Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change

Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to Systemic Institutional Change

This publication is for academic leaders who are poised to mount comprehensive STEM reforms to improve student learning and success, particularly for students from underrepresented groups. The guide contains advice on getting started, team and leader development, project management, and sustaining change

Annual Meeting 2017

Annual Meeting: Registration Now Open

January 25 Pre-Meeting Symposium on “Student Activism and Liberal Education: Faculty Engagement in Turbulent Times”
January 28 “Forum on Digital Learning and ePortfolios”

Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem

Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem

The authors of this new publication explore the implications of emerging digital capacities and culture for higher education. They begin by reimagining the core purposes of liberal education in this new context and ask—What is the role of the digital ecosystem in making a quality liberal education available to all, equitably?

Global Learning and the College Curriculum: Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World

Network for Academic Renewal Working Conference

October 6-8, 2016 | Denver, Colorado | Register Today!
Global Learning and the College Curriculum: Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World will examine and discuss how institutions are integrating and assessing global learning across the curriculum.

Network for Academic Renewal Working Conference

Network for Academic Renewal Working Conference

November 3–5, 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts | Register Today!
AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope invite you to join with colleagues to share and examine evidence-based models, practices, and strategies to provide high-quality undergraduate STEM teaching and learning and increase the number of students majoring, completing baccalaureate degrees, and pursuing careers in STEM fields.

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What's New

New Higher Ed Collaboration to Advance STEM Leadership

AAC&U has joined with the University of the Virgin Islands, Fielding Graduate University, and North Carolina A&T State University to launch the Center for Advancing STEM Leadership, with the generous support of a grant from the National Science Foundation. The center will study the... more

Third LEAP States Summit Held, Resources Online

Teams of educators and leaders from twenty states, state systems, and consortia gathered for the third LEAP States Summit, held Sept. 13–15, 2016, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The summit invited participants to connect quality of student learning with equity in student learning outcomes and to... more

New Publication on the Digital Learning Ecosystem

Despite the transformative potential of the ongoing digital revolution, the digital ecosystem has so far had less of an impact on formal education than on other sectors of our society. In Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem, authors Randy... more