2009 Greater Expectations Institute: Leadership to Make Excellence Inclusive
June 17-21, 2009 | Dudley H. Davis Student Center | University of Vermont
Institute Features
Leadership Development
The ninth annual Greater Expectations Institute will focus on developing campus capacity and multilevel leadership to succeed with educational change initiatives, especially initiatives relevant to student learning, inclusive excellence, and assessment of programs. Teams will learn how to tap the contributions of various campus cultures and constituents to advance educational change efforts. Campus teams will consider these issues in the context of their specific educational change projects and in relation to institutional-level change more generally.
Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility
This year’s Institute will also focus on a set of learning outcomes essential for success in the twenty-first century and too often neglected in campuswide planning. Participants will explore ways to facilitate students’ exploration of questions about ethical responsibility to self and others, more precisely define the academy’s role in fostering students’ development of personal and social responsibility, and create learning environments that prepare students to fulfill their obligations in an academic community, and as global and local citizens. This focus will draw on the research and lessons learned from AAC&U’s initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility.
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