Recently added articles from Liberal Education:
High stakes, high attrition: the STEM civic shortfall.(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
Mar 22, 2008; Schneider, Carol Geary ... ADAM, MY YOUNGEST, has now finished college, but readers of Liberal Education can be sure that, while there, he was frequently quizzed about every one A AC & U's high-priority topics--including the subject of this issue, college-level learning in science. "Why do you suppose ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; Tritelli, David ... With increasing frequency, scientific literacy is being identified among the most essential outcomes of undergraduate education. This does not mean that every student must now major, double-major, or even minor in one of the sciences. It will always be vitally important for colleges and ...
CCAS endorses the LEAP report.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008 ... The Board of Directors of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) by unanimous decision has endorsed the recommendations and findings of College Learning for the New Global Century, the 2007 report from the National Leadership Council for Liberal ...
CHEA and AAC&U release accountability statement.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Association of American Colleges and Universities)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Major educational associations, including the American Council on Education and the Association of American Universities, joined the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and AAC&U for the formal release of New Leadership for Student Learning and Accountability: A Statement of ...
New survey of employers.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008 ... As part of the Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, AAC&U recently released the results of a national survey of employers. The survey reveals that employers see a need for significant improvement in the skills and knowledge recent college graduates are bringing to ...
Upcoming meetings.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Mar 22, 2008 ... May 30-June 4, 2008, AAC&U Institute on General Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota June 18-22, 2008, Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement, Snowbird, Utah October 16-18, 2008, Diversity, Learning, and ...
AAC&U membership 2008.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Association of American Colleges and Universities)(Table)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008 ... <Pre> AAC&U MEMBERSHIP 2008 more than 1,150 members DOC 17% ASSOC12% OTHER * 17% BACC 26% MASTERS 28% * Specialized schools, ...
Science education for everyone: why and what?(FEATURED TOPIC)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Trefil, James ... THE NOTION THAT a liberally educated person should know some science is well accepted these days. You would have to go pretty far in American academe to find the kind of academics C. P. Snow talked about a half century ago in The Two Cultures--the ones who were proud of their ignorance of ...
Transforming undergraduate programs in science, technology, engineering, & mathematics: looking back and looking ahead.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Narum, Jeanne ... ARE NEW APPROACHES to transforming undergraduate learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) making a difference? If so, how? How do we know? And what next? These are the questions explored in a 1999 report from Project Kaleidoscope, which concluded by making ...
Engaging science, advancing learning: general education, majors, and the new global century.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2008 ... ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES NETWORK FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL CONFERENCE November 6-8, 2008 | Providence, Rhode Island There is strong agreement that the United States must make science achievement a top priority. We need more successful ...
Preparing a new generation of citizens and scientists to face earth's future.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Bralower, Timothy J. ... How Much will global temperatures rise over the next century? How fast will ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland melt and raise global sea level? Will rising temperature and acidification of the oceans extinguish corals and other endangered marine ecosystems? Will global warming cause ...
Accountability & comparability: what's wrong with the VSA approach?(PERSPECTIVES)(Voluntary System of Accountability )
Mar 22, 2008; Hawthorne, Joan ... IN MID-NOVEMBER, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) announced its official approval of the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA). For those of us who have been hiding under rocks during the past few years (not such an odd place to find ...
Celebrating outcomes and cultivating assessments: how the largest college found common ground.(PERSPECTIVES)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Padron, Eduardo J. ... A CLASSIC COMING-OF-AGE ritual in Latin culture is the quinceanera, an elaborate fifteenth birthday celebration held to announce the arrival of a young woman. The quinceanera not only honors girls for having attained a certain level of maturity, but it also raises expectations for their ...
Against all odds: transforming institutional culture.(PERSPECTIVES)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Gano-Phillips, Susan ... IN RECENT YEARS, the University of Michigan-Flint has undertaken more new initiatives than most institutions tackle over an entire generation. Since 2004, we have produced an ambitius five year strategic plan, adopted an ambitious five-year strategic plan, adopted a decentralized budget ...
Transcending the culture wars: environmental history as meta-metanarrative.(PERSPECTIVES)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Zencey, Eric ... REMEMBER THE CULTURE WARS? The term has lost currency but the thing it labeled, a deep division in the American polity, is definitely still with us. And the phenomenon is now global: world economic integration has brought increased contact and conflict between national and supranational ...
Making the familiar campus strange.(MY VIEW)(Travel narrative)
Mar 22, 2008; Siegel, David J. ... ON A DAY when I was supposed to be in Innsbruck, Austria, for a conference, I found myself quite unexpectedly back on my own campus in eastern North Carolina as the sun was coming up. Flight delays had forced me to cancel the trip the day before. Disappointment still clung to me; I had not ...