General Education

• Shared Futures: General Education for Global Learning
• General Education for a Global Century
• Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement
• Give Students a Compass
• Developing a Community College Student Roadmap: From Entrance to Engagement in Educational Achievement and Success

National Trends and Analyses

• Returning Adult Students (Peer Review, Winter 2011)
• General Education & Liberal Learning: Principles of Effective Practice
• Trends and Emerging Practices in General Education (pdf)
• General Education and the Assessment Reform Agenda
• American Pluralism and the College Curriculum
• Creating Shared Responsibility for General Education and Assessment (Peer Review, Fall 2004)
• General Education and Student Transfer; Fostering Intentionality and Coherence in State Systems
• General Education: The Changing Agenda
• Taking Responsibility for the Quality of the Baccalaureate Degree

Practical Tools and Case Studies of General Education Reform

• Revising General Education - And Avoiding the Potholes: A Guide for Curricular Change
• Toward Intentionality and Transparency: Analysis and Reflection on the Process of General

Assessing General Education

• The Art and Science of Assessing General Education Outcomes: A Practical Guide
• Advancing Liberal Education: Assessment Practices on Campus
• General Education: A Self-Study Guide for Review and Assessment

Communicating About General Education Aims and Outcomes

• Making the Case for Liberal Education: Responding to Challenges (pdf)
• Communicating Commitment to Liberal Education: A Self-Study Guide for Institutions (pdf)
• What Will I Learn in College? What You Need to Know Now to Get Ready for College Success
• Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Student Guide to Making Smart Educational Choices

Effective General Education Teaching

• General Education & Liberal Learning: Principles of Effective Practice
• Engaging Departments: Assessing Student Learning (Peer Review, Winter 2010)
• Good Teaching: What Is It and How Do We Measure It? (Peer Review, Spring 2009)
• High Impact Educational Practices
  

• 2012 Annual Meeting: SHARED FUTURES / DIFFICULT CHOICES: Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement, and Success in Washington, DC, January 25-28, 2012. Register online.
• GENERAL EDUCATION AND ASSESSMENT: New Contexts, New Cultures in New Orleans, February 23-25, 2012. Register by January 10 for best conference rates.
• STUDENT SUCCESS: Pushing Boundaries, Raising Bars in Seattle, March 22-24, 2012. Register by January 30 for best conference rates.

2012 AAC&U SUMMER INSTITUTES

• INSTITUTE ON GENERAL EDUCATION AND ASSESSMENT at The Hotel at Turf Valley, Ellicott City, Maryland, June 2-6, 2012
• INSTITUTE ON HIGH-IMPACT PRACTICES AND STUDENT SUCCESS at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, June 19-23, 2012
• INSTITUTE ON INTEGRATIVE LEARNING AND THE DEPARTMENTS at The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, July 11-15, 2012.
• PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes for STEM Faculty at the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, CO
  Institute I: July 17-22, 2012
  Institute II: July 31-August 5, 2012

• See stories on campus innovations in AAC&U News
• See LEAP Campus Toolkit Resources

• Goals, Strategies, and Analysis
• Promising Models
• Transfer Models
• Accreditation
• Assessment
• Selected bibliography and other resources
• LEAP Campus Toolkit

• DiversityWeb
• Greater Expectations