The SAGE Group (Strategies for Achieving Greater Expectations) is a consulting service formed by AAC&U to assist campuses wishing to implement changes recommended in the report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. The Group consists of experienced senior administrators and educators who collectively offer a wide range of expertise. Members provide individual and group consultation to institutions working on comprehensive educational reform.

As a blueprint for self-improvement that can be adapted to a variety of institutional missions and types, the Greater Expectations report serves to guide The SAGE Group's work. The report challenges colleges and universities to ensure powerful learning for all students in order to prepare them to participate fully in a twenty-first century, knowledge-based society.

The SAGE Group works with institutions to reallocate resources and realign practices toward more intentional undergraduate education. Institutional work with consultants can involve, for example, mission review, strategic planning, collective articulation of learning outcomes, curricular and general education reform, shared governance, assessment, diversity enhancement, faculty development, or internationalization.

The SAGE Group is affiliated with Greater Expectations, AAC&U's multi-year initiative to articulate the aims of a twenty-first century liberal education and identify comprehensive, innovative models that improve learning for all undergraduate students.

The SAGE Group is an initiative within AAC&U's Office of Education and Quality Initiatives. For more information, please call Gretchen Sauvey at 202-884-7413 or sauvey@aacu.org.