Press Releases
Recent Releases:
February 23, 2010 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Announces Seven New Directors and New Slate of Officers for Board of Directors
January 20, 2010 -- Employers Seek More College-Educated Workers With Higher Levels of Learning and Broader Sets of Skills, New Survey Reveals
January 12, 2010 -- Nine Graduate Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
January 8, 2010 -- Media Alert - Maintaining Quality in Undergraduate Education: Educational Leaders To Share Strategies and Debate Key Issues in College Teaching and Learning at AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 5, 2010 -- Media Alert: Employers Need More College Educated Workers and Demand Higher Levels of Learning, New Survey Reveals
December 14, 2009 -- State Farm Insurance Executive Vice President Deborah Traskell Named as New Cochair of Leadership Council Guiding AAC&U National Initiative
November 20, 2009 -- College, Community College, and University Presidents Form "Presidents' Trust" to Advance Liberal Education as Source of American Civic Vitality and Economic Innovation and Growth
October 30, 2009 -- Utah Colleges and Universities Join Forces to Accelerate Improvements in Student Learning Outcomes and Meet Needs of Changing Global Economy
September 30, 2009 -- New Data on How Campuses Educate Students for Civic Engagement from Association of American Colleges and Universities
September 8, 2009 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Announces Dr. Susan Elrod as New Director of Project Kaleidoscope
July 20, 2009 - Association of American Colleges and Universities Receives Grant from the John Templeton Foundation to Continue Work of National Initiative on Personal and Social Responsibility
June 11, 2009 -- AAC&U Challenges America to "do school differently" to Improve Math and Science Achievement for All Students
June 11, 2009 -- New AAC&U Report on Women's Progress in Higher Education Honored by National Council for Research on Women with the 2009 Research and Scholarship Award
May 21, 2009 -- 78 Campuses Selected to Attend AAC&U Summer Institutes on General Education Reform; Making Excellence Inclusive; and Engaging Departments with Learning Outcomes and Assessment
May 15, 2009 -- New Survey Finds Colleges Moving Away From Pure "Cafeteria-Style" General Education Requirements, with only 15 Percent Now Using Distribution Requirements Alone
April 28, 2009 -- Nearly 80% of Colleges Now Have A Broad Set of Learning Outcomes for All Students and more than 70% Now Assess Outcomes Across The Curriculum Beyond The Use of Course Grades
April 2, 2009 -- New Recommendations Encourage Development of Undergraduate Courses in Public Health; Campus Events Planned for Public Health Week, April 6-12
February 3, 2009 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Announces Six New Directors and New Slate of Officers for Board of Directors
January 22, 2009 -- AAC&U Presents 2009 Frederic W. Ness Book Award to Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting The Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks
January 22, 2009 -- New Data on Women in Higher Education Released by Program on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW)
January 21, 2009 -- Will New College Graduates Be Ready to Compete and Help Solve the Nation's Big Problems? Are Colleges Ready to Face The Challenges of Educating a New Generation in Tough Times?
January 7, 2009 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Calls for Campuses to Articulate and Assess Broad Set of College Learning Outcomes at the Highest Levels of Achievement
January 5, 2009 -- Ten Graduate Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
December 19, 2008 -- Nine Universities in California, Wisconsin, and Oregon to Pilot New Ways to "Give Students a Compass" for College Learning
December 4, 2008 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Receives Grant from Lumina Foundation for Education to Expand Its Work On "Making Excellence Inclusive"
December 3, 2008 -- New Summer Institute for Deans, Department Chairs and Faculty Will Assist Campuses in Connecting Departmental Goals with Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes for All Students
November 6, 2008 -- Project Kaleidoscope and the Association of American Colleges and Universities Announce New Partnership To Improve Undergraduate Science Achievement for All Students
October 6, 2008 -- High-Impact Educational Practices Reaching Too Few College Students, New Research Shows
June 30, 2008 -- Improving State-wide General Education Outcomes and Underserved Student Success Is Goal of New AAC&U Initiative
June 13, 2008 -- 44 Colleges and Universities Send Faculty to Civic Seminar Co-Sponsored by AAC&U and the Aspen Institute
June 3, 2008 -- AAC&U Appoints Public Health Expert Marian Osterweis as New Senior Fellow
May 28, 2008 -- Fred Winter Appointed Senior Director of Advancement and Leadership Development at Association of American Colleges and Universities
May 1, 2008 -- 99 Campuses Selected to Attend Institutes on General Education; Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement; and Citizenship and Public Health
May 1, 2008 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Public Health Initiative Launches New Research Effort With Grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
April 17, 2008 -- College Students and Faculty Call for Greater Focus on Personal and Social Responsibility
April 3, 2008 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Appoints Susan Albertine To Newly Created Position as Senior Director for LEAP State Initiatives
February 19, 2008 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Presents 2008 Frederic W. Ness Book Award to Our Underachieving Colleges by Derek Bok
February 11, 2008 -- Association of American Colleges and Universities Announces Seven New Directors and New Slate of Officers for Board of Directors
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