AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career.
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Founded in 1915, AAC&U now comprises nearly 1,400 member institutions—including accredited public and private colleges, community colleges, research universities, and comprehensive universities of every type and size.
Mission: The mission of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is to make liberal education and inclusive excellence the foundation for institutional purpose and educational practice in higher education.
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To ensure equitable access, support, and learning for as many students as possible—including disabled and nondisabled students—the University of Arizona is redesigning curricula, cocurricular experiences, and campus spaces according to principles of universal design.
https://www.aacu.org/campus-model/universal-design-during-covid-19-supporting-disabled-and-nondisabled-students
Last Friday night, former Mississippi Governor William Winter died. An honorary cochair of the nationwide Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) process, he was a courageous and tireless advocate for racial and economic justice. https://www.aacu.org/blog/transformed-heart-and-lifetime-commitment
Last Friday night, December 18, former Mississippi Governor William Winter died at the age of 97. An honorary cochair of the nationwide Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) process, he was a courageous and tireless advocate for racial and economic justice and a leader who inspired others to...
Registration for the AAC&U Virtual Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment is now open. The conference will develop practices that serve quality learning and further equity in #HigherEd. Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/34yJkrH.
Register now for AAC&U’s Virtual Annual Meeting to join #HigherEd leaders in sharing inspiring ideas on liberal education, equity and inclusion, and revolutionizing higher education after COVID-19. https://www.aacu.org/events/am21
Congratulations to the nine recipients of the 2021 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of #HigherEd and are committed to academic innovation. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3apTIWi.
Washington, DC—The Association of American Colleges and Universities announced today the 2021 recipients of the annual K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic ...
Register now for the VALUE Institute, #HigherEd's leading source for direct evidence of student learning that provides institutions, departments, programs, states, and consortia with external validation of institutional assessment of learning outcomes. https://www.aacu.org/VALUEInstitute
Many students with disabilities face challenges transitioning to online learning. Universal design for learning can support all students, bolster motivation, change how they receive and perceive information, and improve capacity to navigate learning tasks. https://www.aacu.org/blog/accommodating-all-learners-and-creating-accessible-online-classrooms
Many students with disabilities face challenges in the transition to online or hybrid learning, as they are removed from the structure of the physical classroom and must now rely solely on technology for their coursework. By creating supportive experiences that help all students in a manner best sui...
This holiday season brings to a close an exceptionally difficult and wrenching year. As we gather with family and friends—in person, virtually, or in spirit—let us look together with hope to the new year. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season. https://aacu.org/blog/holiday-message-aacu
Register now for AAC&U's Annual Meeting, which will bring campus leaders together to explore pressing questions facing #HigherEd, share effective practices and new financial models, and work out what education will look like in a post-pandemic future. https://www.aacu.org/events/am21
Liberal arts or job-specific training? Why not both? Learn why leaders from #HigherEd and business don't see these traditionally opposing mindsets as incompatible. Join our free webinar on December 16 at 2 p.m. (EST) to learn more. Register at https://bit.ly/3qIhYsp.
In our newly redesigned magazine, AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella explores how liberal education frees the mind, contests threats to democracy, and produces "citizens who are less susceptible to manipulation and prejudice and more disposed to civic and democratic engagement." https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2020/fall/president
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To get an accreditor’s view of assessment, we asked Belle S. Wheelan from SACSCOC what she has been hearing and thinking about during the pandemic related to campus climate and what expectations she has for useful evidence of student learning. Full video: https://www.aacu.org/blog/accreditor%E2%80%99s-view-assessment-southern-association-colleges-and-schools-commission-colleges
What is the role of #HigherEd in upholding the values of equity and diversity, and in sustaining democracy? Where are we falling short—and for whom? Can acknowledging the truth that all students are not well served by aspects of the existing educational environment lead us to reimagine systems, structures, and policies? How do we promote transformative forms of engagement across differences that lead to more just and equitable communities?
AAC&U invites colleagues to join the Virtual Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, “Upholding These Truths: Equity, Diversity, and Democracy,” to explore these topics. https://bit.ly/38NOdzV
AAC&U has published the newest issue of the biannual International Journal of ePortfolio, which seeks to encourage the study of practices and pedagogies associated with ePortfolios in educational settings. Click to read the latest issue: http://www.theijep.com/current.cfm.
IJeP has two affiliates: the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) and the ePortfolio and Identity Conference.
In a normal semester, students in Guttman Community College's Ethnographies of Work first-year experience would be found observing work throughout New York City. This year, they had to redesign fieldwork experiences to equitably meet learning outcomes in a virtual world. https://www.aacu.org/blog/how-we-can-rethink-experiential-learning-workplace
A centerpiece of Guttman Community College's first-year experience learning model is the Ethnographies of Work (EOW) course, a required yearlong social science investigation of workplaces that helps students better understand and exercise agency around their future career paths. In a normal semester...
Welcome to the new Liberal Education, a reimagining of AA&CU’s flagship publication. This inaugural issue explores “How COVID-19 Turned Higher Ed Upside Down and Created New Urgency for Racial Justice, Student Well-Being, and Democratic Engagement.” https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2020/fall
Welcome to the new Liberal Education, a reimagining of the original Liberal Education that incorporates the themes of AAC&U’s now-retired journals, Diversity & Democracy and Peer Review. When we began developing this publication, we never imagined that we would launch the inaugural issue during ...
Austin Community College District is one of 26 colleges and universities that have established Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers to prepare the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. AAC&U’s Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand this vital work. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
UMBC is one of 26 colleges and universities that have established Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers to prepare the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. AAC&U’s Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand this vital work. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
@uhmanoa is one of 26 colleges and universities that have established Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers to prepare the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. AAC&U’s Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand this vital work. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
Join AAC&U’s Tia Brown McNair today at 5 pm (ET) as she discusses her “From Equity Talk to Equity Walk” book in the first free webinar of the “Future of Learning” series from the from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. https://bit.ly/2KUI6Qh
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), along with Bakersfield College, present an online seminar series in partnership with the California Community College system, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC), the Pacific Postsecondary Education Panel...
Click below for the full discussion with leaders from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education exploring the campus climate toward assessment at their member institutions and the accreditors' expectations for useful evidence of student learning:
https://www.aacu.org/blog/accreditors-view-assessment-middle-states-commission-higher-education
Click below for the full discussion with leaders from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education exploring the campus climate toward assessment at their member institutions and the accreditors' expectations for useful evidence of student learning:
https://www.aacu.org/blog/accreditors-view-assessment-middle-states-commission-higher-education
The Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand the work of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers, and a donation will help advance AAC&U’s efforts to make quality and equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy. ETS is partnering with AAC&U to support the expansion of TRHT Campus Centers dedicated to preparing the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. You can find information on how to donate at https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm and learn about ETS’s contribution at https://bit.ly/3qgcm8D.
Thank you to Wiley Education Services for partnering with us in the Unite for Truth campaign this #GivingTuesday. This campaign supports the work of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers around the country. A donation to the Unite for Truth campaign helps our work to make quality and equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy. You can find information on how to donate at https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm and learn about Wiley’s contribution at https://bit.ly/3qgcm8D.
Lynn Pasquerella joined Plugged in With Greta Van Susteren to talk about education during the pandemic and its long-term impacts.
https://fb.watch/24OGRuA6c9/
This week on Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren for Wednesday, November 25, 2020; Education in a Pandemic. More than 1.6 billion students around the world are impacted by school closures due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Greta speaks with educators and experts on remote learning to examine the long-term impact of social distancing on students and educators around the globe.
Register now for the VALUE Institute, #HigherEd's leading source for direct evidence of student learning that provides institutions, departments, programs, states, and consortia with external validation of institutional assessment of learning outcomes. https://www.aacu.org/VALUEInstitute
Agnes Scott College’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers is dedicated to preparing the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. This #GivingTuesday, the Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand the work of TRHT to more campuses. A donation will continue AAC&U’s efforts to make quality and equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
University of Cincinnati is one of 26 colleges and universities that have established Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers. These centers prepare the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. This #GivingTuesday, the Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds for TRHT, and a donation will support AAC&U’s efforts to make quality and equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
A survey from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice—conducted before the pandemic—finds that 38% of faculty faced housing or food insecurity. Some groups—especially faculty of color, LGBT faculty, younger faculty, and faculty new to their institution—were disproportionately affected. https://www.aacu.org/aacu-news/newsletter/even-pandemic-many-faculty-faced-food-insecurity-housing-insecurity-or
Earlier this year, as COVID-19 upended higher education and caused widespread concerns about health and financial stability, a survey from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice found that more than half of students faced basic needs insecurity (food insecurity, housing insecurity, or h...
Otterbein University is one of 26 colleges and universities that have established Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers. TRHT Campus Centers prepare the next generation of leaders to address racism and dismantle the persistent and false belief in a hierarchy of human value. This #GivingTuesday, the Unite for Truth campaign is raising funds to expand the work of TRHT, and a donation will support AAC&U’s efforts to make quality and equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy. https://bit.ly/3kWi4Zm
“ePortfolios should never be about the tool or the technology....It’s always about the pedagogy.” ePortfolio leaders at the University of Puget Sound and Middle Tennessee State University share their recent work to create cultures of reflection and integrative learning on their campuses.
https://www.aacu.org/aacu-news/campus-model/building-culture-reflection-and-integrative-learning-through-eportfolios
More than ten years ago, when the University of Puget Sound first explored implementing ePortfolios on campus, the project fizzled out as faculty and students grew frustrated with the clunky technology. “ePortfolios should never be about the tool or the technology,” says Renée Houston, associat...
Register now for AAC&U's Annual Meeting, which will bring campus leaders together to explore pressing questions facing #HigherEd, share effective practices and new financial models, and work out what education will look like in a post-pandemic future. https://www.aacu.org/events/am21
Covid-19 has brought financial strains, high unemployment rates, and a volatile economic market. AAC&U has joined the American Council on Education and other higher ed associations in writing to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asking for an extension to the current suspension of payment and zero percent interest for federal student loan borrowers, as well as the suspension of collections on defaulted loans. We believe these measures will protect students until financial conditions improve. Click to read more at https://bit.ly/374BtSS.
New data from analysts & workers provide quantitative support for a common refrain among educators: that the mix of general & specific learning associated with US #HigherEd is exactly what students need to succeed in the modern workforce. Read insights on the new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce in our blog.
https://www.aacu.org/blog/competencies-students-need-workforce-success
A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce uses data from workers and analysts to explore the competencies—or knowledge, skills, and abilities—most associated with career success. Taken together, the findings provide quantitative support for a common refrai...
AAC&U has joined @AmericanCouncilEducation and other #HigherEd associations in sending a community letter to President-elect Biden identifying Executive Branch action we would like to see addressed by the incoming administration. https://bit.ly/3pKzKLd
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We want to hear from you! Tell us how you, as an educator, are staying positive during these challenging times. How are you helping students stay positive? We'll feature some responses in an upcoming issue of our magazine. Send 100 words or less to [email protected].
In the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia series, Jenny Bergeron discusses key considerations about validity that faculty and assessment professionals should keep in mind as they design curricula, assignments, and assessments in new teaching environments. https://www.aacu.org/blog/maintaining-validity-online-assessments
"Participation and voting—right now, that's the most urgent thing."—Dr. Bernard Lafayette, civil rights leader. For a discussion with Dr. Lafayette and resources to get engaged in the election, visit AAC&U's Voter Participation Resources page: http://aacu.org/vote
In the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia series, Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers discusses how educators can create and assess learning in a digital classroom community. Read and watch the full discussion here: https://www.aacu.org/blog/creating-and-assessing-learning-digital-classroom-community
In the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia series, high school teacher Amanda Clarke reflects on how rubrics made for college students have influenced her high schoolers: "How VALUE Reminded Me to Love Learning." Read and watch the full discussion here: https://www.aacu.org/blog/how-value-reminded-me-love-learning
In the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia series, Isana Leshchinskaya and Claudio Piani explore how to maintain validity and fairness in student course evaluations as classes are disrupted by COVID-19. https://www.aacu.org/blog/student-evaluation-teaching-covid-19-considerations-validity-and-fairness
In the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia blog series, Catherine Wehlburg discusses innovative faculty approaches to formative assessment during the pandemic and the switch to online learning. Read the full blog article and watch the video discussion here: https://www.aacu.org/blog/measuring-student-learning-exams-what-covid-19-can-teach-us
In the 2nd entry of the "Next-Gen Assessment" multimedia series, Tammie Cumming and M. David Miller explore how learning outcomes are contracts with students that must remain constant even in the shift to online learning during #COVID19. Read and watch: https://www.aacu.org/blog/what-changes-keeping-learning-outcomes-consistent-times-change
“Whatever you do, you have to start with your mission and your vision for the institution. This is no time to lose sight of your core values.” Watch AAC&U’s full series of free webinars on “Quality, Equity, and Inclusion during the #COVID19 Crisis”: https://bit.ly/2wQDu7d
“I think it’s important to listen to our kids.” In an earlier webinar, Mary Dana Hinton gave advice to parents about navigating #COVID19 plans in the fall. Join our next free webinar on June 9 to see how #HigherEd leaders are planning for the future: https://bit.ly/2LJHni0
We want to hear from you! Send us your story about a time a student taught you something in class. We'll feature responses in an upcoming magazine column. Reply here, or send (slightly) longer responses of less than 100 words to Ben Dedman at [email protected].
We want to hear from you! Send us your story about a time a student taught you something in class. We'll feature responses in an upcoming magazine column. Reply here, or send (slightly) longer responses of less than 100 words to Ben Dedman at [email protected].
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.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. shares a song and narrative from his experience in jail during the Freedom Rides during the civil rights movement at the AAC&U 2019 Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
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