liberal education to help support AAC&U’s leadership for this purpose.

• Revenues from the Leadership Fund enable AAC&U to extend work on  major, multi-year initiatives with campuses when grant funding ends and to start work in newly-identified directions in advance of or in the absence of grant support.
• Gifts to the Leadership Fund are restricted to AAC&U’s major educational initiatives.
• Gifts to the Leadership Fund provide increased flexibility to AAC&U,    allowing support to be directed when it is needed to the major program areas of greatest concern to our members and the field of higher education.

Currently, the Leadership Fund for Liberal Education primarily supports AAC&U’s major initiative Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP). Support for LEAP helps us highlight the best work on campuses and provides resources and leadership for teaching and advocacy on behalf of students.

Over the long term, this fund helps AAC&U to better fulfill its mission of providing broad leadership both within the academic community and in American society by

• providing resources to commission analysis and research on an “as-needed” basis;
• mobilizing influential leadership and advocacy on educational issues of high priority to the academic community;
• creating generative connections among colleges and universities that are themselves advancing new directions for liberal education in today’s society.

Online donations may be made to the leadership fund via this online giving form.

For more information about the Leadership Fund for Liberal Education please contact the Development Office, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1818 R Street, N.W., Washington, DC  20009-1604, (202) 884-7421 or Development@aacu.org.