General Education

• Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility
• General Education for a Global Century
• Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement
• Developing a Community College Student Roadmap: From Entrance to Engagement in Educational Achievement and Success
• Faculty Leadership for Integrative Liberal Learning: Principles and Practices
• Scientific Thinking and Integrative Reasoning Skills (STIRS)

National Trends and Analyses

• Making Progress? What We Know about the Achievement of Liberal Education Outcomes
• 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
• 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

• Liberal Education for Sustainability
  (Liberal Education, Fall 2012)
• 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

• Essential Learning Outcomes, the New MCAT, and Curricular Change (Peer Review, Fall 2012)
• Assessing Liberal Education Outcomes Using VALUE Rubrics (Peer Review, Fall 2011/Winter 2012)
• 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

• Frontiers of Faculty Work: Embracing Innovation and High-Impact Practices (Peer Review, Summer 2012)
• 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
  

• Global Learning in College: Asking Big Questions, Engaging Urgent Challenges in Providence, Rhode Island, October 3-5, 2013.
• Transforming STEM Education: Inquiry, Innovation, Inclusion, and Evidence in San Diego, California, October 31 – November 2, 2013.
• AAC&U’s 2014 Annual Meeting: QUALITY, E-QUALITY, AND OPPORTUNITY How Educational Innovations Will Make—or Break— America’s Global Future in Washington, DC, January 22-25, 2014. Proposals Due July 15, 2013.
• GENERAL EDUCATION AND ASSESSMENT: Disruptions, Innovations, and Opportunities in Portland, Oregon, February 27–March 1, 2014. Proposals due July 17, 2013.

2013 Summer Institutes

• Institute on General Education and Assessment at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, June 1-5, 2013.
• Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, June 11-14, 2013.
• Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, July 10-14, 2013.
• PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for STEM Faculty at the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado, July 23-28 OR July 30-August 4, 2013.

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