The 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities Final Program Shared Futures Difficult Choices Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement, and Success January 25-28, 2012 Washington, DC Pre-Meeting Symposium January 25 Reversing a Civic Recession: What Higher Education Can Do E-Portfolio Forum January 28 Held in conjunction with the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Academic Deans “The Deanship: Balancing the Demands of Mission, Democracy and Markets” About the Meeting Today we face a potentially disastrous narrowing of vision in which a college education is valued more for its economic and individual benefits than for its contribution to the public good. The resulting overemphasis on market priorities has crowded out important and long-established civic commitments. Yet, if it is to be of full value in solving complex problems, a twenty-first century liberal education cannot afford to be neutral about democratic knowledge and global engagement. The 2012 Annual Meeting showcases examples from institutions that are successfully building upon democratic visions and practices in complex, global contexts—visions and practices that shape institutional missions, improve undergraduate education, and challenge narrow definitions of success. Your hoStS The Association of American Colleges and Universities The American Conference of Academic Deans www.aacu.org www.acad-edu.org AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, ACAD was established in 1945 as an independent, national, nonprofit orga- vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its mem- nization for academic deans. Over the past few decades, ACAD expanded bers are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all its membership to include all academic administrators. Today, ACAD students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career. Founded members are current and former deans, provosts, academic vice presidents, in 1915, AAC&U now comprises more than 1,200 member institutions— associate and assistant deans, and other academic leaders committed to the including accredited public and private colleges and universities of every ideals of a liberal education. ACAD has chosen to remain a “conference” of type and size. deans reflecting a continuing dedication to its founding purpose: to create both formal and informal opportunities for academic administrators to Through its publications, meetings, public advocacy, and programs, meet, network, and offer professional support to their colleagues in their AAC&U provides a powerful voice for liberal education. AAC&U works to work as academic leaders. reinforce the commitment to liberal education at both the national and the local level and to help individual colleges and universities keep the quality In addition to holding an annual meeting, in recent years ACAD members of student learning at the core of their work as they evolve to meet new have published The Resource Handbook for Academic Deans and collaborat- economic and social challenges. With a nearly one-hundred year history ed with other higher education organizations on projects of mutual interest. and national stature, AAC&U is an influential catalyst for educational More information can be found on our website at www.acad-edu.org. improvement and reform. 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AAC&U thanks our sponsors for their generous support of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting. We invite you stop by their tables in the Independence Foyer and Constitution Foyer. 2 WedneSday, JAnuArY 25 thurSday, JAnuArY 26 5:30–6:45 p.m. 8:00–9:30 p.m. AAC&U’s Members’ Meeting Organizing Meeting: Business Education and Civic Engagement Framing AAC&U’s Strategic Priorities for the Future Lafayette Room Independence DE Following on the Carnegie Foundation’s recent study Rethinking Under- All those attending from AAC&U member institutions are warmly invited graduate Business Education and the related conference session, “Reshap- to the annual Members’ Meeting. The primary focus of the meeting, after ing Business Education: Preparing Students for Society and Democracy” completion of a brief business agenda, will be roundtable dialogues with (Thursday at 4:15 pm), we invite colleagues interested in business education senior AAC&U leaders and board members. As AAC&U prepares our next to meet and discuss ways to collaborate in creating forms of civic engage- strategic plan, we invite member input, in particular, on the broad strategic ment especially suited to the business disciplines. (See page 19.) priority areas that will guide our work to support campus-based educa- tional change over the next five years. Facilitator: Edward Zlotkowski, Professor of English and Media Studies, and Director of the Bentley Service-Learning Center, Bentley University 8:30–10:00 p.m. SAturday, JAnuArY 28 Welcoming Reception 8:15 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Independence A The welcoming reception will be on Wednesday evening, immediately National Summit following the Opening Night Forum. (Please take the escalators or elevator one flight down from Forum.) We particularly welcome AAC&U members Reclaiming Academic Democracy: and colleagues who are new to the Annual Meeting. Facing the Consequences of Contingent Employment in Higher Education Media Coverage of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting Sponsored by the New Faculty Majority Foundation AAC&U’s 2012 Annual Meeting is open to all credentialed mem- AAC&U registrants are welcome to join Saturday morning discussions of bers of the media, identified by their name tag. For members of the the National Summit. Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U; Gary Rhoades, AAC&U community, this means that comments from the floor, or University of Arizona and past-president, AAUP; and Claire Goldstene, made in group discussions, may be considered as “on the record” unless American University, will speak 8:15 to 9:15 am; Adrianna Kezar, Univer- requested otherwise. Participants and speakers are welcome to ask if sity of Southern California, will speak at 9:30 am. More information is on media are present at a particular session or discussion. Page 32. Friends improvement. 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TaskStream provides the highest- quality Web-based software and supporting services to manage assessment and accreditation processes, facilitate the demon- stration of learning achievement, and foster continuous educational 3 Wednesday January 25 pre-Meeting SympoSiuM Reversing a Civic Recession: What Higher Education Can Do “The first and most essential charge upon higher education is that at all levels and in all fields of specialization, it shall be the carrier of democratic values, ideals, and processes.” — The Truman Commission, Higher Education for American Democracy, 1947 “We can emerge from this civic recession, but to do so will require a full-scale national investment from every level of government and every sector of society to ensure that our citizens understand their government and participate fully in it.” — Charles N. Quigley, “Statement on the Nation’s Report Card: NAEP 2010 Civics,” 2011 In response to widespread concern about the nation’s anemic civic health and the learning needed for a global century inflected with contention and 8:30–10:00 a.m. interdependency, a newly released civic report, A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future, calls for investing in higher education’s Constitution B capacity to help renew our nation’s social, intellectual, and civic capital. The report calls on higher education and many partners in education, govern- Welcome ment, and public life to advance a 21st century conception of civic learning and democratic engagement as an expected part of every student’s college Carol Geary Schneider, President,