Institutes

ePortfolios—digital repositories of student work—allow faculty and other educational professionals to help students organize, preserve the forms of, and reflect upon their learning. In this yearlong institute, participants discover how to best ideate, design, and implement ePortfolios according to their unique needs. Teams of administrators, educators, and student leaders develop and then actualize an ePortfolio strategy under the guidance of institute faculty, identifying and addressing challenges as they arise. This institute is ideal for any campus, state system, or consortium aiming to redesign learning for students using ePortfolios.

The changing demographic landscape of higher education demands that colleges and universities adapt more daring approaches to institutional change that are equally evidence-based and culturally responsive. This transformative event sensitizes STEM reformers to the ways in which institutional systems and structures disproportionately disadvantage STEM faculty and students of color, and other marginalized groups. It emphasizes accountability through critical questioning, critique, deep reflection, and introspection of self, department, and institution.

The growing division across racial and ethnic identities in America cannot be ignored. How can colleges and universities heal from the legacies and harm of racism and bias? AAC&U is partnering with higher education institutions to develop TRHT Campus Centers to prepare the next generation of strategic leaders and thinkers to promote racial healing and address current inequities grounded in notions of a racial hierarchy. As a part of this national initiative, each TRHT Campus Center prioritizes expansive, community-based healing activities that seek to change collective community narratives and broaden the understanding of our diverse experiences.

AAC&U’s Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work provides campus teams with time, resources, and support to develop strategies and advance institutional-level efforts that help their students integrate knowledge and skills across disciplines and apply them in real-world settings. Teams have support from national experts, who serve as mentors; access to sessions emphasizing the value of leveraging interdisciplinary, integrative, and experiential learning approaches—as well as co-curricular experiences—to expand integrative learning and community engagement; and team time to work on an institution-specific action plan for embedding integrative learning and/or signature work across the educational experience.