2010 Greater Expectations Institute
Leadership to Make Excellence Inclusive
June 16-20, 2010
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Campus Participation: Who Should Attend?
The Institute is most helpful for campuses that have made some progress in designing or establishing educational environments that foster engagement, inclusion, and success for all students. All accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities are eligible to apply.
- If your institution has developed many educationally innovative programs, but they are isolated from one another or lack an integrating coherence, the Institute will help your campus team bridge islands of innovation and align resources to support your campus’ best educational practices to foster student success.
- If your academic and student affairs units are not collaborating effectively to achieve student learning outcomes, the Institute will provide the venue, time, and expertise to help your team examine and communicate your mutual goals for student learning and develop a plan for coordinated and complementary action.
- If some faculty members want to implement learning-centered educational change while others cherish the status quo, the Institute will offer your team specific strategies to address this challenge and will help foster shared commitment toward achieving greater expectations for all students.
- If your campus must prepare for regional or specialized reaccreditation, the Institute will help your team center this work on the essential learning outcomes all students need for the twenty-first century and provide guidance about ways to assess them.
- If your campus is trying to develop in students both academic skills and a strong sense of personal and social responsibility, Institute participation will help teams craft a coherent plan to integrate these multiple goals of a twenty-first-century liberal education.
Team Composition
A campus team typically consists of a team leader and four team members. Teams should include individuals who are significantly involved in the project the team will work on at the Institute to improve student engagement, inclusion, and success. Teams should also include key individuals who could extend the reach of these efforts. Team membership should include current and emerging faculty leaders from various disciplines, department chairs, student affairs educators, institutional researchers, registrars, librarians, or others with the capacity and commitment to carry out the action plan. All teams must include a senior academic officer.
Team leaders should consider including people with different perspectives on the work and reflect the broad diversity of campus communities. Teams are strongly encouraged to include an undergraduate student, a graduate student, or a community member. Ideally, the team’s sphere of influence to enhance student learning would reach multiple levels and settings.
Please see the 2009 Greater Expectations Institute brochure (pdf) and the sidebar for more information about past Institutes. For more information, contact Nakia Bell at 202-387-3760 ext. 407 or bell@aacu.org.
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