The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education has announced that Harper College and California State University–Dominguez Hills have won the Delphi Award, given in partnership with AAC&U and with funding from the Teagle Foundation to recognize innovative approaches to supporting adjunct faculty in promoting student success.

US senators have introduced the Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act, which "would encourage colleges and universities to remove criminal and juvenile justice questions from their admissions applications and give more Americans a chance to earn a higher education." In May, AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella released a statement, “Expanding the American Dream: Destigmatizing Past Criminal Justice Involvement,” urging AAC&U's member institutions to review their practices related to criminal justice involvement.

AAC&U's newest employer research, “Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work,” shows that employers overwhelmingly endorse broad learning and cross-cutting skills as the best preparation for long-term career success.

Published by the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University, this report offers ten recommendations to help campuses improve students’ political learning, discourse, inclusion, agency, and participation, beyond—but also including—voting.

AAC&U has appointed Ashley Finley as the senior advisor to the president and secretary to the board. Ashley has been an active AAC&U member and leader during her tenure at Dominican University of California, where she currently serves as associate vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Dominican Experience. She is also the national evaluator for Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP).

AAC&U has released a statement calling on colleges and universities to fulfill the promise of American higher education by promoting diversity and equity. "Identifying and overcoming the institutional structures and hidden barriers that undermine diversity is an imperative, not only for delivering a twenty-first-century liberal education that prepares students to thrive, . . . but for carrying out our nation’s historic mission of educating for democracy," the statement says.

“The liberal arts and sciences are not only critically important for individual career success and the overall national economy. They are also essential to our country,” wrote Frederick M. Lawrence, secretary and CEO of Phi Beta Kappa Society, in a recent op-ed for Fox News, "What Critics of a Liberal Arts and Sciences Education are Missing."