Institute on General Education
Application Procedure
Applicants use the online form to submit names and contact information for a team leader and at least four additional team members, a President's authorization, and a narrative statement that addresses the questions below.
Please Note: Teams must include a senior academic officer and faculty members from a range of disciplines.
Questions to be addressed in the narrative
1. Need: What is your current general education model and what has motivated a desire for reform? Have assessment results prompted the review or do you need help creating an assessment plan? What work already has been accomplished and by whom? What resource or political issues are at play in the process? Has a unified vision of the planned reform emerged?
2. Goals: What high priority tasks do you expect your team to work on during the Institute? These should be the tasks that, if advanced substantially during the Institute, would lead your team and campus to judge your efforts a success. What do you expect to accomplish by the end of the Institute to take back to your campus?
3. Team characteristics: In what ways do your team members reflect the range of concerns surrounding general education reform on your campus? How do they reflect the diversity and the various interest groups on your campus?
4. Contributions: What do you believe your institution can contribute to the Institute?
The narrative should be clear and concise--no more than five pages in length. It can be uploaded to the application form as either a Word document or a PDF.
Selection Criteria
Each application will be judged principally on the evidence it presents that the Institute will assist the applying institution in its general education initiative. Reviewers will also balance a number of other considerations to assure a representative group of participants--for example, institutional type and project focus.
Application Deadline
Applications should be received by February 22, 2008
- Notification will be sent by March 10, 2008
For additional information contact Ross Miller at 202.884.0803, miller@aacu.org or Gretchen Sauvey at 202.884.7413, sauvey@aacu.org.
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