Quantitative Literacy
This issue focuses on quantitative literacy as a key outcome of liberal education and explores recent trends in instruction, assessment, and curricular location. Also included is a look at related college readiness issues.
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Summer 2018While the pace of change in higher education can be slow, general education has emerged as a space... Read more -
Spring 2018This issue presents findings from the eight-campus LEAP Challenge: Engaging in Capstones and... Read more -
Winter 2018Global learning, which was once synonymous with “study abroad,” is now defined by the Global... Read more -
Fall 2017Educating students to be responsible, informed, and engaged citizens in their workplaces and the... Read more -
Summer 2017This issue features the AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives project, which has created a large-scale,... Read more -
Spring 2017Since 1970, bachelor degree attainment among students from wealthy families nearly doubled, but it... Read more -
Winter 2017This issue builds on and explores implications of findings from the National Census of Writing. It... Read more -
Fall 2016The Scientific Thinking and Integrative Reasoning Skills (STIRS) framework has been developed, used... Read more -
Summer 2016Adoption of eportfolio pedagogies and practices in conjunction with Signature Work provide the... Read more -
Winter/Spring 2016This issue, funded by TG Philanthropy, explores the relationship between high-impact practices and... Read more -
Fall 2015Sponsored by The Kresge Foundation, this issue focuses on campus, state, regional, and national... Read more -
Summer 2015In a world where college graduates spend the majority of their public lives engaged in work, this... Read more -
Spring 2015This issue, sponsored by the W. M. Keck Foundation as part of the PKAL Guide to Systemic... Read more -
Fall/Winter 2015This issue, sponsored by the Teagle and Mellon foundations, offers insights about the central role... Read more -
Summer 2014Quantitative reasoning skills―the habit of mind, competency, and comfort in working with numerical... Read more -
Spring 2014Close examination of the status of women science and engineering faculty at four-year colleges and... Read more -
Winter 2014E-portfolios are now being used in more than half of US colleges and universities. This issue... Read more -
Fall 2013Whether they’re called senior capstones or some other name, these culminating experiences require... Read more -
Summer 2013This issue explores the evolution of faculty roles, including the growing dependence on non-tenure-... Read more -
Spring 2013This issue highlights lessons learned from Developing a Community College Student Roadmap, the LEAP... Read more -
Winter 2013This issue explores how campus leaders—presidents, boards, administrators and faculty—can best work... Read more -
Fall 2012This issue focuses on the new changes to the MCAT, which focus more on broad integrative learning... Read more -
Summer 2012This issue centers on how faculty are using high-impact educational practices in individual... Read more -
Spring 2012This issue explores how various professional programs, such as education, engineering, and nursing... Read more -
Fall/Winter 2011This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE rubrics, which were tested on more than one hundred pilot... Read more -
Summer 2011This issue of Peer Review emerges from the new partnership between Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) and... Read more -
Spring 2011This issue of Peer Review highlights lessons learned from AAC&U’s LEAP States initiative.... Read more -
Winter 2011Adult students comprise a growing population on college campuses. This issue features a range of... Read more -
Fall 2010Articles in this issue present best practices for creating internships and other experiential... Read more -
Summer 2010This issue explores new strategies for diversifying the faculty and developing their effectiveness... Read more -
Spring 2010This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community... Read more -
Winter 2010This issue explores how departments are developing assessment approaches that deepen student... Read more -
Fall 2009Peer Review, Fall, 2009: Features articles on best practices in campus study abroad programs,... Read more -
Summer 2009This issue makes the case for a bridge between the undergraduate and public health communities,... Read more -
Spring 2009This issue addresses specific challenges faculty are facing in the classroom today. It explores... Read more -
Winter 2009This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE project and provides an overview of new assessment... Read more -
Fall 2008Intentionality and integrative learning, captured in the LEAP vision of essential learning outcomes... Read more -
Spring/Summer 2008This issue examines how the academy engages students in their learning today to help them grow as... Read more -
Winter 2008This issue addresses the role of academic advising in undergraduate education with a special focus... Read more -
Fall 2007Faculty development will play a critical role in efforts to achieve essential learning outcomes for... Read more -
Summer 2007The Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project seeks to advance engaged student learning and... Read more -
Spring 2007As campuses implement more complex assignments, community placements, internships, student research... Read more -
Winter 2007The issue presents data on college readiness, effective strategies for increasing student... Read more -
Fall 2006This issue examines a range of current issues concerning the role and use of technology in student... Read more -
Summer 2006This issue features first-year programs that are designed to facilitate positive transitions for... Read more -
Spring 2006Why is cultivating creative abilities among today’s students so essential? This issue focuses on... Read more -
Winter 2006This issue highlights undergraduate programs that integrate students into the research community... Read more -
Summer/Fall 2005The Summer/Fall 2005 issue of Peer Review focuses on integrative learning. Integrative abilities... Read more -
Spring 2005Sponsored by the Kauffman Consortium for Liberal Education and Entrepreneurship, housed at the... Read more -
Winter 2005This issue explores efforts to improve science education for majors and nonmajors through new forms... Read more -
Fall 2004Challenging the widespread notion that general education is something to "get out of the way as... Read more -
Summer 2004This issue focuses on quantitative literacy as a key outcome of liberal education and explores... Read more -
Spring 2004Planned in coordination with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this issue... Read more -
Winter 2004This issue focuses on the evolving identities and missions of colleges and universities as they... Read more -
Fall 2003This issue focuses on writing as a key outcome of liberal education and explores recent trends in... Read more -
Summer 2003This issue addresses new models for general education with a focus on models of integrative... Read more -
Spring 2003This issue focuses on how the academic goals of liberal education are enhanced by civic engagement... Read more -
Winter 2003This issue provides a critical overview of school-college alignment efforts and makes the case for... Read more -
Fall 2002This issue explores issues and trends associated with the use of part-time and full-time non-tenure... Read more -
Summer 2002This issue explores the ways colleges and universities are addressing the values questions today's... Read more -
Winter/Spring 2002This issue presents the RAND Corporation/Council for Aid to Education's Value Added Assessment... Read more -
Summer/Fall 2001This issue explores the challenges faced by this successful innovation and presents current best... Read more -
Spring 2001This issue provides an overview of the history and current state of academic governance. -
Winter 2001This issue considers the context for, and the challenges of, integrating liberal and professional... Read more -
Fall 2000This issue seeks to provoke informed debate over the shape academic exchange will take in the years... Read more -
Summer 2000This issue looks at the challenges facing those who hope to lead their campuses in revising the... Read more -
Spring 2000This issue argues that, in the context of a liberal education, we should help students understand... Read more -
Winter 2000This issue explores curricular coherence as a systemic challenge and argues that, in an age of... Read more