2008 Annual Meeting
INTENTIONAL LEARNING, UNSCRIPTED CHALLENGES
Knowledge and Imagination for an Interdependent World
Pre-Meeting Symposium
Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
NO LONGER OPTIONAL:
EDUCATING FOR PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The following information has been prepared for registrants of the Pre-Meeting Symposium
Summary Version of the Core Commitments Institutional Matrix
The matrix is a tool developed for campus leaders to map where their institution offers opportunities for students to learn responsibility to self and others. It will function as a guiding document for the Symposium, so we would like to encourage participants to take a look at the summary matrix before the symposium. Please contact Michèle Leaman at leaman@aacu.org with any questions. The complete version of the matrix is available here. (PDF)
About the Symposium
This symposium is designed for those who believe that higher education can no longer avoid the collective institutional obligation to attend to students’ moral, ethical, and civic development as a fundamental dimension of their college experience, both in and out of the classroom.
As we prepare students for a world of conflicting and colliding values, whether in the work place, their own communities, or the larger global landscape, what capacities and commitments do they need to have culled from college? What will give them the knowledge, values, skills, and will to lead lives of personal integrity and responsibility to themselves and to the larger community?
The plenary and concurrent sessions will feature the work of AAC&U’s signature initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility and an AAC&U partner project, Bringing Theory to Practice. These two efforts share a premise that personal integrity and ethics cannot be developed in isolation from a commitment to and engagement with others, and that ethical, civic, and moral development must be closely tied to a substantive vision for student learning in the college years.
Participants should leave the symposium with new conceptual frameworks related to personal and social responsibility, practical examples of how leaders are implementing this learning across their campuses, and a matrix designed to assess the pervasiveness of an institution’s efforts to educate students for personal and social responsibility.
No Longer Optional: Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility is supported by the John Templeton Foundation and the Charles Engelhard Foundation.
Featured Speakers and Presenters:
- Anne Colby, Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Thomas Ehrlich, Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Walter Fluker, Executive Director, The Leadership Center, Morehouse College
- Marcia Mentkowski,
Director, Educational Research and Evaluation, Alverno College
- Barry Checkoway, Professor of Social Work and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
- Eric Dey, Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
- Donald Harward, President Emeritus, Bates College, and Director, Bringing Theory to Practice Project
- L. Lee Knefelkamp, Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, AAC&U, and Director, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility
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Elizabeth Kiss |
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Luncheon Keynote:
Moral Development in College (Theirs & Ours)
Presented by Elizabeth Kiss, President, Agnes Scott College
Schedule of Events
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and framing remarks
Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, AAC&U and Director, Core Commitments
8:45-10:00 a.m. Opening Plenary
The Heart of the Academic Matter: Education for Personal and Social Responsibility
This session will address the compelling arguments for why higher education needs to regard education for personal and social responsibility as essential outcomes of a contemporary college education and as the collective responsibility of individuals and units overseeing the curriculum and co-curriculum. Specific attention will be paid to the civic, ethical, and moral dimensions of these important outcomes.
Donald Harward, President Emeritus, Bates College and Director of Bringing Theory to Practice; L. Lee Knefelkamp, Professor of Education and Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and Consultant, Core Commitments; and Walter Fluker, Executive Director, The Leadership Center, Morehouse College and Member of the Core Commitments Advisory Board
10:00-10:15 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:15-11:45 a.m. Second Plenary
Moral Rehearsals for Life-Long Learning
This plenary session will explore the developmental conditions that allow students to grow in moral and ethical understandings and actions. What conditions need to be present in the classroom, on the campus, and through engagement with the larger community? What does the high end of moral commitment look like, especially over time within college and in the years after college?
Anne Colby and Thomas Ehrlich, both Senior Scholars at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Members of the Core Commitments Advisory Board; and Marcia Mentkowski, Director, Educational Research and Evaluation, Alverno College and Member of the Core Commitments Advisory Board
Nancy O’Neill, AAC&U Director of Programs, will serve as moderator.
12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon Keynote
Moral Development in College (Theirs and Ours)
Elizabeth Kiss, President, Agnes Scott College, introduced by Carol Geary Schneider, President, AAC&U
President Kiss, the former Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, will focus her remarks on how a commitment to student moral and civic development can also lead to moral change and development for faculty, administrators, and institutional culture as a whole. She will also address what kind of leadership is necessary to nurture such synergies.
1:45-3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Promoting Commitment to the Common Good: What Makes a Difference?
This session will examine practices that illustrate how contributing to local and global communities can be woven into the college experience across the curriculum and co-curriculum. It will also highlight research that measures the impact of such learning over time.
Nancy Wilson, Director & Associate Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service, Tufts University; Denise Maybank, Associate Vice President and Director of Student Life, Michigan State University; and
Jennifer M. Pigza, Associate Director at the Catholic Institute for LaSallian Social Action, St. Mary's College of California
Integrating Personal and Social Responsibility into the Curriculum
This session will highlight a range of curricular designs that feature developmental pathways through which students can deepen their understanding and practice of personal and social responsibility.
George Agich, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the BGeXperience Program, Bowling Green State University; Clea Andreadis, Dean, Division of Social Science and Human Services, Middlesex Community College; and
Lou Matz,
Associate Dean of General Education, University of the Pacific
How Do We Know How We Are Doing? Assessing Institutional Climate and Student Progress
This session will focus on how campus leaders can measure their progress in educating students for personal and social responsibility. Participants will learn about a new instrument that AAC&U developed for Core Commitments, the Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Inventory. The inventory surveys four campus constituent groups (academic administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and students) about where opportunities for learning personal and social responsibility exist. Participants will also learn about methods to assess students’ increasing sophistication in these important outcomes over time.
Eric Dey,
Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan and Core Commitments
Director of Research and Assessment; and Marcia Mentkowski,
Director, Educational Research and Evaluation, Alverno College and Core Commitments Advisory Board Member
Assessing Ineffable Outcomes (PDF)
3:00-3: 30 p.m. Refreshment Break
3:30-4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Implications of Civic Learning on Student Well Being: Lessons from Bringing Theory to Practice
Drawing from a five-year project that is exploring the relationship between service learning, community-based research, and other forms of engaged learning in terms of their influence of students’ health and overall well-being, this session will summarize the key research findings and promising campus models.
Barry Checkoway,
Professor of Social Work and Urban Planning, University of Michigan and BTtoP
Director of the Demonstration and Intensive Site Program;
Ashley Finley,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dickinson College
and BTtoP Cross-site Evaluator of the Demonstration and Intensive Site Program; and
Valerie Lehr,
Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs, St. Lawrence University
Making Personal and Social Responsibility Everyone’s Responsibility: Building Commitment and Collaboration across Academic and Student Affairs
This session will feature institutions that have created the educational vision and organizational structures to bring academic affairs and students affairs together to accelerate students’ learning about their responsibilities to self and others.
Thomas Moore, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Winthrop University; Marilyn Kurata, Director of Core Curriculum Enhancement, University of Alabama at Birmingham; and Marianne Calenda, Dean of Students, Elizabethtown College
Collective Collaboration (PDF)
Taking Ethical Responsibility and Integrity Seriously
This session will highlight how different campuses are defining what ethics and integrity mean in the context of their institutional mission and context, as well as mission-specific practices that encourage students’ development of ethical responsibility and integrity.
Rolf Enger, Director of Education, United States Air Force Academy;
Melvinia Turner King, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, Morehouse College; Patricia Mitchell, Associate Professor of Organization and Leadership, University of San Francisco; and Judith Sessions, Dean and University Librarian, Miami University
Respect for Human Dignity Outcome Planning (PDF)
Respect For Human Dignity Thread Visual (PDF)
Ethics and Integrity PowerPoint (PDF)
4:40-5:00 p.m. Closing Session
Mapping Education for Personal and Social Responsibility
Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, AAC&U and Director, Core Commitments
5:00-6:00 p.m. Symposium Reception
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Charles Engelhard Foundation
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