For Students: What Is a Liberal Education? And Why Is It Important to My Future?
This brochure serves as an introduction to what a liberal education is—and why it is important to all college students. It is based on research findings from the LEAP initiative and was developed with...
View ArticleCommunicating Commitment to Liberal Education: A Self-Study Guide for...
Author: AAC&U LEAP Initiative This handbook, offered as a free PDF, includes a set of questions designed for campus dialogues that cut across campus divisions and departments. It is designed to...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Liberal Education: Responding to Challenges
By Debra Humphreys, AAC&U This publication, available as a free PDF, draws on findings from AAC&U-sponsored public opinion research conducted in 2005 and 2006. It presents a set of common...
View ArticleLEAP Public Opinion Research: Employers’ Views on Higher Learning
AAC&U regularly commissions and analyzes research studies that explore public attitudes toward liberal education. Findings reveal which elements of a twenty-first-century undergraduate education...
View ArticlePurposeful Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Key Learning Outcomes
Authors: Andrea Leskes and Ross Miller, AAC&U This excerpt from an AAC&U monograph focuses on strategies for developing learning outcomes through intentional curricular design and integrated...
View Article“Your World, Your LEEP” at Clark University
“Liberal Education & Effective Practice” (LEEP) at Clark University is an excellent example of a well-communicated institution-wide framework for learning. LEEP encompasses Clark’s student learning...
View ArticleWhy a Liberal Education Matters for Life and Work
Author: Ashley Finley, Association of American Colleges and Universities This set of slides presents qualitative and quantitative data to help make the case for a liberal education. Drawing on employer...
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What is Liberal Education?
Liberal Education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge of the wider world...
View ArticleThe Learning Community at Cal State Monterey Bay
Author: The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at CSUMB This document is a recent campus publication created by faculty and staff at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). It is...
View ArticleLiberal Education and the Pierce Promise
Author: Franklin Pierce University In 2012, Franklin Pierce University, a small, private, rural New England university unveiled their curricular redesign. Based on AAC&U’s Liberal Education and...
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