2009
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Fall 2009
A Symposium on Effective Practice
Drawing from a recent public forum cosponsored by AAC&U and Clark University, this issue presents a series of commissioned papers on liberal education and effective practice. Also included are articles on individualized learning across the curriculum and the need to recognize emotion as a part of knowing.
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Summer 2009
The AAC&U Annual Meeting
This issue represents the theme of the 2009 annual meeting, “Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise.” Included are highlights of the meeting, along with the keynote address from the 2008 annual meeting. Additional articles examine the faculty’s role in students’ moral formation, efforts to increase access for low-income students, and the senior capstone as a transformative experience.
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Spring 2009
Liberal Education and the Disciplines
Drawing from a recent initiative of the Teagle Foundation, this issue presents a series of reports on the relationship between the goals and objectives of liberal education and those of the undergraduate major in each of six disciplines: biochemistry and molecular biology, classics, economics, English and foreign languages, history, and religious studies.
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Winter 2009
Liberal Education and Effective Practice
This issue examines how the vision for college learning outlined in the 2007 report from AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative is being enacted by particularly effective forms of educational practice and explores some of the ongoing challenges to implementation.
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Fall 2008
Globalization and U.S. Higher Education
This issue explores the potential impact of the Bologna Process on higher education in the United States, the phenomenon of global branding, and the functions and motives of U.S. institutions of higher education that are establishing overseas operations in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Also included are articles on accountability and on advising a diverse student body.
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Summer 2008
Annual Meeting 2008
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U’s 2008 annual meeting, “Intentional Learning, Unscripted Challenges: Knowledge and Imagination for an Interdependent World.” Included are selected papers presented at the meeting. Additional articles examine general education and assessment, the Advanced Placement program, and religion in higher education.
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Spring 2008
Science Education, Liberal Education
This issue explores undergraduate science education, including a look at curricular and pedagogical issues related to teaching non-majors and developments in the undergraduate STEM learning environment. Also included are articles on accountability and comparability, institutional change, and environmental history.
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Winter 2008
The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies
This issue considers the role of interdisciplinary studies within the academy, in general, and within the undergraduate curriculum, in particular. Also included are articles on the transformative power of art, a liberal education "scorecard," "inside-out" leadership, international education and Middle East development, general education metaphors, an innovative community-based research course, and Rachel Carson as an exemplar of the liberally educated citizen.
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Fall 2007
Faculty Leadership and Institutional Change
This issue offers recommendations for strengthening faculty governance, examines campus practices and policies that can reverse or slow current trends impeding faculty leadership, and explores the complex interplay among organizational structures within higher education. Also included are articles on public health, the impact of teacher-scholars, a program focused on poverty, and an argument against the syllabus.
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Summer 2007
2007 Annual Meeting
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U's 2007 annual meeting, "The Real Test: Liberal Education and Democracy's Big Questions." Included are selected papers presented at the meeting. Additional articles examine the practicality of a liberal education, faculty accountability for cultural inclusiveness, and student civic engagement.
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Spring 2007
Liberal Education and the "Big Questions"
This issue examines how the “big questions” of meaning and purpose are explored within the context of a contemporary liberal education. Also included are articles on civic engagement, integrative learning, and the distinctiveness of American higher education.
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Winter 2007
Bringing Theory to Practice
This issue provides an overview of the Bringing Theory to Practice project, an effort to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students’ education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement. Also included are articles on diversity, a reflection on teaching in a first-year program, and the executive summary of the new LEAP report.
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Fall 2006
Faculty Work
This issue foregrounds the need for a comprehensive and transformative approach to the reorganization of faculty work. Articles examine threats to professional autonomy, the future of faculty governance, and support for faculty in the middle phase of their careers. Also included are the winning student essays from the University of Wisconsin System’s Liberal Arts Scholarship Competition and articles exploring the roles of “social justice” and “other ways of knowing” in liberal education.
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Summer 2006
2006 Annual Meeting
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U's 2006 annual meeting, “Demanding Excellence: Liberal Education in an Era of Global Competition, Anti-Intellectualism, and Disinvestment.” Included are selected papers presented at the meeting. Additional articles explore collaborative scholarship and tenure, faculty engagement in the liberal arts, and the “success” of learning communities.
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Spring 2006
Academic Freedom
Among the articles on the featured topic is an official statement from AAC&U’s board of directors, as well as three responses to it. Also included is a discussion of the relationship between academic advising and liberal learning, a report from two engaged learning experiments, and a look at an institutional change initiative designed to foster "equity-mindedness."
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Winter 2006
Leadership in the New Academy
The theme of the new issue of Liberal Education, "leadership in the new academy," explores issues related to educational leadership and shared governance and examines the role of both faculty and presidential leadership in guiding curricular change. Also included are a report on students' perceptions of the disciplines and a look at the role of spirituality in liberal learning.
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Summer/Fall 2005
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
The theme of the summer/fall issue, "educating for personal and social responsibility," explores the contribution of undergraduate education to student's moral and ethical development. Also included are a report on student attitudes toward liberal education and articles on the "chilly climate" for women in the sciences and engineering and on the integration of interdisciplinary study and participation in research into the core mission of undergraduate education.
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Spring 2005
Liberal Education and the New Academy
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U's 2005 annual meeting, "Liberal Education and the New Academy." Included are selected papers presented at the meeting. Additional essays explore the challenge of religion in the liberal education of world citizens, the civic promise of service learning, and the defense of liberal education.
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Winter
2005
The Future of Diversity
With an eye to the future, this issue explores
the present state of diversity on campus. It also
features explorations of the relationship between
liberal education and the entrepreneurial mindset
and between teaching students and waiting tables;
discussion of the economics of higher education;
and reflections on the role of liberal learning
within the context of the political and social
tumult of the late 1960s
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Fall
2004
Beyond Computer Literacy
This issue explores how computer technology broadens
the range of experiences and resources available
to students and enhances the role of faculty.
It also features the results of the first Faculty
Survey of Student Engagement, an essay on the
GI Bill from the 1945 Bulletin of the Association,
and reflections on the cultural climate of plagiarism.
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Summer
2004
Cultural Studies and General Education
The summer issue of Liberal Education
explores the field of cultural studies and its
impact on the undergraduate general education
curriculum. Additional essays address whether
we need an Academic Bill of Rights, ways to infuse
elements of civic engagement into the curriculum,
and the Quality in Higher Education (QUE) project
for reforming undergraduate education
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Spring
2004
2004 Annual Meeting - Practicing Liberal
Education
This issue represents the theme of AAC&U's
2004 Annual Meeting -- practicing liberal education.
It features topics such as liberal education and
the professions, civic engagement, producing minority
leaders, and the role of spirituality in liberal
education. Additional essays explore faculty development,
networked collaboration as a means of curricular
change, and "Ten Lessons for Liberal Education
Regarding the Higher Education Act Reauthorization."
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Winter
2004
Looking Forward, Looking Back - 90 Years
in Print
The winter issue of Liberal Education
celebrates ninety years of AAC&U history and
publication, a history that has always had a central
focus on the liberal education to which every
student should have access for their full human
development. The Featured Topic section takes
stock of the current enterprises in undergraduate
education and looks forward across the educational
horizon.
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Fall
2003
Realigning Faculty Roles
Seen in the larger context of globalization,
economic trends, and the changing academy, the
nature of the faculty profession is radically
changing from its traditional understanding of
teaching, research, and service. This issue looks
at what is happening on a micro level of campus
life and the overall direction the profession
is heading.
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Summer
2003
Cognition and Student Learning
Features articles on how college students
learn how to advance their intellectual and ethical
development. The issue also includes perspectives
on the "geoethics of citizenship," program
assessment at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and
remarks on the value of liberal education by Alan
Greenspan.
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Spring
2003
The Courage To Question: Liberal Education
for the 21st Century
A sampling of talks from the 2003 Annual Meeting
illuminating what's happening in higher education,
from preparation of future faculty, through innovative
teaching and learning strategies, to institutional
reform.
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Winter
2003
Taking Hold: Liberal Education Around
the Globe
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2002 |
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Fall
2002
Civic Engagement
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Summer
2002
Changing Course: Preparing Faculty for
the Future
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Spring
2002
Annual Meeting: Changing Students in a
Changing World
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Winter
2002
Vital Signs: Voices from the Field
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Fall
2001
Religion on Campus
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Summer
2001
Expanding the Horizon of Liberal Education
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Spring
2001
Degrees of Value: Technology, Markets,
and the Aims of Education
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