Recently added articles from Liberal Education:
Ready--or not?(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)(Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Schneider, Carol Geary ... Early in 2008, when we chose the theme for AAC&U's 2009 annual meeting, we could hardly have predicted the dramatic change in the landscape for higher education that would emerge within a few turbulent months. "Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise" has ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009; Tritelli, David ... The striking image reproduced on the cover of this issue depicts twenty-eight thousand oil barrels, each with a capacity of forty-two gallons. The quantity of oil those barrels could contain--equal to the flow of a medium-sized river--is consumed in the United States every two minutes. The ...
LEAP public forum held in Miami.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Liberal Education and America's Promise)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... On May 21, Miami Dade College (MDC) and AAC&U cohosted a public forum at MDC's Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami. In an effort to build on lessons learned through AAC&U's Core Commitments initiative, leaders from higher education, business, civic organizations, government, and the media ...
AAC&U convenes leaders to discuss K-16 issues.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Association of American Colleges and Universities)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In Chicago on May 12, AAC&U and Achieve--an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to educational reform--convened school and postsecondary leaders from several states, policy makers, leaders from major foundations and federal funding agencies, accreditors, and ...
AAC&U receives the 2009 Research and Scholarship Award.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Association of American Colleges and Universities)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The National Council for Research on Women has presented its 2009 Research and Scholarship Award to AAC&U for A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education, the comprehensive report on the current status ...
Upcoming meetings.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Jun 22, 2009; ... * October 1-3, 2009 Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments Minneapolis, Minnesota * October 22-24, 2009 Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities Atlanta, Georgia * January 20-23, 2010 ...
Education for profit, education for freedom.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Nussbaum, Martha C. ... EDITOR'S NOTE: Most of the author's development work has been conducted in India, and she provides an analysis of Indian educational issues in The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future (Harvard University Press, 2006). The full manuscript from which the following ...
Tearing down the gates: confronting the class divide in American Education.(FEATURED TOPIC)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Sacks, Peter ... EDITOR'S NOTE: At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the 2009 Frederic W. Ness Book Award was presented to Peter Sacks for his book Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (University of California Press, 2007) ....
Running the numbers: an American Self-Portrait.(FEATURED TOPIC)
Jun 22, 2009; Jordan, Chris ... EDITOR'S NOTE: The images printed below are part of a larger series entitled Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, which was presented by the photographer during the opening night forum at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. To learn ...
Adaptive budgeting: thirty-four suggestions for raising revenues, cutting costs, retaining students, and saving jobs in hard times.(FEATURED TOPIC)
Jun 22, 2009; Facione, Peter A. ... TIMES ARE TOUGH, very tough. The great majority of institutions, public and private, are looking toward 2009-10 and beyond, in anticipation of the deepest budget cuts in more than a generation--and certainly deeper than at any time in the memory of most current campus leaders. Cuts of 5 ...
Should faculty members teach virtues and values? That is the wrong question.(PERSPECTIVES)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Roche, Mark W. ... Two conflicting perspectives In Save the World on Your Own Time (2008), Stanley Fish argues that faculty members should not educate students in values but should focus on instructing them in the methodologies of the disciplines. In a recent faculty survey, 99 percent identified ...
Increasing access for low-income students and making financial education a priority for higher education.(PERSPECTIVES)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Kezar, Adrianna ... YOU CANNOT pick up a newspaper today without reading about the severe financial and economic conditions facing our society. While the reasons for the current crisis are extremely complex, it is clear that our financially illiterate culture is one major contributing factor. What ...
The St. Lawrence University Adirondack Semester.(PERSPECTIVES)(Organization overview)
Jun 22, 2009; Johnson, Baylor ... A SMALL GROUP of students walk quickly down a path layered with pine needles and buttered with afternoon sun. In the trees overhead the breeze sighs, and high above the canopy a bald eagle screeches. At the top of the hill, the students left their university van. At the bottom, they will ...
The disorienting dilemma: the senior capstone as a transformative experience.(PERSPECTIVES)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Sill, David ... UNDERLYING MUCH of what we do in higher education is the often unstated assumption that a college education is a transformative experience. One hundred and fifty years ago, John Henry Newman in The Idea of a University pointed out that education stretches beyond knowledge and skills: ...
Sustaining institutional mission through "pilgrimage".(MY VIEW)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 22, 2009; Weiss, Charles S. ... I HAVE SPENT THIRTY-FOUR years at the College of the Holy Cross as a professor and administrator. My current responsibilities include foundation and corporate giving, so I talk and write about the mission and identity of Holy Cross literally every day. I have studied faculty development ...
