Wallace State Community College Among 122 Campuses Selected to Attend AAC&U Summer Institutes

AAC& U Contact: Debra Humphreys, Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs, 202.387.3760, ext. 422, Humphreys@aacu.org
Wallace State Contact: Kristen Holmes, Director, Communications & Marketing, 256-352-8118 direct 256-339-2519 cell, Kristen.holmes@wallacestate.edu
 
Participants Will Work to Redesign and Develop Assessment Plans for General Education Programs, Develop and Expand High-Impact Educational Practices, and Advance Integrative and Engaged Learning In and Across the Disciplines
Washington, DC—The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recently announced the colleges, community colleges, universities, and state systems sending teams to its regularly scheduled 2013 summer institutes. Teams of five or more from each institution will attend these summer institutes, beginning this weekend: the Institute on General Education and Assessment at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont (June 1–5, 2013); the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin (June 11–14, 2013); and the Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon (July 10–14, 2013).
Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala. has been selected for participation in both the Institute on General Education and Assessment and the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success.
“The 2013 AAC&U summer institutes will bring together teams to focus on exactly how institutions can ensure that all students achieve liberal education outcomes that are so essential for success in the twenty-first century,” said AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider. “The teams will work together to advance implementation of high-impact educational practices, integrative curricula, and faculty leadership for liberal education and its assessment.”
All AAC&U institutes offer campus teams a time and place for sustained collaborative work on a project of importance to their campus along with a curriculum focused on important trends, research and best practices, and a resident faculty of educational experts.
For twenty-three years, AAC&U’s Institute on General Education and Assessment (IGEA) has provided campus teams with opportunities to refine and advance general education programs and their assessment. The Institute focuses on building a campus culture for intentional, well-defined, and meaningfully assessed general education curricula designed for an increasingly diverse student body. As a special feature of this year’s institute and in partnership with Excelencia! in Education, of the 41 participating institutions, five Hispanic-serving institutions will focus during their time at the institute on how to embed, scale, and assess high-impact educational practices specifically designed to advance Latino student success in general education.
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is designed to help campuses and systems develop institution-wide change strategies for the benefit of all students. It seeks to help institutions meet ambitious goals for improving both completion rates and the quality of student learning. Participant teams address barriers to student success and devise integrative plans to strengthen student learning—making intentional use of the LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes and high-impact educational practices. Highlighting the success of students from groups that have historically been underserved, the program supports work to make excellence inclusive. Of the 48 participating institutions, there will be nineteen campus teams at this Institute attending as part of AAC&U’s project, Developing a Community College Student Roadmap. Wallace State was selected earlier this year as one of the members of the Roadmap Project.
The Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments is attended by college and university teams interested in building faculty and departmental leadership for advancement of the LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes in and across departments. This year’s Institute also includes campuses participating in the Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future (PCFF) project. This project focuses on systemic reform in the STEM disciplines, and provides leadership development for women of color STEM faculty at historically black colleges and universities. In addition, this year’s Institute will include campus teams from eight of the liberal arts colleges participating in a new initiative called Faculty Leadership for Integrative Liberal Learning.
AAC&U also will announce soon the faculty and respective institutions participating in the Project Kaleidoscope Summer Leadership Institutes for STEM Faculty. Two PKAL Institutes will be held in July and August on the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado. The PKAL Institutes are designed to prepare early and mid-career STEM faculty for roles as effective agents of change in transforming undergraduate STEM education at the departmental, institutional, and national levels.
 
Institution on General Education and Assessment, Participating Campuses:
Armstrong Atlantic State University (GA)
Ohio Wesleyan University (OH)
Bay Path College (MA)
Palm Beach State College (FL)
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Pepperdine University (CA)
Bronx Community College (NY)
Queens University of Charlotte (NC)
Central Connecticut State University (CT)
St. Catherine University (MN)
Christopher Newport University (VA)
Santa Fe College (FL)
Colorado Mesa University (CO)
Shawnee State University (OH)
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College (NY)
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (NM)
Hendrix College (AR)
The Stella and Charles Guttman Community College (NY)
Humboldt State University (CA)
SUNY College at Brockport (NY)
John Carroll University (OH)
Sweet Briar College (VA)
Johnson State College (VT)
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi (TX)
Lane Community College (OR)
The New Community College at CUNY (NY)
Lasell College (MA)
The University of Texas at Brownsville (TX)
Lewis University (IL)
University of Minnesota–Morris (MN)
Lincoln University (MO)
University of Montevallo (AL)
Manhattanville College (NY)
University of Northern Iowa (IA)
Middlesex Community College (CT)
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus (OK)
Millsaps College (MS)
Wallace State Community College–Hanceville (AL)
Nashua Community College (NH)
Winona State University (MN)
Northern Michigan University (MI)
Worcester State University (MA)
 
Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, Participating Campuses:
Alamo College District Central Office (TX)
New Mexico State University (NM)
Brookdale Community College ( NJ)
North Hennepin Community College (MN)
California State University–Fresno (CA)
Northern Illinois University (IL)
Carthage College (WI)
Northern Kentucky University (KY)
Chattanooga State Community College (TN)
Prince George’s Community College (MD)
CUNY Hostos Community College (NY)
Sacred Heart University (CT)
CUNY Queensborough Community College (NY)
Salt Lake Community College (UT)
College of the Canyons (CA)
Salve Regina University (RI)
Community College of Allegheny County–College Office (PA)
Schreiner University (TX)
The Community College of Baltimore County–Essex (MD)
St. Cloud State University (MN)
Edgewood College (WI)
St. John’s University (NY)
Georgia College (GA)
SUNY at Geneseo (NY)
Georgia Perimeter College (GA)
SUNY College at Brockport (NY)
Kennesaw State University (GA)
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi (TX)
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Texas Tech University (TX)
Lane Community College (OR)
University of Michigan–Flint (MI)
Lindsey Wilson College (KY)
University of Nebraska at Omaha (NE)
Manchester Community College (CT)
University of North Georgia (GA)
Massachusetts Bay Community College (MA)
University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada)
Miami Dade College (FL)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (WI)
Middlesex Community College (MA)
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (WI)
Monroe Community College (NY)
University of Wisconsin System (WI)
Mount Saint Mary College (NY)
Wallace State Community College-Hanceville (AL)
Mount St. Mary’s College (CA)
Whittier College (CA)
 
Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments, Participating Campuses:
Alcorn State University (MS)
North Seattle Community College (WA)
Appalachian State University (NC)
Northern Illinois University (IL)
Bard College (NY)
Pacific University (OR)
Bowie State University (MD)
Park University (MO)
CUNY Queensborough Community College (NY)
Saint Michael’s College (VT)
Clark University (MA)
Skidmore College (NY)
Colgate University (NY)
Southern Oregon University (OR)
College of Southern Maryland (MD)
Southern University at New Orleans (LA)
Dallas County Community College District Office (TX)
St. Lawrence University (NY)
Duke University (NC)
SUNY at Geneseo (NY)
George Mason University (VA)
The American University of Paris (Paris, France)
Hampton University (VA)
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (NJ)
Howard University (DC)
Tougaloo College(MS)
Jackson State University (MS)
University of Central Oklahoma (OK)
Lane College (TN)
University of Colorado Denver (CO)
Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (PA)
Vancouver Island University (British Columbia, Canada)
Marquette University (WI)
Wagner College (NY)
Montana State University (MT)
Wellesley College (MA)
Mount Holyoke College (MA)
Wheaton College (MA)
Nebraska Wesleyan University (NE)
Woodbury University (CA)
Xavier University of Louisiana (LA)
 
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About AAC&U
AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.
Its members are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career. Founded in 1915, AAC&U now comprises nearly 1,300 member institutions—including accredited public and private colleges, community colleges, research universities, and comprehensive universities of every type and size.
AAC&U functions as a catalyst and facilitator, forging links among presidents, administrators, and faculty members who are engaged in institutional and curricular planning. Its mission is to reinforce the collective commitment to liberal education and inclusive excellence at both the national and local levels, and to help individual institutions keep the quality of student learning at the core of their work as they evolve to meet new economic and social challenges.