A conference about educating for social responsibility

Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility:
A Twenty-First-Century Imperative
October 13-15, 2011
Westin Long Beach, California
Register by August 25 for best conference rates

Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: A Twenty-First-Century Imperative will highlight campus examples of best practices and bring together faculty, student affairs educators, academic administrators, and others who are working to foster students’ personal and social responsibility—including ethical reasoning and judgment, personal and academic integrity, civic and democratic engagement, global understanding, and perspective-taking and intercultural competency.

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Conference Highlights

Religion, Identity, and Civic Responsibility: Cultivating Common Commitments
Eboo Patel, Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core

Research on Personal and Social Responsibility: What Makes a Difference?
Sylvia Hurtado, Professor and Director, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles; Charles Blaich, Director, Center of Inquiry at Wabash College; and Robert Reason, Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Mapping Pathways to Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement: A National Initiative
Discussion Facilitator: Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, AAC&U
This panel discussion will provide snapshots of innovative approaches to investing in civic learning and hands-on democracy-building across multiple levels of learning emanating from AAC&U’s partnership with Global Perspective Institute, Inc., and the national dialogue with stakeholders that was orchestrated in 2011.

Education for Democracy, Civic Leadership, and Public Work
Brian Murphy, President, De Anza College

Learn more about this conference online.

For more information, please call 202.387.3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

2011-2012 Network for Academic Renewal Conferences

Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: A Twenty-First-Century Imperative
Long Beach, California—October 13-15, 2011

Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State?
Providence, Rhode Island—November 3-5, 2011

General Education and Assessment: New Contexts, New Cultures
New Orleans, LA—February 23-25, 2012
Student Success: Pushing Boundaries, Raising Bars
Seattle, Washington— March 22-24, 2012

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