The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and LEAP
Member Organization: Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC)
Year Joined: 2012
LEAP State Mission: The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) entered into partnership with AAC&U’s LEAP initiative to deepen its collaborative efforts to improve and expand high impact undergraduate research and the quality of undergraduate learning across its 26 member institutions. Through its LEAP initiative, COPLAC intends to create an intentional, integrated approach to undergraduate research and articulate shared goals with students, internal, and external audiences. The COPLAC effort will focus on
- Collecting and sharing institutional practices, resources, and expertise through face-to-face meetings and through a web-based portal on the COPLAC web site;
- Exploring the potential to share faculty expertise in mentoring undergraduate research students across the consortium using distance technology; and
- Sharing best practices in the assessment of undergraduate research, both in terms of student learning and the application of new knowledge.
Contact: Cole Woodcox, Director, COPLAC, woodcox@coplac.org
COPLAC Institutions
- Eastern Connecticut State University
- Fort Lewis College
- Georgia College and State University
- Henderson State University
- Keene State University
- Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
- Midwestern State University
- New College of Florida
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Shepherd University
- Sonoma State University
- Southern Oregon University
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland
- SUNY College at Geneseo
- The Evergreen State College
- Truman State University
- University of Alberta, Augustana
- University of Illinois Springfield
- University of Maine at Farmington
- University of Mary Washington
- University of Minnesota Morris
- University of Montevallo
- University of North Carolina Asheville
- University of Science and Arts Oklahoma
- University of South Carolina Aiken
- University of Virginia’s College at Wise
- University of Wisconsin – Superior