Educating for Democracy

How to bring history to the masses—and why it matters

We must push back against the attacks on higher ed and democracy

Political differences, a common humanity

At its best, liberal learning produces courage

A student group’s new bylaw provokes a First Amendment dispute

A liberal education can prepare students to succeed as future leaders

As well as offering an important message to state and federal policy makers, this book serves as a roadmap for aspiring leaders of community colleges as well as a text for leadership and higher education courses.

Data from the 2020 elections to help campuses get students to the polls in November

Embodying Anti-Racist Learning

What we can learn from the past to defend academic freedom today

Three lessons for how community colleges can strengthen students, families, communities, and society

AAC&U’s new name and refreshed branding reflect its global outreach and commitment to inclusion

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.

This book argues that higher education can and must again take leadership in promoting the participatory processes and instilling the democratic values needed to build a vibrant and fair society.

Why we must embrace and reinvigorate higher education's civic mission

There must be more to our missions than job and skills training: working together to support and sustain democracy.

State laws target the teaching of race and American history

Common reading programs as flash points in campus culture wars

A conversation with Cynthia Miller-Idriss on inoculating students—and everyone—against hate and disinformation

Belonging and othering in the classroom

To educate for democracy, we must take our messages beyond the academy

This report, drawn from AAC&U’s most recent survey of campus stakeholders, addresses the top institutional challenges and leading strategic priorities for campuses as they weather the global pandemic and address issues of systemic racism

How universities can communicate our policies and values

In what ways are high-impact practices and values of engaged citizenry consistent or inconsistent with preparing work-ready graduates? Are they potentially one in the same?

Evidence-based research can help us reframe the narrative about the value of higher ed

Staying committed to ending racism and racial inequity

How faculty and administrators bring a focus on racial justice to their work

Empowering students to become active citizens

A global commerce major that strengthens the liberal arts at Denison University

Confronting our problems through the learning zone

Helping colleges and universities to reimagine their business models

Preparing faculty and student leaders to confront biases on campus

Standing up to partisan rhetoric that undermines education

Addressing lead poisoning and environmental racism through research, education, and advocacy

Protecting students against false and misleading information during a pandemic

A conversation with two policy experts

College students are increasingly reluctant to speak their minds about controversial subjects

Several colleges and universities have canceled diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

A conversation with Nancy Thomas about coming together when a pandemic and polarization are driving us apart

Should professors reveal their views on controversial topics?

Upholding two core values essential to the pursuit of the common good

Eight voices on what the pandemic and protests are teaching higher ed

Fostering independent thought and dialogue across differences is how we counter authoritarianism

Newspapers face challenges to a free press on increasingly diverse and polarized campuses

Interdisciplinary engagement in the COVID-19 election

The Cross Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education

Students might be more prepared than ever to head to the polls

As COVID-19 spread and other colleges and universities followed suit, the presidents of community colleges—institutions that have fewer resources and serve more at-risk students—were forced to think cautiously about the decision to close.

Coming together through online learning, holistic support, and fighting a pandemic

This publication presents a guiding vision of educational excellence that is grounded in equity and inclusion. In distilling the principles, practices, and contemporary challenges of liberal education, this signature AAC&U publication clearly...

Winners of the 2020 Delphi Award share their strategies

This publication explores the implications for higher education of emerging digital capacities and culture. Arguing that any discussion that begins with technology is doomed to a diminished vision of learning, the authors make a case for...

How can faculty prepare students to integrate their learning and apply it to complex challenges in life, career, and citizenship? This publication presents principles and practices for integrative learning that reflect a holistic concept of...

Designed to help build faculty capacity to incorporate civic learning in major courses and programs, this publication provides a process, or set of prompts, faculty can use to define and explore the public purposes and civic inquiries embedded...

Commissioned by the US Department of Education, this major report responds to a national discourse that effectively limits the mission of higher education to workforce preparation and training, while marginalizing disciplines basic to...

Informed by the work of the Bonner Foundation, this publication presents a developmental cocurricular model for civic learning and socially responsible leadership that has been implemented on seventy-seven college campuses. It describes key...