
Initiative
Presidents’ Trust
Membership is open to CEOs of colleges and universities, as well as CEOs of foundations and associations. Demonstrate your commitment to leadership in liberal education by joining the Presidents’ Trust today.
Campus Priority
Abundant evidence—including from employers—points to liberal education’s immense economic and civic value. Campus leaders, faculty, and staff are essential advocates for communicating its defining characteristics and outcomes.
Initiative
Membership is open to CEOs of colleges and universities, as well as CEOs of foundations and associations. Demonstrate your commitment to leadership in liberal education by joining the Presidents’ Trust today.
Research
AAC&U’s most recent survey of employers explores views on the value of a college degree, the educational outcomes and experiences most valued for hiring decisions, and perceptions of recent graduates’ levels of preparedness for workplace success.
Publication
This vital book demonstrates how tumultuous events reveal what we value and the ways in which a liberal education can help us to learn from one another while cultivating the personal and social responsibility necessary for furthering the common good.
Research
Findings from a national survey of higher education professionals across campus roles and institutional types
On-Demand Webinar
What happens when two students — strangers from different universities — join a guided online conversation about America’s toughest political issues?
Annual Meeting\
Annual Meeting\
This year's forum will focus on proven, innovative liberal education strategies that support and facilitate the goals of quality, equity, affordability, and access in higher education and fully prepare students for life beyond graduation.
Research
Findings from a national survey of higher education professionals across campus roles and institutional types
Publication
This vital book demonstrates how tumultuous events reveal what we value and the ways in which a liberal education can help us to learn from one another while cultivating the personal and social responsibility necessary for furthering the common good.
On-Demand Webinar
As political polarization and intolerance for difference continue to grow and thrive in the United States, colleges and universities have an essential role in supporting a healthy democracy.
Conference\
The conference will combine critical reflection on past practice with exploration of new approaches to global learning that are accessible and inclusive, rooted in ethical relationships, and situate the global within local and international settings.
Publication
This publication tells the LEAP story and situates it within the broader context of AAC&U’s work to integrally connect liberal learning with the wider world, and combine liberal education with inclusive excellence and equity.