AAC&U Vice President Dawn Michele Whitehead joined the Making Global Learning Universal podcast to discuss how campuses can tailor global learning to their own contexts and enable all faculty and students to engage in unique ways with their campuses, communities, and careers. Faculty, staff, and students interested in these themes can join AAC&U for the Conference on Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers, October 8–10 in Miami.

The thirteen additional institutions will host TRHT Campus Centers, following the ten institutions selected in 2017. In partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s TRHT effort, AAC&U works with higher education institutions across the country to create Campus Centers that prepare the next generation of leaders to confront racism and to dismantle the belief in a hierarchy of human value.

AAC&U has formally endorsed a statement by the American Association of University Professors that argues for the importance of expert knowledge and the higher education institutions that produce and transmit it. Addressing an ongoing movement to attack the disciplines and higher education institutions, the statement defends the critical role these institutions perform in producing the knowledge that sustains American democracy, especially in this moment of intense global instability.

AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella has joined the Heterodox Academy Advisory Council, a group of higher education leaders and public intellectuals who will help guide work to enhance the quality and impact of research—and improve education—by promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in higher education.

On behalf of the AAC&U staff, President Lynn Pasquerella released a video message reflecting on the past year and wishing the AAC&U community a happy holiday season. 

AAC&U offers a series of summer institutes designed to help campus teams advance ongoing change initiatives at their home institutions, along with institutes designed specifically for STEM faculty and administrators who seek to transform undergraduate STEM education and to build capacity for cultural responsiveness. Applications are now open for the 2020 Summer Institutes.

Campus teams interested in developing faculty-engaged, evidence-based, and sustainable models to advance quality and equity in student learning outcomes are invited to apply by February 20 for AAC&U's Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. The institute will be held June 2–5 in Atlanta.