2008 Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement
June 18-22, 2008 | Snowbird, Utah
Congratulations to the following schools that have been selected to participate in the 2008 Greater Expectations Institute. We look forward to working with you.
Aurora University
Baldwin-Wallace College
Cleveland State University
Ferrum College
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Kapi'olani Community College
Marquette University
Monmouth University
Pepperdine University
Philadelphia University
Point Loma Nazarene University
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Salt Lake Community College
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
United States Military Academy
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Idaho
University of La Verne
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Utah State Board of Regents
Utah Valley State College
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Wartburg College
Weber State University
Woodbury University
About the Institute
The Institute is a five-day, intensive program designed for campuses working on ways to increase student engagement, inclusion, and high achievement. The Institute will help you align institutional purposes, structures, and practices as well as advance and assess a set of essential liberal education outcomes outlined in AAC&U’s signature reports, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College and College Learning for the New Global Century, such as critical inquiry, intercultural competence, and integrative learning. Our setting—nestled in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah—will provide an ideal retreat for this important work.
What you can expect from the Institute
Campus leadership teams come to the Institute to advance a specific educational change project. The Institute will help you align the project to your institution’s mission, clarify your desired outcomes, create a comprehensive vision for change, refine your planning and processes, and build a culture that fosters student and institutional learning. While in Snowbird, teams will confer with expert faculty; explore more deeply the issues of engagement, inclusion, and high achievement; learn from other teams engaged in a rich variety of educational change efforts; and develop a concrete plan for departmental, divisional, or campus-wide action.
For the fourth year, we are pleased to offer team leaders the opportunity to participate in a leadership development workshop. This pre-Institute session is designed to help leaders maximize their teams’ experiences in Snowbird and develop skills in building consensus, understanding group dynamics, aligning institutional structures, and managing change. Team leaders will be invited to participate once their teams are accepted into the Institute. The workshop will entail a separate registration fee, which will cover a guestroom for one night, lunch, refreshments, and materials.
At the 2008 Institute, you will find an increased focus on teaching, learning, and assessment, as well as underserved student achievement that is keyed to essential learning outcomes. Previous Institute teams have reported success in engaging greater numbers of constituents in their change efforts, enacting comprehensive action plans, obtaining significant external grants, and securing ongoing internal funding for campus-wide action.
Standard of Excellence Framework
The Greater Expectations Institute curriculum grows out of AAC&U’s long-standing work in diversity and educational quality, most recently brought together under a major initiative, Making Excellence Inclusive. Our framework rests on two beliefs: that a high-quality, practical liberal education should be the standard of excellence for all students, and that diversity and intercultural competence are essential elements of a contemporary liberal education. AAC&U is a national resource for campuses looking to create and sustain diverse learning environments; the Institute focuses on developing the collaborative leadership needed to do so.
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