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Liberal Education for Everyone -- Transforming Professional and Liberal Arts Programs Recent research suggests an emerging consensus that all students need a broader set of skills and capacities, as well as exposure to an expanding base of core knowledge to be adequately prepared for the challenges they will face in their workplaces and communities. The Association of American Colleges and Universities has organized its initiative, Liberal Education and America's Promise around a set of these "essential learning outcomes" increasingly important for all students, whatever their major field or chosen college or university. On Thursday, September 11 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Carol Geary Schneider, president of the association, will lead an audioconference on how these outcomes can best be achieved. Among the topics she will discuss: • The latest research from the Liberal Education
and America's Promise project on on what outcomes are most important
in today's world -- for work, citizenship, and personal development.
The audioconference will help colleges answer these key questions: How can we ensure that all students achieve the essential learning outcomes-whether they major in a traditional liberal arts and sciences field or a professional field? What further changes are needed now to raise the level of achievement for all of today's college students? This audioconference is ideal for: • Provosts Ms. Schneider will make a 30-minute presentation, after
which she will respond to questions posed by participants. The
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| The "Liberal Education for Everyone" audio conference costs $199 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. Register early -- through Wednesday, September 3 -- and the cost is only $149. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed information about how to dial in. A day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with the presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate. |
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About the presenters: Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. With a membership of more than 1,150 institutions, AAC&U is the leading national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate liberal education. Under Schneider's leadership, AAC&U has also expanded its work on diversity, launched several new projects on civic engagement and the disciplines, and deepened its capacity to support campuses working on educational change. Schneider is a magna cum laude graduate and current member of the board of trustees of Mount Holyoke College, where she received the bachelor's degree in history. She studied at the University of London's Institute for Historical Research and earned a Ph.D. in early modern history from Harvard University. She has received honorary degrees from Towson University, Wagner College, Westminster College (Utah), Prince George's Community College, and the College of Wooster. About Inside Higher Ed: |