Wye Seminars at the Aspen Institute
About Wye Seminars
The Association of American Colleges and Universities is pleased to have a strong history of working with The Aspen Institute, whose mission is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
AAC&U and The Aspen Institute co-sponsor two seminars each summer, both held at the Aspen Wye River campus in Maryland.
Wye Chief Academic Officers' Seminar: Citizenship in the Polity
In June 2008, the Aspen Institute and AAC&U will inaugurate the Wye Chief Academic Officers' Seminar on the beautiful Wye Campus of the Aspen Institute. Held June 15-20, the Seminar will focus on what our students need to know and what we need to teach in a diverse, challenging, global world.
The Wye Chief Academic Officers' Seminar will attract CAO's from a wide range of colleges and universities interested in broad issues of citizenship and civil society. The seminar will address the importance of exchanging ideas with colleagues from other colleges and universities while probing the fundamental values and goals that are the reason for our institutional existence. Readings are selected to challenge participants to focus on values such as individual rights and responsibilities both nationally and globally, and the public purposes of education in a free, democratic republic. (The reading list for the 2008 Seminar is available here.)
For the past thirty years, an interdisciplinary cross-section of thoughtful faculty have enjoyed stimulating discussions in formal seminars with time to read, reflect, exercise, and socialize at the bucolic Aspen Wye River campus on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Alumni of these seminars have consistently praised the week at Wye and the many benefits they bring back to their home campuses. We are now able to inaugurate a similar seminar exclusively to Chief Academic Officers.
More information is available from The Aspen Institute. (The deadline for registering for the Wye Chief Academic Officers’ Seminar was February 25, 2008. Information about the 2009 Seminar will be posted in the near future.)
Wye Faculty Seminar: Citizenship in the Polity
The Wye Faculty Seminar—to be held July 19-25, 2008—combines three essential ingredients: to gather a diverse group of thoughtful men and women in intellectually rigorous roundtable discussions; to explore significant texts for the power of ideas on fundamental issues in our society; and to translate ideas into action suitable to the challenge of our age. Participants in the Seminar read classical and contemporary texts on Citizenship, the American Polity, and Global Values, discussing ideas and challenges that nurture and invigorate their teaching. (The reading list for the 2008 Seminar is available here.) More information is available from The Aspen Institute. (Nominations were due April 1, 2008. Information about the 2009 Seminar will be posted in the near future.)
AAC&U’s Annual Meeting includes a demonstration seminar, open to AAC&U member provosts and deans, which provides an opportunity to preview the intellectual values and practices of the Wye Faculty Seminar.
For more information about all Wye Seminars, please call
410-820-5374 or send an e-mail to Charlene Costello at The Aspen Institute.
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