The Quest for Quality—The Future is Now
By: Dwight L. Smith, Vice President of Academic Affairs, County College of Morris, New Jersey The Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) is providing a framework for faculty across institutions within...
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By: Dwight L. Smith, Vice President of Academic Affairs, County College of Morris, New Jersey One session from this year’s Annual Meeting offered an interesting report from an effort to improve...
View ArticleHEDs Up Sessions—Why We Fight
By: Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Friday morning at the 2013 AAC&U Annual Meeting, I attended a series of...
View ArticleThe Economic Future of Liberal Arts Colleges
By: Alison Byerly, Professor at Middlebury College, Visiting Scholar at MIT; and Incoming President of Lafayette College (July 2013) Last week’s AAC&U session on “The Economic Future of Liberal...
View ArticleImproving College Readiness: Perspectives on Assessment, Equity, Access, and...
By: Dwight L. Smith, Vice President of Academic Affairs, County College of Morris, New Jersey The Common Core Standards and the development of the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of...
View ArticleLiberal Arts Degrees: Are They Worthless or DoThey Help American Businesses...
The relentless push to increase “efficiency” in both higher education and government continues apace. Unfortunately, as is often the case these days, the focus on efficiency is also leading to an...
View ArticleTechnology and Liberal Education: Yes and…
By Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) The theme of this year’s annual meeting, “Innovations, Efficiencies, and...
View ArticleSupporting Contingent Faculty for High-Quality Learning: New Resources
This blog post was coauthored by Susan Albertine, AAC&U Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Student Success; Daniel Maxey, Dean’s Fellow in Urban Education Policy, Pullias Center for Higher...
View ArticleFour Steps to Help Students Understand and Describe the Value of a Liberal...
This guest blog post was coauthored by Madeleine F. Green, senior program consultant, and Annie W. Bezbatchenko, program director, both at the Teagle Foundation. Trying to “make the case” for liberal...
View ArticleWhat If the VSA Morphed Into the VST?
By Dr. George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University–Bloomington, and Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) Good on Doug Lederman at Inside Higher...
View ArticleIncreasing College Completion Rates: It’s About More than Economic Benefits
By Peter Ewell, Vice President at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Increasing the proportion of young citizens with a college credential has become a major national goal, and...
View ArticleTeach the Vote: Student Learning and Voter Engagement
Earlier this summer the US Supreme Court excised Section 5, a major piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that sets up the framework for the act’s provision of equitable voting practices in certain...
View ArticleKeeping a Focus on the Value of—and Challenges for—the Humanities
President Obama’s recent speeches and proposals focused on college access, completion, and costs have generated much media coverage and commentary about what the “value” of our higher education...
View ArticleTeacher Education and LEAP: Engaging Students in Leadership
A visit to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UW-W) brought me back to an idea from my first LEAP blog post: LEAP frameworks can support connections between school and college. Now, as we all...
View ArticleTrivium Pursuit: Advancing the 3 “C’s” (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and...
In May I had the pleasure of speaking at a lively TEDx conference titled “Reimagining Liberal Education” at my alma mater, Lawrence University. This post attempts to distill—in a form mercifully free...
View ArticleAsking the Right Questions about Adjuncts
Who teaches better, adjuncts or tenure-track faculty? A spate of stories this fall has renewed a debate over contract status and quality of teaching. Dan Berrett’s “Adjuncts Are Better Teachers”...
View Article“Preparing for the Apocalypse?”
By: Jim Salvucci, Dean, The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Stevenson University One of the great paradoxes of higher education has to do with our dueling outlooks on the world. Why do...
View ArticlePublic or Personal Good—the Value of Higher Education
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University Expectations and outcomes, networks and connections, stories and narratives, evidence and information, individual...
View ArticleHeads Up! I Feel a Change Coming On
By: Jim Salvucci, Dean, The School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Stevenson University We got so much in common We strive for the same old ends And I just can’t wait Wait for us to become friends...
View ArticleIntentional Networking and Mentoring
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University Networking, networking, networking. AAC&U’s Annual Meeting is itself a wonderful opportunity for...
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