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.
2012 SUMMER INSTITUTES
Institute on General Education and Assessment
June 2-6, 2012
The Hotel at Turf Valley, Ellicott City, Maryland
About the Institute
The Institute on General Education and Assessment provides campus teams of faculty and administrators with opportunities to refine and substantially advance campus projects on general education and its assessment. Through exploration of general education models; processes for redesigning general education courses, programs, and requirements; and successful implementation strategies, the Institute on General Education and Assessment facilitates the building of a campus learning culture based upon clear goals, intentional curricula and co-curricula, powerful instruction, and assessments to improve learning.
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 19-23, 2012
Portland State University
About the Institute
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success—formerly the Greater Expectations Institute—is designed to help campuses develop intentional and integrative plans to strengthen student learning and student success. The institute curriculum emphasizes high-impact practices and campus-wide strategies that engage students and are effective at improving both persistence and achievement of essential learning outcomes. Giving priority to the success of students who have historically been underserved by higher education, the curriculum is built on the latest research on curricular and co-curricular practices that work for all students. The institute offers innovative models of campus programs, professional development, and methods to document learning. It provides leadership development for campuses and state or state-system collaboratives dedicated to shared work for all students’ success.
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 11-15, 2012
The University of Vermont
About the Institute
The 2012 Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments is intended for colleges and universities interested in building faculty and departmental leadership for essential 21st century learning—knowledge of multiple disciplines, inquiry and critical thinking, personal and social responsibility, and particularly, integrative learning. Today more than ever, college graduates must be able to discern complexities inherent in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning, apply knowledge in new contexts, and 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 17-22, 2012 or July 31-August 5
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 fourteenth 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.
|
