Learning & Technology
This issue examines a range of current issues concerning the role and use of technology in student learning and will also addresses how these technologies can advance liberal education learning outcomes. Topics addressed include using technology to advance humanistic ideals, teaching through blended learning environment, engaging faculty in a technological age, and learning through the deployment of innovative technologies in informal spaces.
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Analysis
Practice
Reality Check
Previous Issues
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Summer 2018While the pace of change in higher education can be slow, general education has emerged as a space... Read more -
Spring 2018This issue presents findings from the eight-campus LEAP Challenge: Engaging in Capstones and... Read more -
Winter 2018Global learning, which was once synonymous with “study abroad,” is now defined by the Global... Read more -
Fall 2017Educating students to be responsible, informed, and engaged citizens in their workplaces and the... Read more -
Summer 2017This issue features the AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives project, which has created a large-scale,... Read more -
Spring 2017Since 1970, bachelor degree attainment among students from wealthy families nearly doubled, but it... Read more -
Winter 2017This issue builds on and explores implications of findings from the National Census of Writing. It... Read more -
Fall 2016The Scientific Thinking and Integrative Reasoning Skills (STIRS) framework has been developed, used... Read more -
Summer 2016Adoption of eportfolio pedagogies and practices in conjunction with Signature Work provide the... Read more -
Winter/Spring 2016This issue, funded by TG Philanthropy, explores the relationship between high-impact practices and... Read more -
Fall 2015Sponsored by The Kresge Foundation, this issue focuses on campus, state, regional, and national... Read more -
Summer 2015In a world where college graduates spend the majority of their public lives engaged in work, this... Read more -
Spring 2015This issue, sponsored by the W. M. Keck Foundation as part of the PKAL Guide to Systemic... Read more -
Fall/Winter 2015This issue, sponsored by the Teagle and Mellon foundations, offers insights about the central role... Read more -
Summer 2014Quantitative reasoning skills―the habit of mind, competency, and comfort in working with numerical... Read more -
Spring 2014Close examination of the status of women science and engineering faculty at four-year colleges and... Read more -
Winter 2014E-portfolios are now being used in more than half of US colleges and universities. This issue... Read more -
Fall 2013Whether they’re called senior capstones or some other name, these culminating experiences require... Read more -
Summer 2013This issue explores the evolution of faculty roles, including the growing dependence on non-tenure-... Read more -
Spring 2013This issue highlights lessons learned from Developing a Community College Student Roadmap, the LEAP... Read more -
Winter 2013This issue explores how campus leaders—presidents, boards, administrators and faculty—can best work... Read more -
Fall 2012This issue focuses on the new changes to the MCAT, which focus more on broad integrative learning... Read more -
Summer 2012This issue centers on how faculty are using high-impact educational practices in individual... Read more -
Spring 2012This issue explores how various professional programs, such as education, engineering, and nursing... Read more -
Fall/Winter 2011This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE rubrics, which were tested on more than one hundred pilot... Read more -
Summer 2011This issue of Peer Review emerges from the new partnership between Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) and... Read more -
Spring 2011This issue of Peer Review highlights lessons learned from AAC&U’s LEAP States initiative.... Read more -
Winter 2011Adult students comprise a growing population on college campuses. This issue features a range of... Read more -
Fall 2010Articles in this issue present best practices for creating internships and other experiential... Read more -
Summer 2010This issue explores new strategies for diversifying the faculty and developing their effectiveness... Read more -
Spring 2010This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community... Read more -
Winter 2010This issue explores how departments are developing assessment approaches that deepen student... Read more -
Fall 2009Peer Review, Fall, 2009: Features articles on best practices in campus study abroad programs,... Read more -
Summer 2009This issue makes the case for a bridge between the undergraduate and public health communities,... Read more -
Spring 2009This issue addresses specific challenges faculty are facing in the classroom today. It explores... Read more -
Winter 2009This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE project and provides an overview of new assessment... Read more -
Fall 2008Intentionality and integrative learning, captured in the LEAP vision of essential learning outcomes... Read more -
Spring/Summer 2008This issue examines how the academy engages students in their learning today to help them grow as... Read more -
Winter 2008This issue addresses the role of academic advising in undergraduate education with a special focus... Read more -
Fall 2007Faculty development will play a critical role in efforts to achieve essential learning outcomes for... Read more -
Summer 2007The Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project seeks to advance engaged student learning and... Read more -
Spring 2007As campuses implement more complex assignments, community placements, internships, student research... Read more -
Winter 2007The issue presents data on college readiness, effective strategies for increasing student... Read more -
Fall 2006This issue examines a range of current issues concerning the role and use of technology in student... Read more -
Summer 2006This issue features first-year programs that are designed to facilitate positive transitions for... Read more -
Spring 2006Why is cultivating creative abilities among today’s students so essential? This issue focuses on... Read more -
Winter 2006This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community... Read more -
Summer/Fall 2005The Summer/Fall 2005 issue of Peer Review focuses on integrative learning. Integrative abilities... Read more -
Spring 2005Sponsored by the Kauffman Consortium for Liberal Education and Entrepreneurship, housed at the... Read more -
Winter 2005This issue explores efforts to improve science education for majors and nonmajors through new forms... Read more -
Fall 2004Challenging the widespread notion that general education is something to "get out of the way as... Read more -
Summer 2004This issue focuses on quantitative literacy as a key outcome of liberal education and explores... Read more -
Spring 2004Planned in coordination with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this issue... Read more -
Winter 2004This issue focuses on the evolving identities and missions of colleges and universities as they... Read more -
Fall 2003This issue focuses on writing as a key outcome of liberal education and explores recent trends in... Read more -
Summer 2003This issue addresses new models for general education with a focus on models of integrative... Read more -
Spring 2003This issue focuses on how the academic goals of liberal education are enhanced by civic engagement... Read more -
Winter 2003This issue provides a critical overview of school-college alignment efforts and makes the case for... Read more -
Fall 2002This issue explores issues and trends associated with the use of part-time and full-time non-tenure... Read more -
Summer 2002This issue explores the ways colleges and universities are addressing the values questions today's... Read more -
Winter/Spring 2002This issue presents the RAND Corporation/Council for Aid to Education's Value Added Assessment... Read more -
Summer/Fall 2001This issue explores the challenges faced by this successful innovation and presents current best... Read more -
Spring 2001This issue provides an overview of the history and current state of academic governance. -
Winter 2001This issue considers the context for, and the challenges of, integrating liberal and professional... Read more -
Fall 2000This issue seeks to provoke informed debate over the shape academic exchange will take in the years... Read more -
Summer 2000This issue looks at the challenges facing those who hope to lead their campuses in revising the... Read more -
Spring 2000This issue argues that, in the context of a liberal education, we should help students understand... Read more -
Winter 2000This issue explores curricular coherence as a systemic challenge and argues that, in an age of... Read more