The Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities issued the following statement on September 1, 2005.

By David Tritelli

By Richard H. Hersh and Carol Geary Schneider
Higher education must do more to emphasize the development of personal and social responsibility as core outcomes of a liberal education, and robust assessments of these outcomes must be developed. The time is right for a visible national effort to advance these goals. 

By Bill Puka
Many of the programs designed to help students develop their moral insight and reasoning skills are too narrowly focused. This look at the various program foci as components of a more inclusive program encourages consideration of how some main themes can be enhanced.

By Bill Puka
Issues of academic integrity must be considered within the larger context of campus culture, which is influenced by the ethical practices of faculty and administrators as well as students.

By Debra Humphreys and Abigail Davenport
The findings from a series of focus groups, held with high school and college students in four locations in different regions of the country, reveal student attitudes toward liberal education.

By Lucia Albino Gilbert, Paige E. Schilt, and Sheldon Ekland-Olson
The University of Texas at Austin has launched two initiatives to integrate
interdisciplinary study and participation in research into the core mission of undergraduate education. Both are rooted in the university’s identity as a large and diverse research institution and designed to provide the majority of students with the kinds of unique educational opportunities typically reserved for honors students.

By Thomas B. Coburn
The encounter of spirituality and secularism in liberal education holds high promise for helping the contemporary academy out of its centuries-long overemphasis on the secular.