Applications are due July 15 for the 2019 Delphi Award, given annually to two individuals or groups who have worked to support adjunct, contingent, and non-tenure-track faculty in promoting student success. The awards, funded by a grant from the Teagle Foundation, are presented by the Pullias Center at the University of Southern California in partnership with AAC&U.

This eBook surveys the landscape of general education and core curricula in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A first effort of this kind, the eBook offers chapters on specific programs in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Contributors discuss indigenous features of programs and address boundary-crossing or global goals and outcomes.

AAC&U has announced a new two-year project, Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students Are Learning, to build institutional capacity and strengthen student learning at community colleges with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ascendium Education Group.

AAC&U has announced the winner of its Frederic W. Ness Book Award, The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, written by Cathy N. Davidson and published by Basic Books. The Ness Award recognizes the book that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. The Ness award will be formally presented to Davidson at AAC&U’s Annual Meeting. 

AAC&U has appointed Christen Aragoni as academic editor and editor of Liberal Education, the flagship journal of AAC&U.

Aragoni most recently served as an editor and writer for Currents, the membership magazine of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She covered the alumni relations beat and other topics on advancement in higher education, while also overseeing production. She previously was a senior editor at The American Prospect magazine, where she participated in coverage of the 2012 and 2008 presidential elections, edited pieces on a range of political and cultural issues, and wrote book reviews. She also serves on the alumni committee of Cornell Alumni Magazine.

Aragoni earned her master of fine arts in creative writing from American University, receiving the Myra Sklarew Award for an MFA thesis which demonstrates remarkable originality, for fiction. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Cornell University, graduating magna cum laude in English, with minors in writing and women’s studies.

To mark the third annual National Day of Racial Healing on January 22, AAC&U calls on colleges and universities across the country to engage in activities, events, or strategies that promote healing and foster engagement around the issues of racism, bias, inequity, and injustice in our society.