This free toolkit helps educators design meaningful community-engaged learning experiences built on reciprocal partnerships, shared learning, and strong campus–community relationships.
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This free guide helps students develop the human skills and judgment needed to navigate the age of artificial intelligence.
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This volume offers replicable strategies for centering equity in campus–community partnerships, highlighting how equitable practices are defined and enacted across diverse contexts. Through case studies and reflective analyses, contributors emphasize relationship-building as the foundation of meaningful engagement while addressing successes, challenges, and lessons learned. A valuable resource for scholars, educators, and community partners committed to equity-driven collaboration.
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This updated second edition provides a practical roadmap for integrating AI into teaching, covering new tools such as reasoning models, simulations, and customized bots while addressing ethics, academic integrity, and emerging challenges. Blending research with hands-on strategies, it helps educators design interactive assignments, enhance assessment, and use AI to deepen learning. Published in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Press.
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A collaborative resource from Elon University and AAC&U, this guide equips students to navigate AI academically, professionally, and ethically. It offers responsible-use guidance, practical strategies for leveraging AI in coursework and career preparation, and tools for crafting effective AI prompts—empowering learners to thrive in an AI-driven world.
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This free student guide offers ethical ground rules, practical uses and cautions, and advice for academic and career planning in an AI-infused world. Developed by Elon University and AAC&U with global collaborators, it is the first in a series of freely adaptable resources designed to evolve as artificial intelligence advances.
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This volume highlights the work of AAC&U and TRHT Campus Centers in advancing racial healing and dismantling the belief in a hierarchy of human value. Through case studies and practical strategies, it demonstrates how higher education institutions and community partners can promote narrative change, build equitable relationships, and foster thriving, inclusive communities.
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This volume examines how integrating mentoring, undergraduate research, and global learning creates powerful high-impact experiences for students and institutions alike. Through models from diverse settings, it shows how MUR-GC broadens access to global learning, fosters interdisciplinary and ethical engagement, and strengthens outcomes for students, faculty, and host communities.
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This second edition provides a timely, insightful overview of current trends in general education reform, offering practical strategies for designing curricula that cultivate intellectual flexibility and meaningful learning across disciplines. Blending theory with actionable implementation ideas, the book guides faculty through the shift from distributive to integrative, high-impact models while highlighting real examples of how reform shapes syllabi, course content, and student work. Essential reading for educators committed to preparing students to think critically and engage productively in a rapidly changing world.
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Featuring case studies from more than fifteen institutions worldwide, this volume showcases innovative assessment strategies in areas such as career readiness, distance education, DEI, and general education—reflecting shifts in higher education in the post-COVID era. Aligned with AAC&U’s VALUE initiative, it provides practical examples to help educators strengthen and diversify their assessment practices.
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This publication provides OER advocates with research, evidence, and practical guidance for crafting persuasive presentations, publications, and arguments that demonstrate the benefits of open educational resources for students and their learning.
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This publication provides evidence-based guidance and best practices for connecting open educational resources (OER) with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to advance institutional equity goals and support sustainable, broad adoption of OER.
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This volume examines the rapidly evolving landscape of twenty-first-century higher education, exploring accreditation pressures, economic challenges, shifting workforce demands, and the pursuit of equity and access. Contributions from nearly fifty scholars and leaders address global leadership challenges, institutional competitiveness, diversity initiatives, the role of HBCUs, STEM reform, and strategies for creating transformative student experiences.
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This practical guide offers hands-on strategies and lesson-based activities to help educators cultivate civic professionalism across all majors, preparing students to engage in collaborative public problem solving. Organized into twelve adaptable lessons with accompanying assessment tools, it supports critical dialogue and democratic engagement among diverse student groups. Co-published by AAC&U and Campus Compact.
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This updated edition reframes the notion of “college readiness” by focusing not on students’ limitations but on how institutions can transform their policies, practices, and culture to better support today’s learners. Drawing on current social realities and emerging strategies, it offers practical guidance for fostering equity, strengthening institutional capacity, and designing partnerships and supports that help all students thrive.
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Drawing on firsthand leadership experience and research, this book explores the vital role community colleges play in advancing democracy, economic development, and social mobility while confronting chronic underfunding and complex institutional missions. Through analysis, leadership insights, and case studies from diverse campuses, the authors make a compelling case for greater investment in community colleges and offer guidance for policymakers, educators, and emerging leaders dedicated to strengthening these essential institutions.
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This publication examines lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic—from scientific discovery to systemic inequities—and argues for the renewed relevance of the liberal arts and sciences in preparing students for work, civic life, and personal meaning. Adams offers a forward-looking vision for how higher education can respond to post-pandemic challenges while strengthening democratic and humanistic foundations.
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Grounded in the author’s personal commitment to dismantling the belief in a racial hierarchy, this guide introduces the principles, tools, and practices of the Rx Racial Healing approach. It provides a framework for facilitating transformational change and fostering shared humanity across colleges, organizations, and communities.
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Highlighting the Interfaith Leadership in Higher Education Initiative—a partnership between AAC&U and Interfaith Youth Core—this volume showcases institutional models that advance interfaith teaching, learning, and campus engagement. It demonstrates how higher education can prepare students to navigate religious diversity and contribute to a more inclusive democracy.
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Drawing on crises from the COVID-19 pandemic to racial injustice and political polarization, this book argues that liberal education is essential to preparing individuals for ethical decision-making, civic responsibility, and public health leadership. Through examples from medical and higher education contexts, Pasquerella examines moral distress, equity, and free speech while making a compelling case for the role of liberal education in advancing the common good.
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