Recently added articles from Peer Review:
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Oct 01, 2008; ... Intentional and integrative learning have been themes in our work at AAC&U for decades. But in recent years, the urgency with which college leaders and faculty have embraced these concepts has increased significantly. Our members know that these issues stand at the heart of the task of ...
Toward Intentionality and Transparency: Analysis and Reflection on the Process of General Education Reform
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 2000, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) launched its multiyear initiative, Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) was one of sixteen colleges and universities from across the nation ...
AAC&U MEETINGS
Oct 01, 2008; ... ANNUAL MEETING READY OR NOT: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise January 21-24, 2009 Seattle, Washington NETWORK MEETINGS GENERAL EDUCATION, ASSESSMENT, AND THE LEARNING STUDENTS NEED February 26-28, ...
Enhancing Intentionality in the Requirement-free Curriculum
Oct 01, 2008; ... Brown University has marched to the beat of its own drummer for decades, encouraging students to forge their own curricular paths and, in 1969, removing general education course requirements. While many colleges and universities have since expanded and solidified requirements for general ...
Liberal Arts Matters at Butler University: An Experiment in Institutional Transformation
Oct 01, 2008; ... The LEAP (Liberal Education and America's Promise) National Leadership Council has asked that American society give a new priority to what the council calls "the essential learning outcomes for college students" (American Association of Colleges and Universities 2007). These outcomes are the ...
Intentionality and Integration in Undergraduate Global Public Health Education
Oct 01, 2008; ... Public health is capturing the energy and imagination of undergraduate students across the country, and University of Virginia (UVa) faculty, like many other faculties in both small colleges and large universities, are responding with innovative new courses and academic programs. As a relatively ...
Integrative Learning: A Room with a View
Oct 01, 2008; ... The College of San Mateo (CSM), one of California's 110 community colleges, sits atop a hill above San Francisco Bay. The campus architecture, a 1960s rendering of classical columns and flaring cornices, invokes lofty educational ideals. We have many faculty here dedicated to those ...
Intentional and Integrated Learning in a New Cognitive Age: A Signature Pedagogy for Undergraduate Education in the Twenty-First Century
Oct 01, 2008; ... From its very start, the land-grant approach to higher education focused on intentional and integrated learning in ways that distinguished itself from previous models of higher education. Students needed different skills to solve die real problems facing real people in real communities. And they ...
Why Integration and Engagement are Essential to Effective Educational Practice in the Twenty-first Century
Oct 01, 2008; ... A AC&U recently published High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, the latest report from its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative. In it, George D. Kuh reports on decades of research proving that participating in ...
Highlights of AAC&U's Work on Intentionality and Integrative Learning
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEW SUMMER INSTITUTE THE ENGAGING DEPARTMENTS INSTITUTE will provide campus teams of academic administrators, department chairs, and faculty with an intensive, structured time to advance their plans to foster, assess, and improve student learning within departments and across the ...
Integrative Learning: Setting the Stage for a Pedagogy of the Contemporary
Oct 01, 2008; ... Underlying the significant social and technical changes of our increasingly global society is a profound transformation in the very nature of learning. Twenty-first-century learners view themselves as dynamic agents in multimedia and global environments. These learners create complex social ...
AAC&U MEETINGS
Apr 01, 2008; ... NETWORK MEETINGS DIVERSITY, LEARNING, AND INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE: Accelerating and Assessing Progress October 16-18, 2008 Long Beach, California ENGAGING SCIENCE, ADVANCING LEARNING: General Education, Majors, and the New Global ...
The Place of Political Learning in College
Apr 01, 2008; ... Although preparing young people for intelligent democratic participation is undeniably important for them and for the country, this goal is not addressed in a direct and systematic way in American higher education. To be sure, higher education does improve political understanding and engagement ....
FROM THE EDITOR
Apr 01, 2008; ... The proposition that 'Young People Don't Vote' has finally been proven wrong," proclaimed Heather Smith, executive director of Rock the Vote, a nonprofit group that encourages young people to participate in the political process. This claim seems justified-the Center for Information and Research ...
Value-Added Learning
Apr 01, 2008; ... For a growing number of American college and university students, the fundamental aspects of higher education are not enough. Frequently, students desire some advanced learning that takes them beyond the boundaries of pristine college campuses to the high-stakes environment of the nation's ...
New Research on College Students' Political Views
Apr 01, 2008; ... In the charged political climate surrounding the upcoming presidential election, where do college students fit in? According to new research conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, American college students are politically ...
Promoting Student Political Engagement and Awareness at the University of South Dakota
Apr 01, 2008; ... How does a university prepare students to take active roles in democracy-roles beyond the ballot box-as engaged citizens who help frame both issues and solutions in communities, the nation, and the world? The question is an important one, especially given Robert Putnam's thesis that Americans ...
Prairie View A&M Students Walk the Walk of Political Engagement
Apr 01, 2008; ... It was a typical late winter day on the rolling hills of South Texas. But something was happening just over the horizon that was not business as usual. A group of students from Prairie View (PV) A&M University, a historically black college, were approaching the Waller County Courthouse, with ...
Promoting Political Engagement through American Government Classes
Apr 01, 2008; ... American government is the only course that all students are required to take while earning their degrees at Michigan's Oakland Community College (OCC). This unique status brings with it scrutiny from a number of groups: students from every academic and technical field, many of whom approach the ...
Reframing and Reclaiming Democracy: Higher Education's Challenge
Apr 01, 2008; ... At the end of May 2008, students, civic leaders, and faculty and staff in leadership studies and development from universities across the country came together for a national symposium on civic leadership education and democracy. These talented students were already passionate activists, ...