Annual Meeting

2024 AAC&U Annual Meeting

Washington, DC

Shaping and sharing solutions to the most pressing challenges facing higher education today

In a pervasive post-truth media culture, false narratives about higher education quickly gain traction and shape public perceptions. These narratives simultaneously fuel and are fed by burgeoning efforts to bring higher education under the control of partisan politics. How can we break through to defend academic freedom, demonstrate the value of a liberal education, or recover the understanding of higher education as a public good? The rapid progress of artificial intelligence and other new technologies drives profound economic and social transformation. How can these new technologies be harnessed to advance the academic enterprise, and how can we prepare our students for a world being transformed by them?

Join colleagues and thought leaders from across the global higher education landscape to shape and share solutions to these and other challenges facing colleges and universities. The 2024 Annual Meeting will feature inspiring and insightful plenaries, opportunities to network with peers across institutional types, and a full community-generated program showcasing successful models of institutional transformation and best practices for promoting equity, innovation, and excellence in liberal education.

Pre-meeting Symposium

New this year, AAC&U's Pre-meeting Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 2024 UERU National Conference. This special ticketed event will be dedicated to The Equity/Excellence Imperative in Action. This is the title of the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU)-sponsored Boyer 2030 Commission Report, with “in action” emphasizing the presentation of ongoing leading-edge innovations in undergraduate education from across the U.S. research university landscape.

NAPAHE will be at the 2024 AAC&U Annual Meeting!

Held in collaboration with AAC&U, this gathering will bring together professionals who support senior higher education leaders. NAPAHE Annual Conference attendees can also register to attend the AAC&U Annual Meeting and explore critical topics related to higher education. Separate registration is required for the NAPAHE and AAC&U Annual Meetings.

Dates to Remember

  • Notifications will be sent out the week September 18

  • Hotel Housing Block Deadline

  • Meeting Begins

  • Meeting Ends

About the Meeting

The 2024 Annual Meeting will feature inspiring and insightful plenaries, opportunities to network with peers across institutional types, and a full community-generated program showcasing successful models and best practices for promoting equity, innovation, and excellence in liberal education.

2024 Forum on Digital Innovation

The next step in the evolution of our annual Forum on Open Learning and ePortfolios, previously a component of the AAC&U Annual Meeting, the 2024 Forum on Digital Innovation will be held virtually as a standalone on Friday, February 9, 2024.

Questions?

For questions or additional information about the Annual Meeting, please email us at [email protected].