Previous Issues

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		Lessons on Systemic Reform from the LEAP States Initiative Spring 2011 This issue highlights lessons learned from AAC&U’s LEAP States initiative. It features educational and curricular reform work of institutions and state systems involved in the LEAP States Initiative—focusing on how selected state systems are using the LEAP essential learning outcomes as a shared framework for student achievement, accountability, school-college alignment, and underserved student success. The lessons learned can be useful to those in a wide range of institutions working toward educational reform. Buy Now
		Returning Adult Students Winter 2011 Adult students comprise a growing population on college campuses. This issue features a range of programs that ensure returning adult and other nontraditional students receive the full array of liberal education outcomes. Buy Now
		Internships and Experiential Learning Fall 2010 Articles in this issue present best practices for creating internships and other experiential learning opportunities that allow students to extend classroom learning and apply their knowledge and skills in real-world settings. Buy Now
		The Future of the Faculty: Collaborating to Cultivate Change Summer 2010 This issue explores new strategies for diversifying the faculty and developing their effectiveness as teachers and engaged scholars. This issue draws on discussions from the 2009 Faculty Resource Network/Leadership Alliance special joint session on The Future of the Professoriate. Buy Now

		Undergraduate Research Spring 2010 This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community through mentored experiences in various disciplines. These programs strive to provide students with hands-on opportunities to participate in original research projects and to engage in creative activities and scholarship under the guidance of experienced faculty members. Articles focus on undergraduate research in the arts and humanities, as well as in STEM disciplines, and describe models for first-year and lower-division students. Buy Now

		Engaging Departments Winter 2010 This issue explores how departments are developing assessment approaches that deepen student learning. Recognizing that most faculty identify strongly with their discipline and that students are engaged in more complex and sophisticated practice of liberal learning as they complete their majors, the issue presents articles that advance integrative and engaged learning in and across disciplines. The features draw on sessions and presentations from AAC&U’s 2009 Engaging Departments Institute. SOLD OUT - full issue is available as a PDF.

		Study Abroad and Global Learning: Exploring Connections Fall 2009 Features articles on best practices in campus study abroad programs, research on the impact of study abroad, and analysis of the role and limitations of study abroad as a strategy for global learning. Buy Now

		Liberal Education and Undergraduate Public Health Studies Summer 2009 This issue makes the case for a bridge between the undergraduate and public health communities, illustrates the potential for public health education as a vehicle for liberal learning, and provides concrete examples and approaches to the development of high quality undergraduate courses and curricula. Buy Now

		Good Teaching: What Is It and How Do We Measure It? Spring 2009 This issue addresses specific challenges faculty are facing in the classroom today. It explores issues related to developing collaborative and hands-on learning opportunities, research on the relationship between expectations and achievement, and ways to teach about controversial subjects and issues that challenge students' deeply held beliefs. Buy Now

		Assessing Learning Outcomes: Lessons from AAC&U's VALUE Project Winter 2009 This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE project and provides an overview of new assessment approaches it is helping campuses develop, including the application of rubrics assessing a broad set of important learning outcomes using examples of student work completed over time in an e-portfolio. SOLD OUT - full issue is available as a PDF.

		Toward Intentionality and Integration Fall 2008 Intentionality and integrative learning, captured in the LEAP vision of essential learning outcomes, have been themes in AAC&U work for decades. This issue features articles about institutions that are aligning institutional practices with educational goals, making clear to students what the important outcomes of college are, and developing opportunities for them to integrate and apply what they are learning. Buy Now

		Student Political Engagement Spring/Summer 2008 This issue of Peer Review examines how the academy engages students in their learning today to help them grow as engaged citizens for tomorrow. Buy Now

		Academic Advising Winter 2008 This issue addresses the role of academic advising in undergraduate education with a special focus on general education goals and the documentation of the achievement of student learning outcomes. Buy Now

		Faculty Development: Finding Balance in Changing Roles Fall 2007 Faculty development will play a critical role in efforts to achieve essential learning outcomes for all students. This issue features the key challenges and pressures facing faculty members and institutions as they work to orient new faculty and build the skills of existing faculty. SOLD OUT - full issue is available as a PDF.

		Bringing Theory to Practice Summer 2007 The Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students' education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement. This issue provides a brief project overview as well as several campus examples that offer specific forms of engaged learning and how they are contributing to students' health and well-being. Buy Now

		Assessing Student Learning Spring 2007 As campuses implement more complex assignments, community placements, internships, student research programs, and other engaged learning practices, the opportunity for students to demonstrate complex capacities will be increased. This issue addresses a variety of approaches to achieving and assessing the advanced learning outcomes derived from these practices. It includes a special focus on developing and assessing capstone courses. Buy Now

		Student Preparation, Motivation, and Achievement Winter 2007 The issue presents data on college readiness, effective strategies for increasing student engagement and motivation to work hard and succeed, and new ways to measure student achievement of key learning outcomes. Buy Now

		Learning and Technology Fall 2006 This issue examines a range of current issues concerning the role and use of technology in student learning and also addresses how these technologies can advance liberal education learning outcomes. Topics addressed include using technology to advance humanistic ideals, teaching through blended learning environment, engaging faculty in a technological age, and learning through the deployment of innovative technologies in informal spaces. Buy Now

		Successful Transitions to College Through First- Year Programs Summer 2006 This issue features first-year programs that are designed to facilitate positive transitions for students into higher education and foster more intentional learning through intensive seminars and faculty contact, mentoring programs, and cocurricular activities. Sold Out - Complete PDF available

		The Creativity Imperative Spring 2006 Why is cultivating creative abilities among today’s students so essential? This issue focuses on the creativity imperative and addresses such issues as how to shape a creative environment on campus and what role creativity plays in a range of today’s work environments Buy Now

		Undergraduate Research: A Path to Engagement, Achievement, and Integration Winter 2006 This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community through mentored experiences in the various disciplines. These programs strive to provide students with hands-on opportunities to participate in original research projects and to engage in creative activities and scholarship under the guidance of experienced faculty members. Buy Now

		Integrative Learning Summer/Fall 2005 This issue of Peer Review focuses on integrative learning. Integrative abilities are among the most important goals of a twenty-first-century liberal education. Articles in this issue explore how integrative learning fosters connections among disciplines and cocurricular experiences and transcends academic boundaries. SOLD OUT - full issue is available as a PDF.

		Liberal Education and the Entrepreneurial Spirit Spring 2005 Sponsored by the Kauffman Consortium for Liberal Education and Entrepreneurship, housed at the College of Charleston, this issue explores how entrepreneurial ideas and values, especially those tied to a sense of social responsibility, might reinvigorate and complement contemporary understandings of liberal education across multiple disciplines. Buy now

		Science and Engaged Learning Winter 2005 This issue explores efforts to improve science education for majors and nonmajors through new forms of engaged science learning. Included are an overview of trends in undergraduate science reform, a reflection on the multiple meanings of engaged learning, and a list of myths about engagement that prevent science faculty from adopting active learning pedagogies. Buy now

		Creating Shared Responsibility for General Education and Assessment Fall 2004 Challenging the widespread notion that general education is something to "get out of the way as soon as possible," this issue explores ways that campuses are now working to cultivate important outcomes across the curriculum and, given the growth in student transfer, across institutions. Buy now

		Quantitative Literacy Summer 2004 This issue focuses on quantitative literacy as a key outcome of liberal education and explores recent trends in instruction, assessment, and curricular location. Also included is a look at related college readiness issues. Buy now

		Advancing the Conversation Between Graduate and Undergraduate Education Spring 2004 Planned in coordination with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this issue examines the intersections between undergraduate and graduate education. It explores the ways in which doctoral education could and should cultivate not just preparation for teaching in liberal arts fields, but new leadership for the larger aims of liberal education. Buy now

		(R)Evolution of the New Globally Engaged Academy Winter 2004 Focuses on the evolving identities and missions of colleges and universities as they adapt to provide a practical and engaged liberal education to today's students Buy now

		Writing and the New Academy Fall 2003 Focuses on writing as a key outcome of liberal education and explores recent trends in writing instruction, assessment, and curricular relocation. Also included are case studies in programmatic reform and a look at related college readiness issues. Sold Out - Complete PDF available

		General Education in the New Academy Summer 2003 Addresses new models for general education with a focus on models of integrative learning and connections with the major and across a student's full time in college. It also explores the impact of such changes on institutional priorities like the assessment of student learning outcomes. Buy now

		Educating for Citizenship Spring 2003 Focuses on how the academic goals of liberal education are enhanced by civic engagement and explores how or whether civic engagement is transforming liberal education. Sold Out - Complete PDF available

		Purposeful Pathways? A Look at School-College Alignment Winter 2003 Provides a critical overview of school-college alignment efforts and makes the case for more active involvement on the part of higher education in defining college readiness. Buy now

		Contingent Faculty and Student Learning Fall 2002 Explores issues and trends associated with the use of part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty with a particular focus on the impact of these trends on the quality of students’ educational experiences. Buy now

		The Values Question in Higher Education Summer 2002 Explores the ways colleges and universities are addressing the values questions today's students and the wider world bring to campus. Sold Out - Complete PDF available

		Value Added Assessment of Liberal Education Winter/Spring 2002 (double issue) Presents the RAND Corporation/Council for Aid to Education’s Value Added Assessment Initiative, a long-term project to assess the quality of undergraduate liberal education in America at the institutional level. Also includes several initial responses to the initiative. Buy now

		Learning Communities: A Sustainable Innovation? Summer/Fall 2001 (double issue) Explores the challenges faced by this successful innovation and presents current best practices. Sold Out

		Academic Governance: Charting a New Course Spring 2001 Provides an overview of the history and current state of academic governance. Sold Out

		Broad Minds & Good Jobs: Integrating Liberal and Professional Studies Winter 2001 Considers the context for, and the challenges of, integrating liberal and professional studies in the undergraduate curriculum. Sold Out

		A Small World?: Students and Faculty Abroad Fall 2000 Seeks to provoke informed debate over the shape academic exchange will take in the years ahead and offers concise descriptions of current trends, key players, and useful resources. Sold Out

		Why Is It So Hard to Change the Curriculum? Summer 2000 Looks at the challenges facing those who hope to lead their campuses in revising the undergraduate curriculum. Sold Out

		Health in Campus Life and Learning Spring 2000 Argues that, in the context of a liberal education, we should help students understand the significance of health in their own lives and in the lives of those around them. Sold Out

		A Moveable Feast? Curricular Coherence and Student Transfer Winter 2000 Explores curricular coherence as a systemic challenge and argues that, in an age of student mobility, curricular coherence requires a broad commitment to debate and define our common educational goals. Sold Out