As new models for online education materialize in the wake of COVID-19, it is imperative that institutions keep quality and equity as their central goals. Held January 22–23 in conjunction with AAC&U’s 2021 Annual Meeting, the 12th Annual Forum on Digital Learning and ePortfolios will offer interactive sessions for participants to share emerging best practices and research. Proposals are due July 20, 2020

The Excellence in Assessment (EIA) Designation, cosponsored by AAC&U, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, recognizes institutions for campus-level learning outcomes assessment, with a focus on campus processes and uses of assessment outcomes, rather than on student performance or accomplishment.

The grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will extend pilot faculty development programs designed to improve the effectiveness of course assignments. It will also support an examination of faculty expectations across student groups and the creation of a new tool for assessing the alignment between course assignments and expected learning outcomes.

Since the creation of a new lending facility for nonprofits through the Main Street Lending Program is not a certainty, AAC&U joined the American Council on Education and other associations in calling for the expansion of existing loan programs to better serve colleges and universities. The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, recently passed by the House, contains two provisions that the groups are requesting the Senate to support.

In a new statement, AAC&U and the TRHT Campus Center at Hamline University call on higher education to play a leadership role in addressing racism and white supremacy, the issues at the center of protests across the country and around the world demanding justice for George Floyd.

In this new ebook, Mary Taylor Huber brings the broad discourse about liberal education together with more granular conversations about teaching and learning in order to explore what’s known about teaching practices that promote liberal learning.

AAC&U joined the American Council on Education and other higher education organizations in thanking members of the House and expressing support for the new emergency supplemental spending measure to address the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act would provide $3 trillion to help the nation recover, with about $37 billion allocated for higher education.