Publications
Publications Archive
Intended as a resource for educational researchers and others, this repository includes selected monographs, reports, guides, periodicals, and other AAC&U publications that are no longer in print or readily accessible elsewhere.
Selected Publications
- The Future of the Professoriate: Academic Freedom, Peer Review and Shared Governance (2009)
- The Quality Imperative: Match Ambitious Goals for College Attainment with an Ambitions Vision for Learning (2010)
- The Drama of Diversity and Democracy: Higher Education and American Commitments (2011)
- Leadership for Interdisciplinary Learning: A Practical Guide to Mobilizing, Implementing, and Sustaining Campus Efforts (2011)
- Promising Practices for Personal and Social Responsibility: Findings from a National Research Collaborative (2012)
- The Lumina Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP): Implications for Assessment (2013)
- Achieving Systemic Change: A Sourcebook for Advancing and Funding Undergraduate STEM Education (2014)
- The Future of the Professoriate: Academic Freedom, Peer Review and Shared Governance (2009)
- Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility (2006)
- Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice (2006)
- Communicating Commitment to Liberal Education: A Self-Study Guide for Institutions (2006)
- Making the Case for Liberal Education: Responding to Challenges (2006)
- Purposeful Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Key Learning Outcomes (2006)
- Shared Futures: Global Learning and Liberal Education (2006)
- Assessment in Cycles of Improvement: Faculty Designs for Essential Learning Outcomes (2007)
- College Learning for the New Global Century: A Report from the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America's Promise (2007)
- A Message of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education (2008)
- Creating the Entrepreneurial University to Support Liberal Education (2008)
- More Reasons for Hope: Diversity Matters in Higher Education (2008)
- Our Students' Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of Our Mission (2008)
- Investing in Quality: Tools for Improving Curricular Efficiency (2000)
- Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College (2002)
- The Academy in Transition: General Education and the Assessment Reform Agenda (2004)
- Taking Responsibility for the Quality of the Baccalaureate Degree (2004)
- The Art & Science of Assessing General Education Outcomes (2005)
- General Education: A Self-Study Guide for Review & Assessment (2005)
- General Education and Student Transfer: Fostering Intentional and Coherence in State Systems (2005)
- Levels of Assessment: From the Student to the Institution (2005)
- Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College (2005)
- Investing in Quality: Tools for Improving Curricular Efficiency (2000)
- Out of the Classroom: A Chilly Campus Climate for Women? (1984)
- What Works: Building Natural Science Communities: A Plan for Strengthening Undergraduate Science and Mathematics (1990s, Vol. 1)
- Hispanic Women: Making Their Presence on Campus Less Tenuous (1991)
- American Pluralism and the College Curriculum: Higher Education in a Diverse Democracy (1995)
- Globalizing Knowledge: Connecting International & Intercultural Studies (1999)
- To Form a More Perfect Union: Campus Diversity Initiatives (1999)
Periodicals
Diversity & Democracy ArchivePublished between 1996 and 2020, Diversity & Democracy (originally titled Diversity Digest) supported the design and implementation of programs to advance civic learning and democratic engagement, global learning, engagement with diversity, and the preparation of students for socially responsible action.
Liberal Education ArchiveSince the association’s founding in 1915, our flagship publication has served as the national forum about liberal education. The archive provides access to issues from 2005 to 2020, when Liberal Education was relaunched following a significant redesign.
Peer Review ArchivePublished between 1998 and 2020, Peer Review provided a quarterly briefing on emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate education. Each issue focused on a specific topic, provided comprehensive analysis, and featured campus perspectives.
Current Publications
AAC&U publications cover a range of topics and provide the latest research, analysis, and valuable starting points for campus practitioner and policy leader dialogues. Visit the publications store to browse new and current monographs, reports, and guides.