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Liberal Education
Current Issue:
Summer 2006, Vol. 92, No. 3
2006 Annual Meeting
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U's 2006 annual meeting, “Demanding Excellence: Liberal Education in an Era of Global Competition, Anti-Intellectualism, and Disinvestment.” Included are selected papers presented at the meeting. Additional articles explore collaborative scholarship and tenure, faculty engagement in the liberal arts, and the “success” of learning communities.
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CONTENTS:
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President’s Message
Accountability: From Weak Choices to Best Work
By Carol Geary Schneider
As we await the recommendations of the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education, AAC&U leaders are following the accountability debates with particular attention, because they dovetail with our own continuing focus on the aims and outcomes of a twenty-first-century liberal education.
From the Editor
News and Information
FEATURED TOPIC
Liberal Education and the Republic of the Imagination
By Azar Nafisi
Imaginative knowledge provides us with a way to see ourselves in the world, to relate to the world, and thereby, to act in the world.
Spiraling through the Glass Ceiling: Seven Critical Lessons for Negotiating a Leadership Position in Higher Education
By Ronald A. Crutcher
When climbing a spiral staircase, you inevitably return to the same point on a vertical line but at a higher level. And so it is with life’s experiences.
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
By Richard Florida
The United States is currently undergoing a dramatic economic transformation, shifting from an economy based on physical inputs to one based on intellectual inputs, or human creativity.
What is the role of colleges and universities in the creative age?
LIBERAL EDUCATION & AMERICA'S PROMISE
Meeting New Challenges at Home and Abroad: Liberal Education’s New Premium
By Barbara Lawton
With broad commitment and bold leadership, the LEAP campaign can help inform how government and educational institutions evolve to support citizens’ success in this time of flux, drive development of appropriate metrics to measure their effectiveness and assign responsibility for meeting those goals, and invite unprecedented partnerships to sustain them.
PERSPECTIVES
Significant Contributions to Collaborative Scholarship and Tenure
By Peter A. Facione
Senior academic leaders are in consensus that, for purposes of tenure, a candidate’s significant contributions to collaborative scholarship should be valued highly. But operationally, what counts as a potentially significant contribution? An informal survey of senior-level academic administrators explored the nature and significance of individual contributions to collaborative scholarship.
Shooting the Gap: Engaging Today’s Faculty in the Liberal Arts
By Dennis Damon Moore
The outcomes of a project of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest reveal how new developments in interdisciplinary and skills-oriented offerings and programs have brought faculty members together in new conversations that have benefited those faculty members, the students they teach, and the institutions they serve.
A Success Story: Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Minority Doctoral Students in Biomedical Engineering
By William M. Reichert
The biomedical engineering program at Duke University has lately succeeded in solving one of the most persistent problems in math, science, and engineering graduate education: the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority doctoral students.
MY VIEW
Confessions of a Learning Community Coordinator
By Michael Mendelson
As he reflects on his experience, a learning community coordinator is troubled by a gap between the official success of the learning community initiative on his campus and his own lingering disappointment. Could his disappointment signify
a general challenge to the broader learning community movement itself?
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