AAC&U: 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 September 15 for reduced 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.

We invite you to join us in Long Beach and to share this information with your colleagues.
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

Pathways to Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement: What the Nation Needs from Higher Education
Larry Braskamp, President, Global Perspectives, Inc. (GPI); Donald W. Harward, Director, Bringing Theory to Practice and Former President, Bates College; and Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, AAC&U
This panel discussion will offer findings from a national report, Reversing the Civic Recession, produced for the US Department of Education by AAC&U in partnership with GPI. The panel will focus specifically on the emerging frontiers of civic learning revealed in next generation campus practices and point to the kind of institutional investment in educating for democracy and civic responsibility needed to make such learning expected of every college student.

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

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New Orleans, LA—February 23-25, 2012
Student Success: Pushing Boundaries, Raising Bars
Seattle, Washington— March 22-24, 2012