2010 Greater Expectations Institute
Leadership to Make Excellence Inclusive
June 15-19, 2010 | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
Who Should Attend?
The Institute is most helpful for campuses that have made some progress in designing or establishing educational environments that foster inclusion, engagement, and success for all students.
- If your campus must prepare for reaccreditation, the Institute will help
your team center this work on the essential learning outcomes all students
need and provide ways to assess them.
- If your state system leaders are grappling with how to advance educational
change efforts within and across your campuses, the Institute will offer
insight from AAC&U’s work in state systems that will help address the
challenges of systemic change efforts.
- If your institution has developed many innovative programs, but they
lack coherence, the Institute will help your team bridge these innovations
and align resources to support your campus’ best educational practices
to foster student success.
- IIf your academic and student affairs units are not collaborating effectively
to achieve student learning outcomes, the Institute will provide the
venue 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
specific strategies to address this challenge and will help foster shared
commitment to high achievement for all students.
- If your campus is trying to instill both academic skills and a strong sense
of personal and social responsibility in your students, Institute participation
will help your team craft a coherent plan to integrate these goals.
Campus Participation and Team Composition
A campus team typically consists of a team leader
and four team members. Team leaders should consider including
people with different perspectives on the work and who reflect the broad
diversity of campus communities. Teams should include individuals who are
significantly involved in the project that the team will bring to the Institute,
as well as 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, community members, or others with the
capacity and commitment
to carry
out the action plan.
Students offer a
unique and valuable
perspective about
their learning goals
and experiences and
should be seriously
considered as a
part of every team.
Ideally, the team’s sphere of influence to enhance student and organizational
learning would reach multiple levels and settings. All teams must include a
senior academic officer.
Please see the links on the sidebar for more information or contact Nakia Bell at 202-387-3760 ext. 407 or bell@aacu.org.
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