2008 Annual Meeting
INTENTIONAL LEARNING, UNSCRIPTED CHALLENGES
Knowledge and Imagination for an Interdependent World
Conference Sponsors
The Association of American Colleges and Universities thanks the following sponsors for their generous support of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting. All will have representatives at the January meeting, and we invite you to take this opportunity to become more familiar with their products and services.
Academic Management Systems, Blackboard, Data180, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and TaskStream are all part of the conference program, as well.
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
CoursEval™
Build a “culture of evidence” in your institution’s assessment program! CoursEval™ solves the problem of cumbersome, untimely and inflexible course and instructor evaluations. CoursEval™ 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, MyCoursEval, offers a dynamic interface between CoursEval™ and Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, and other course management systems. For information, contact: Brian R. Hopewell, Academic Management Systems, 716.867.8434.
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Blackboard
Blackboard was founded in 1997 to enable educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology. Blackboard is a leading provider of e-Education enterprise software applications and services. Its products, consisting of five software applications bundled in two suites, Blackboard Academic Suite and Blackboard Commerce Suite, are licensed on a renewal basis. Blackboard’s global clients include primary and secondary schools, higher education, corporate and government markets, textbook publishers and student-focused merchants.
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.
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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. Diverse is a biweekly newsmagazine that covers hot topics, issues and events affecting diverse groups in higher education.
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TaskStream –Advancing Educational Excellence
For over a decade, TaskStream has empowered excellence in education and has been committed to helping meet educational performance challenges by providing solutions that enhance community, increase collaboration and support student-centered learning across the organization. Our Accountability Management System (AMS) provides an efficient, effective way for educational institutions to document, analyze and manage performance results across an entire campus. Our Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) support departments and instructors with innovative web-based systems for portfolio-based learning and assessment, instructional design and other tools that empower informed instruction in real-time.
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Nuventive
Nuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing and demonstrating continuous improvement in education. Our enterprise suite of software solutions: TracDat for enterprise assessment management, Insight for communicating institution wide initiatives, and iWebfolio for electronic portfolio solutions, equip individuals and organizations to better understand, assess, improve, and communicate educational quality.
Friends
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source for news and jobs for the faculty members and administrators who run America's colleges and universities. Published weekly and updated daily online, The Chronicle covers news and trends in student learning and assessment, admissions and financial aid, government actions, and much more. It also publishes Chronicle Careers, the largest job marketplace in higher education. The Chronicle hosts two important conferences for educators each year -- The Chronicle Presidents Forum (past coverage available here) and The Chronicle Technology Forum. Please visit this page to sign up for our free e-mail newsletters or to subscribe.
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The IDEA Center
The IDEA Center provides high-quality tools to aid in the assessment and improvement of instruction and learning at institutions of higher education. The Center's ongoing research division has created tools to aid in making personnel decisions and recommendations. Each instrument includes a diagnostic component, serving those who actively seek useful information to guide their improvement efforts in a well-informed, progressive direction.
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 is an independent publisher and the distributor for independent publishers and NGOs, serving teachers, administrators, and policymakers in higher education. It specializes in practical books, the exchange of ideas, and theory and research that promote effective practice. Stylus is dedicated to facilitating communication and dialogue in higher education by bringing the works of its clients to all appropriate constituencies, through all available channels.
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WEAVEonline
Designed and supported by assessment experts, WEAVEonline allows subscribers to easily manage information for an array of critical activities: quality enhancement, curriculum mapping, strategic planning, annual reporting, program reviews, and both regional and specialized accreditation. It offers three different ways to approach general education assessment. Using WEAVEonline, faculty and staff can more quickly contribute and review assessment work in a consistent format, working from any personal computer with access to the Internet. Gone are the mountains of paperwork usually associated with assessment; in their place is a convenient, intuitive solution.
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