AAC&U Program Offices
Office of Education and
Institutional Renewal
AAC&U believes that the most important outcomes of a
college education result from purposeful, engaged, and cumulative
learning. The curriculum as a whole and the institution as
a whole are the most powerful teachers. Significant cultural,
economic, and technological forces demand academic change,
and academic leaders must direct campus attention not just
to strong instructional programs but also to ones that are
forward-looking and cost-effective.
We believe that educational principles and priorities for
learning should drive decisions about resource allocations
at colleges and universities. This agenda involves such steps
as assisting administrators to become educational leaders,
encouraging faculty members to develop institutional perspectives
and capacities to share in institutional decision-making,
and developing collaborative teams of academic leaders to
be stewards of the instructional program.
AAC&U sees the building of faculty capacity as an opportunity
to enhance curricular effectiveness and to prepare future
faculty for multiple academic responsibilities.
In collaboration with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and
Global Initiatives, this office also seeks to support colleges
and universities as they work to “make excellence inclusive”
by both increasing access for traditionally underserved students
and by redefining excellence to include a diversity of perspectives
and ways of knowing. All AAC&U program offices also work
to bridge the divides between K-12 educators and the academy,
and close persistent achievement gaps across all levels of
learning.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications,
meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on
the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this
office’s resources, see especially “faculty,”
and “institutional change.”
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global
Initiatives
AAC&U addresses diversity, global engagement, and social
responsibility as compelling educational and institutional
priorities that advance the civic and economic purposes of
a diverse democracy. AAC&U sees diversity and global knowledge
as essential elements of any effort to foster civic engagement
among today's college students.
AAC&U supports colleges and universities in their efforts
to create settings that foster students' understanding of
the intersection between domestic and global issues and their
sense of responsibility as local and global citizens.
In collaboration with the Office of Education and Institutional
Renewal, this office also seeks to support colleges and universities
as they work to “make excellence inclusive” by
both increasing access for traditionally underserved students
and by redefining excellence to include a diversity of perspectives
and ways of knowing. All AAC&U program offices also work
to bridge the divides between K-12 educators and the academy,
and close persistent achievement gaps across all levels of
learning.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications,
meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on
the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this
office’s resources, see especially “diversity,”
“civic engagement,” “global,” “women,”
and “science and health.”
Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment
AAC&U works with member institutions to address the broad
individual and societal purposes of a liberal education and
to develop curricular and pedagogical practices that respond
to a changing society while providing the finest possible
education for all students and the greatest return to a democratic
society.
Through its large national initiatives, Greater Expectations:
A Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College, AAC&U
works to support learner-centered education both within institutions
and across higher education. AAC&U works with all kinds
of colleges and universities to involve both students and
faculty in forms of learning that are intellectually challenging,
educationally coherent, and responsive to the complexities
-- cultural, political, economic, technological, and scientific
-- of the contemporary world.
For more information on AAC&U projects, publications,
meetings, and institutes on these topics, please click on
the resource links in the left margin of this page. For this
office’s resources, see especially “general education,”
“curriculum,” “assessment,” and “science
and health.”
To see personnel working in each office, see
the AAC&U Staff Directory.
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