Recently added articles from Liberal Education:
Bologna plus: the Liberal Education advantage.(President's Message)
Sep 22, 2008; ... FOR MUCH OF THE PAST DECADE, many in higher education were intensely focused on responding to one perturbing idea after another as they emerged from either from the Higher Education Act Reauthorization process or from Secretary Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education ....
College learning for the new global century.(FROM THE EDITOR)
Sep 22, 2008; ... College Learning for the New Global Century, the 2007 LEAP report, argues persuasively that the outcomes of a liberal education are "essential for success in a global economy" and, indeed, that "the capabilities developed through a liberal education have become America's most valuable ...
New LEAP public forums.(NEWS AND INFORMATIO)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... On November 6, academic leaders from across New England will meet in Providence, Rhode Island, for a forum on College Learning for the New Global Century, the 2007 report from AAC&U's Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative. On November 18, AAC&U will cosponsor "Common ...
Global forum held on diversity, democracy, and education.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... On October 2-3, as invitational global forum was held in Strasbourg, France, to address the issue of converging competencies for diversity and sustainable democracy and the role of higher education in developing these competencies. The forum was organized by the Council of Europe and the ...
New LEAP report on "high-impact" practices.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Liberal Education and America's Promise)(High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter--the latest report from AAC&U's Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative--defines a set of educational practices that research shows have a significant impact on student success ....
Upcoming meetings.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
Sep 22, 2008 ... * November 6-8, 2008, Engaging Science, Advancing Learning: General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century, Network for Academic Renewal conference, Providence, Rhode Island * January 21-24, 2009, Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise, ...
AAC&U membership 2008.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Association of American Colleges and Universities)(Table)
Sep 22, 2008 ... <Pre> AAC&U MEMBERSHIP 2008 more than 1, 150 members DOC 17% ASSOC10% OTHER * 16% BACC 26% MASTERS 31% * ...
Accountability "light": our version is going the way of the dollar vs. the Euro.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IT WAS JULY 14, 2006, when the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education posted the second draft of its final report on the Web for all to see. It was the first of the commission's drafts in which the alleged illiteracy of U.S. college graduates was placed in bold space along ...
Bologna: a challenge for liberal education and an exceptional Opportunity.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... WRITING FOR THE Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), Clifford Adelman in May 2008 rendered higher education in the United States a considerable service. His 128-page report, The Bologna Club: What U.S. Higher Education Can Learn from a Decade of European Reconstruction, describes ...
The Council of Europe, the Bologna Process, and education for democracy: an interview with Sjur Bergan.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Interview)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Liberal Education: Why did the Council of Europe launch an initiative on higher education and democratic culture? Sjur Bergan: The Council of Europe is an organization dedicated to promoting democracy, human right, and the rule of law. The council was established in 1949 as the ...
Global branding and the celebrity university.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... REVIEWING THE STRUCTURAL CHANGES in higher education in the three decades following the Second World War, Ulrich Teichler (1988) of the Gesamthochschule Kassel, an authority on such matters, sensed a loss of interest in "grand visions of a possible optimal model in a modern industrial ...
The offshore model for universities.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... FOR SEVERAL YEARS, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been pushing for the liberalization of trade services, of which higher educational services are a highly prized component. The estimated global market for higher educational services is between $40 billion and $50 billion--not much ...
Growing government demands for accountability vs. independence in the university.(PERSPECTIVES)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE TREND toward greater government involvement in assessing quality in U.S. universities is being driven by powerful forces. Universities today receive a tremendous amount of government funding on the local, state, and federal levels. This has led to an increasing pressure on governments ...
The Voluntary System of Accountability: responding to a new era.(PERSPECTIVES)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM of Accountability (VSA) is an aggressive effort by public universities to supply crucial information to important constituencies: prospective students, families, governing bodies, and legislators. The goal for participating universities is to become more transparent ...
A real analysis of real education.(PERSPECTIVES)(Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... CHARLES MURRAY, who argued in The Bell Curve (1994) that low test scores among minority students are caused more by nature than nurture, has now extended his argument from race to class. In Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (2008), Murray ...
Advising a diverse student body: lessons I've learned from trading places.(MY VIEW)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... RECENTLY, the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at die small liberal arts college for women where I teach asked me to join a panel discussion about advising a diverse student body. The panel was part ul a larger series of discussions to he held at our annual faculty retreat ...
Give students a compass: can general education rise to the challenge?(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)(Give Students a Compass: College Learning, General Education, and Student Success)
Jun 22, 2008; ... AAC&U members are strongly committed to general education, and the association is a recognized resource for institutions that are taking a fresh look at general education and its assessment. Now, through our newest national project--Give Students a Compass: College Learning, General ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Every year since 1915, AAC&U has struggled to capture and preserve something of the flavor of our annual meetings and the insights expressed and debated there. We have done this principally through Liberal Education (formerly The Bulletin). Then, in 2006, the advent of podcasting ...
New AAC&U staff and fellow appointments.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(American Association of Colleges and Universities)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Susan Albertine, formerly dean of the School of Culture and Society and professor of English at the College of New Jersey, has been appointed to serve as the first senior director of LEAP State Initiatives in AAC&U's Office of Curriculum, Quality, and Assessment. Albertine will provide ...
99 Institutions send teams to AAC&U summer institutes.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(American Association of Colleges and Universities' Institute on General Education)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Teams from ninety-nine colleges and universities attended the 2008 summer institutes, which offered a time and a place for sustained collaborative work on a project of particular importance to the participating teams' campuses. The Institute on General Education was held in Minneapolis, ...