| The Greater Expectations Institute on Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement is designed for campuses that are already working on ways to strengthen student engagement, create an inclusive environment, and support high achievement for all students in college. Campus leadership teams come to the Institute with a specific project on which they will work during the 5-day program to enrich and deepen their campus efforts.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities has worked for the last three years to define the outcomes of a 21st century liberal education and identify strategies for achieving them. That effort has culminated in the recent release of a ground-breaking report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. The report calls for campuses to create environments that develop intentional learners who are well prepared to flourish in a complex, diverse, and interdependent world.
We invite you to join in the work of creating and sustaining this invigorated liberal education for your students by applying to send a team to the Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement.
The Institute is designed for campuses that are already working on ways to strengthen student engagement, create an inclusive environment, and support high achievement for all students in college. Campus leadership teams come to the Institute with a specific project on which they will work during the 5-day program to enrich and deepen their campus efforts.
Over the course of the Institute, teams consult with national experts, explore effective practices with Institute faculty, and learn from the challenges of other teams engaged in similar educational change efforts. Teams develop a concrete plan of action that serves as a blueprint for divisional, departmental, and/or campus-wide action. The Institute addresses the urgent question of how to create campus environments that engage, include, and challenge all students while taping innovations already in place that strengthen the quality of undergraduate learning.
The Institute provides opportunities and resources for campus teams to explore how their institutional systems and structures can sustain their various efforts to create campuses that:
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provide students a range of pathways to become more intentional learners; and
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assure that all students flourish in a robust academic environment.
The Institute is designed to help leadership teams gain the knowledge and skills to lead change efforts designed to create learning-centered campuses. Change agendas featured will be mindful of and responsive to:
- the broad diversity of student bodies (strengths as well as needs);
- diversity as a teaching and learning resource that benefits everyone;
- faculty needs, roles, and responsibilities (research aspirations, as well as teaching and service requirements)
- internal and external communities (expectations of and contributions to the campus); and
- institutional contexts (diverse missions, as well as pressures and resource constraints).
We know that you want to develop an engaged, inclusive, and academically challenging campus for all your students. We invite you to create a team of your current and emerging leaders and apply to join us in Denver, Colorado to develop an action plan for achieving it. Building on the past two Institutes, we have designed an interactive experience that allows you to be both learners and teachers while participating in the national effort to raise the quality of undergraduate education.
Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Vice President
Office of Education and Institutional Renewal
Director, Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement
Andrea Leskes, Vice President
Office of Education and Quality Initiatives
Director, Greater Expectations Initiative
The Greater Expectations Institute is designed for institutions that are already working to build campus environments that foster all students' engagement, inclusion, and high achievement. The specific goals of the Institute are to:
- share and advance strategies for developing campus cultures that foster high levels of achievement for all students;
- study and learn how best to apply effective practices-including diversity practices-that help students become more intentional about their learning;
- help participants gain new insights and develop specific strategies to accomplish their student engagement, inclusion, and achievement goals;
- create campus-specific action plans that will help strengthen the quality of student learning;
- aid campus leaders in building institutional capacity to become learning-centered; and
- build a national leadership network focused on greater expectations for student learning.
Participation will be especially fruitful for faculty and administrators interested in:
- building institutional capacity and individual leadership skills to design intentional and inclusive learning environments;
- developing internal and external collaborations to implement and sustain such environments; and
- drawing on the diversity of every student as a learning resource for all students.
Participation in the Institute is through a campus team, including the chief academic officer and three or four other faculty members and senior leaders who are significantly engaged in creating a learning-centered culture. Campuses are strongly encouraged to include a student member in their teams. All accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities are eligible to apply.
Additional Information
If you have any questions about this or future institutes, send a message to meetings@aacu.org.
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