AAC&U Working Conferences
General Education and Assessment 3.0: Next-Level Practices Now
March 3-5, 2011
Chicago, Illinois

Call for Proposals Deadline: June 30, 2010

General Education and Assessment 3.0: Next-Level Practices Now will help campus leaders focus on innovative and purposeful approaches to designing and financing general education and assessment. Proposals are invited for conference sessions highlighting “next-level” models and practices in general education and assessment that strengthen student learning of essential outcomes.

The audience for the 2011 conference includes newcomers to, and veterans of, innovative general education reform and assessments that deepen learning. Faculty, student affairs educators, administrators, students, and others are invited to shape a national dialogue about the value of general education and to demonstrate its impact on student learning in the college years.

Four thematic tracks make up the conference:

• General Education Models that Make a Difference  

• Faculty Engagement in General Education   

• Assessment to Document Achievement and Deepen Learning at Multiple Levels   

• Institutional Leadership and Capacity for Learning-Centered Reform

Learn more about this conference and the call for proposals online.

For more information, please call 202-387-3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

We look forward to reading your proposals.

Creativity, Inquiry, and Discovery: Undergraduate Research In and Across the Disciplines
November 11-13, 2010
Durham, North Carolina

Call for Proposals Deadline: April 8, 2010

Creativity, Inquiry, and Discovery: Undergraduate Research In and Across the Disciplines, will showcase promising models of undergraduate research. The conference will also help participants address issues related to the sustainability and evolution of this veteran practice—including aligning undergraduate research with broader student learning goals; integrating research preparation and practice into departmental curricula, courses, and capstone requirements; assessing students’ undergraduate research to see if they have achieved essential learning outcomes; supporting faculty innovation and leadership for these efforts; institutionalizing undergraduate research in and across the disciplines; strengthening offices of undergraduate research; and broadening participation in undergraduate research, especially among underserved students.

Four thematic tracks make up the conference:

• Defining and Assessing Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice

• Faculty Roles and Rewards

• Mapping Research Preparation and Practice In and Across the Disciplines

• Implementing, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Programs Across Institutions

We look forward to reading your proposals.

Call for Papers: Exploring More Signature Pedagogies

Proposals due March 15

We are seeking proposals for chapters in follow-up to Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind (Stylus, 2009), under contract with Stylus Publishing. Each chapter should briefly introduce a discipline, provide a brief literature review of the scholarship of teaching and learning (or the lack thereof) in the discipline, describe and evaluate the discipline’s traditional pedagogies and practices, and articulate elements of existing or potential signature pedagogies.  Each chapter will also be grounded in strong literature reviews and written in a lucid, engaging style. 

Exploring Signature Pedagogies included chapters on history, literary studies, creative writing, music, visual and performing arts, geography, human development, psychology, sociology, agriculture, biology, computer science, mathematics, and physics.  For this “sequel,” we are looking for considerations of other disciplines, inter-disciplines, and professions, such as the following: