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Meetings and Institutes
2013 Annual Meeting to Focus on Innovations, Disruptions, and the Quality of Degrees
AAC&U’s 2013 Annual Meeting—“The Quality of US Degrees: Innovations, Efficiencies, and Disruptions—To What Ends?”—will be held January 23–26, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting is designed to engage leaders from across higher education with pressing questions about how the academy is adapting to globalization, demographic change, rapid technological advancement, and renegotiated political and economic relationships—while keeping our focus on fundamental issues of the quality of student learning. A Pre-Conference Symposium—“E-Portfolios: Foundational Knowledge, Student Voices, and Best Practices”—will be held on Wednesday, January 23. Registration begins September 15.
Fall 2012 Network for Academic Renewal Conferences to Focus on Equity and Diversity; STEM Learning
Modeling Equity, Engaging Difference: New Frameworks for Diversity and Learning
October 18–20, 2012—Baltimore, Maryland
Register by September 17 for best conference rates.
Next Generation STEM Learning: Investigate, Innovate, Inspire
November 8–10, 2012—Kansas City, Missouri
Register by September 26 for best conference rates.
Save the Date—Spring Network Conferences on General Education and Assessment; Student Success
General Education and Assessment: A Sea Change in Student Learning
February 28–March 2, 2013—Boston, Massachusetts
Student Success and The Quality Agenda
April 4–6, 2013—Miami, Florida
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LEAP News |
LEAP Vision for Quality Featured at Summer SHEEO Meetings
As public dialogue continues concerning the national imperative to increase college completion while also addressing the issue of learning and quality, AAC&U’s LEAP Vision for Learning is providing a framework for discussion among both educators and policy makers. The LEAP framework and the most recent LEAP initiative, Quality Collaboratives, are both being featured at meetings sponsored by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) organization this summer. The Quality Collaboratives was featured on a plenary session at the SHEEO annual meeting in Seattle in July and AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider will speak on a plenary panel, “More Degrees, Higher Quality Learning: How Do We Get Both?”, at the SHEEO policy conference in Chicago this month. The panel in Chicago will be moderated by Dewayne Matthews, Lumina Foundation vice president for policy and strategy, and will also feature Stan Jones, president of Complete College America.
CLDE Network News
AAC&U and The Democracy Commitment Host Bridging Cultures Summer Institute
AAC&U, in partnership with The Democracy Commitment, is holding a summer institute for the Bridging Cultures to Form a Nation project. The institute, which began July 29 and runs through August 3, is being held at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. More than sixty humanities faculty members and academic leaders representing ten community colleges across the country have convened to develop and revitalize humanities curricula, high-impact practices, and faculty development opportunities that intensively engage questions about difference, community, and democratic thinking. This project is funded through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
AAC&U and Partners Form First CLDE Action Collaborative in Chicago
AAC&U, Campus Compact, and the Interfaith Youth Corps are working with five Chicago area institutions—DePaul University, Elmhurst College, Loyola University-Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois-Chicago—to form the first Citywide CLDE Action Collaborative. Funded by the McCormick Foundation, the group is currently working to convene additional colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area to learn from one another about how to make democratic engagement and civic learning central to all students’ college experience. The group’s first meeting will be held this fall.
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PKAL News |
AAC&U Announces Appointment of Kelly Mack as Incoming Executive Director of Project Kaleidoscope
AAC&U has announced the appointment of Dr. Kelly Mack as executive director of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL). Mack already is working with AAC&U as a senior scholar and will begin her tenure as executive director on September 17, 2012. As PKAL executive director, Mack will continue the path set by current executive director Susan Elrod to fully integrate the work of PKAL and its many networks of science faculty and academic leaders into the heart of AAC&U’s strategic priorities and continuing programs; to develop new initiatives to advance PKAL’s strategic goals to “significantly enhance the capacity of America’s two- and four-year colleges and universities to graduate more highly qualified and liberally educated STEM professionals, including K-16 educators; and to promote a higher level of scientific literacy and reasoning among all college graduates, with particular attention to broadening participation of underrepresented groups in STEM.” Read the press release, and learn more about PKAL.
PKAL Workshop at “Next Generation STEM Learning” Conference
Save the date for “Leadership for Change in STEM Education,” a PKAL Workshop, immediately following the AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference, November 10, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Project Highlights
BTtoP to Announce Grant Awards, Next Funding Application Deadline
The Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) Project received a record 201 proposals at the June 15 deadline, the first of four deadlines in the 2012-2014 funding period. Institutions from across the nation submitted Category I: Seminar, Category II: Program Development, and Category III: Demonstration Site grant proposals addressing engaged learning, civic engagement and development, and the psychosocial well-being of college students. BTtoP will announce institutions receiving awards on its website. For more information regarding applying for grants under upcoming quarterly deadlines, visit BTtoP’s Funding Opportunities page.
Other AAC&U News
Submit Nominations by October 1 for K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education, who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others, and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. All doctoral-level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Graduate students in fields where the master's degree is the terminal degree, such as the MFA in art, are also eligible. Nominees must hold student status in January 2013. Award recipients will attend and present at AAC&U’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 2013. Complete information, including FAQs, is available here. A list of previous recipients is also available.
Excelencia in Education Hosts Fall Events on Latino Student Success in Higher Education
Excelencia in Education, an organization focused on educational issues affecting Latinos, will host two events in Washington, DC, this fall: the Celebración de Excelencia on October 2 and the Accelerating Latino Student Success (ALASS) Workshop on October 3. The Celebración will recognize evidence-based practices improving Latino student success, and the ALASS Workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to engage with colleagues from across the country who are committed to accelerating Latino student success in higher education. As part of its commitment to make excellence inclusive, AAC&U is an official sponsor of the Excelencia initiative Ensuring America’s Future by Increasing Latino College Completion. Learn more about both events, including registration information, here. |
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Making Progress? What We Know about the Achievement of Liberal Education Outcomes
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Modeling Equity, Engaging Difference: New Frameworks for Diversity and Learning
October 18–20, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland
Next Generation STEM Learning: Investigate, Innovate, Inspire
November 8–10, 2012
Kansas City, Missouri
2012 AAC&U Summer Institutes
PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes for STEM Faculty
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Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, CO
Institute I: July 17–22, 2012
Institute II: July 31–August 5, 2012
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information on meetings, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/index.cfm
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