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AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. AAC&U is an excellent source of information on undergraduate curricular change, how colleges are changing to meet the needs of the new global economy, general education reform, student learning outcomes assessment, diversity and equity in higher education, and global issues in higher education.

Recent Press Releases

2,000 Higher Education Leaders and Educators to Convene in San Francisco to Explore How to Build Public Trust in the Promise of Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence

January 4, 2017

San Francisco, CA—The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) will hold its Annual Meeting in San Francisco from January 25–28, 2017. AAC&U’s 2017 Annual Meeting, “Building Public Trust in the Promise of Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence,” will respond to the urgent need—expressed by educators from campuses across the country—for more effective approaches to restoring public trust in higher education and improving public understanding of how liberal education and inclusive excellence are valuable “public” and “private” goods. Rebuilding the public’s trust in higher and liberal education requires educators and leaders from across sectors to paint a more compelling and vivid picture of how colleges and universities are improving student learning and reinventing liberal education to serve today’s students and to solve today’s challenges.Read more

Association of American Colleges and Universities Launches Online Resource Hub to Support Community Colleges In Advancing Student Success Strategies

October 31, 2016

Washington, DC—The Association of American College and Universities (AAC&U) announced today the launch of the LEAP Connections Resource Hub—a new online resource hub and virtual community of practice for community college educators.  The site was developed with support from The Kresge Foundation as part of AAC&U’s Advancing Roadmaps for Community College Leadership to Improve Student Learning and Success initiative. Read more

AAC&U Leads STEM Faculty and Administrators in Curriculum Reform on the White House’s Active Learning Day

October 25, 2016

Led by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and its Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), over four hundred STEM faculty and administrators— representing more than 160 institutions or higher education and STEM professional societies—pledged to participate in Active Learning Day, organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as part of its nationwide Call to Action to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These educators pledged to support the kinds of active teaching and learning strategies in STEM classrooms that are culturally responsive to today’s undergraduate population.Read more

Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Washington Internship Institute Announces Fall 2016 Faculty Fellows

October 5, 2016

Today, the Washington Internship Institute, in partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), announced the three faculty members participating in the Faculty Fellows program for the Fall 2016 semester.

The Faculty Fellows program provides a unique faculty development experience by offering faculty from all disciplines the opportunities to pursue their professional, disciplinary, and personal interests in challenging and dynamic professional environments, and to reinvigorate their work as scholars, teachers, advisers, and educational leaders.Read more

New Higher Ed Collaboration to Advance STEM Leadership

September 21, 2016

St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands—Four diverse and prominent institutions of higher education have joined forces to conduct research on proven leadership approaches to broadening participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). With the generous support of a $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of the Virgin Islands and its partners - Fielding Graduate University, North Carolina A&T State University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities - have collaborated to launch the Center for Advancing STEM Leadership....Read more

Bringing Theory to Practice Releases New Book on Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education's Greater Purposes

August 15, 2016

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) is pleased to announce the release of a new publication funded with the support of the Endeavor Foundation: Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education’s Greater Purposes.Read more

At Meeting in Washington, DC, AAC&U Launches New Project, Purposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular Coherence

July 26, 2016

Teagle Foundation Grant Supports Project Designed to Improve Student Success Through Greater Intentionality in Guided Learning PathwaysRead more

Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Announce Georgia As 13th Partner State in AAC&U’s LEAP States Initiative

July 20, 2016

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) announced today that Georgia is now a state partner in AAC&U’s national initiative, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP).Read more

AAC&U Joins Coalition on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

July 8, 2016

Washington, DC—The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced today that it is joining with more than 70 diverse organizations and individuals as partners in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) initiative launched in January 2016. The enterprise was launched to help communities embrace racial healing and uproot conscious and unconscious beliefs in the hierarchy of human value. The supporting organizations and...Read more

AAC&U President Issues Call to Action on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Wake of Court Decision on Race-Based Admissions

June 23, 2016

Washington DC—In a strongly worded statement released today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider underscored AAC&U’s continuing commitment to “support[ing] higher education institutions across all sectors in creating learning experiences through which all students engage productively with the diversity of ideas and experiences that characterize our world.”

Given its mission-level commitment to both liberal...Read more

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