2007 Annual Meeting

THE REAL TEST: 
Liberal Education and Democracy’s Big Questions

Conference Sponsors

The Association of American Colleges and Universities extends its appreciation to the following sponsors for their generous support of AAC&U’s 2007 Annual Meeting.

 We particularly thank Chartwells Educational Dining Services for its sponsorship of AAC&U's Welcoming Reception.

The Chartwells Promise
Nourishing students is not only our business; it is our commitment to the communities in which we serve.  Chartwells is a diverse family of dedicated food and nutrition specialists serving the academic community.  We deliver customized solutions that benefit our partners through innovative programs.

Contributing Sponsors

Academic Management Systems

CourseEval™
Build a “culture of evidence” in your institution’s assessment program!  CourseEval™  solves the problem of cumbersome, untimely and inflexible course and instructor evaluations.  CourseEval™ software gives deans and faculty the means to create, deploy, and analyze surveys that cover a wide range of assessment needs; peer and self-assessments, formative and summative assessments, longitudinal and cohort assessments – across courses, departments and schools. Our new remote portal tool, MyCourseEval, offers a dynamic interface between CourseEval™   and Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, and other course management systems.  For information, contact:  Brian R. Hopewell, Academic Management Systems, 716.867.8434.

DIVERSE Issues in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has been America’s premier source of timely news, provocative commentary, insightful interviews, and in-depth special reports on diversity in higher education for over two decades. Leaders from academe, industry and public policy have all come to rely on this award-winning news magazine to stay abreast of the trends and issues that go to the very core of the future of this country and its place in an ever-changing world. Published 26 times (biweekly) each year, no other educational publication addresses the myriad diversity issues facing American higher education like Diverse.

Friends

Data180  –  Data Solutions for Academe
Data180 partners with colleges and universities to build online IT solutions for their data needs. The following is a description of our products:      

• Assess180—Collects assessment measures of student learning.  Documents compliance with accreditation standards, course objectives and institutional goals. 
• Faculty180—Captures faculty members’ credentials and their activities related to teaching, research and service.  Provides dynamic reporting capabilities to meet the needs of internal decision-makers, accrediting bodies and other external users.
• Student180—Gathers students’ academic and co-curricular accomplishments.  Provides a professional resume and portfolio for student use, and creates co-curricular transcripts for institutional use.
• Survey180—Collects students’ perceptions at graduation and interim dates.  Provides trends and benchmarked feedback on the perceived quality of academic experiences and administrative services; also documents student internships and job offers.

Inside Higher Education
Inside Higher Education is the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Breaking news, lively commentary, and thousands of job listings draw an engaged readership of more than 350,000 each month. Daily. Online. Free. Ahead of the curve. Join the new conversation in higher education at Inside Higher Education.

Stylus Publishing, LLC
Stylus Publishing, LLC publishes books and journals on higher education that emphasize practical application. Areas covered include administration, assessment, diversity, learning, policy, service learning, and teaching. is an independent publisher and the distributor for independent publishers and NGOs. 

TaskStream
TaskStream is the leader in web-based electronic portfolios, performance assessment, and standards-based instructional design for colleges and universities. TaskStream ‘Tools of Engagement' provides a universal toolset for outcomes assessment and reporting, Web publication of electronic portfolios and resource management.  TaskStream can be adapted and customized to achieve critical outcomes for individual educators, or departmental and college-wide programs.  The tools are on-demand, secure and scalable; no installation of hardware or software is required; subscribers interact directly through the TaskStream servers over the Internet.  Subscriptions are available at an affordable per-user price, and because the tools are delivered through the Internet, rapid implementation at low cost is readily available.

TIAA CREF
TIAA-CREF offers a wide range of investment products and services designed to meet our investors' specific financial needs, offering expert ways to help them control and manage income through retirement.  We provide unbiased, personal advice through our non-commissioned consultants, who are compensated on client service excellence, not product sales