Summer Institutes
AAC&U Summer Institutes offer campus teams a time and place for sustained collaborative work on a project of importance to their campus. Our three annual institutes include the Institute on General Education and Assessment; the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, which is the “next generation” of the former Greater Expectations Institute; and the Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments. A description of each is below, with additional information available on those Institutes’ Web pages.
AAC&U occasionally sponsors project-based summer institutes. Information about those institutes will be posted when applicable.
2013 SUMMER INSTITUTES
Institute on General Education and Assessment
June 1-5, 2013
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
About the Institute
The Institute on General Education and Assessment provides campus teams with opportunities to refine and advance general
education programs and their assessment. The Institute focuses on
building a campus learning culture for intentional, well-defined, and
meaningfully assessed general education curricula. During the Institute,
teams explore general education models, processes of redesign and
implementation of highly effective practices, clarification and
integration of learning outcomes, and strategies for assessment.
Who Should Attend
The Institute on General Education and Assessment is designed for any campus, system, or group of campuses engaged in redesigning general education for students. Campuses can be at any stage in the process of rethinking general education approaches and issues emerging from their respective needs and circumstances. Campus teams typically include a senior academic officer and faculty members working on general education committees or teaching general education courses.
Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success
June 11-14, 2013
University of Wisconsin–Madison
About the Institute
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is
designed to help campuses and systems develop institution-wide change
strategies for the benefit of all students, enabling institutions to
identify areas for improvement and target interventions. Participant
teams address barriers to student success and devise integrative plans
to strengthen student learning—making intentional use of Essential
Learning Outcomes and high-impact practices across the institution.
Aiming high for all students, the Institute curriculum helps campuses
to define approaches that are highly engaging to students and effective
at improving the equitable achievement of outcomes. Highlighting the
success of students who have historically been underserved, the program
supports work to make excellence inclusive and to improve completion
of degrees. It builds on research indicating that all students benefit
from a set of high-impact practices and that less-advantaged students
benefit even more when they participate in these practices.
Who Should Attend
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is designed to help campus, system, or regional collaborative teams (faculty members, academic administrators, student affairs professionals, students) develop intentional high-impact programs and coordinated strategies for student success—programs and strategies that are engaging to students and effective at improving both persistence and essential learning outcomes, with particular benefit to students historically underserved by higher education.
Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments
July 10-14, 2013
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
About the Institute
The Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments is intended for colleges and universities interested in building faculty and departmental leadership for advancement of Essential Learning Outcomes—knowledge of multiple disciplines, inquiry and critical thinking, personal and social responsibility, civic learning, global knowledge and skills, and particularly, integrative and applied learning. Today, college graduates must be able to integrate and apply disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning in new contexts as they seek better and more responsible solutions to problems encountered in work and in society.
Who Should Attend
The Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments is designed for teams of faculty and administrators who are working to articulate and link departmental, general education, and institutional-level learning goals; encourage innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices among their colleagues; and align institutional structures to reward and sustain learning success. The Institute aims to help these teams acquire the tools needed to implement change that deepens students’ integrative capacities over time—including their ability to connect disciplinary knowledge and inquiry to responsible choices and actions.
PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for STEM Faculty
July 23-28 / July 30- August 4, 2013
Baca Campus of Colorado College
The PKAL Summer Leadership Institute I and II are designed for both early and mid-career STEM faculty engaged in leading projects aimed at transforming undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms, departments, and institutions. These five-day intensive institutes provide faculty participants with the theory and practice required to act as agents of change in their home institutions or professional societies. They are held in the heart of the Rocky Mountains at the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado. PKAL is in its fifteenth year of offering the Summer Leadership Institutes.
Applications will be available in January.
Past Summer Institutes: 2002-present
If you have any questions about AAC&U meetings, please contact us by sending an e-mail to meetings@aacu.org.
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