Summer Institutes
AAC&U Summer Institutes offer campus teams a time and place for sustained collaborative work on a project of importance to their campus. Our three annual institutes include the Institute on General Education and Assessment; the Engaging Departments Institute; and the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, which is the “next generation” of the former Greater Expectations Institute. A description of each is below, with additional information available on those Institutes’ Web pages.
AAC&U occasionally sponsors project-based summer institutes. Information about those institutes will be posted when applicable.
2011 SUMMER INSTITUTES
Institute on General Education and Assessment
June 4-8, 2011
San Jose State University, California
About the Institute
The Institute on General Education and Assessment provides campus teams of faculty and administrators with opportunities to refine and substantially advance campus projects on general education and its assessment. Through exploration of general education models; processes for redesigning general education courses, programs, and requirements; and successful implementation strategies, the Institute on General Education and Assessment facilitates the building of a campus learning culture based upon clear goals, intentional curricula and co-curricula, powerful instruction, and assessments to improve learning.
Who Should Attend
The Institute on General Education and Assessment is designed for any campus, system, or group of campuses engaged in redesigning general education for students. Campuses can be at any stage in the process of rethinking general education approaches and issues emerging from their respective needs and circumstances. Campus teams typically include a senior academic officer and faculty members working on general education committees or teaching general education courses.
Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success
June 14-18, 2011
The University of Vermont
About the Institute
The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success—formerly the Greater Expectations Institute—is designed to help campuses develop high-impact practices, activities, and strategies that are engaging to students and effective at improving both persistence and essential learning outcomes, with particular benefit to students historically underserved by higher education. The curriculum is built on the latest research on practices that work for all students and offers innovative models of campus implementation and methods to document the progress of all students. It provides leadership development for campuses and state or state-system collaboratives dedicated to shared work for all students’ success.
Who Should Attend
The Institute is designed for both campus practitioners and institutional leaders, addressing the challenge of leading change efforts in an era of austerity. The Institute will be of particular interest to campus-wide or cross-functional teams that connect programs or sectors such as student affairs and academic affairs; state and state-system collaborative teams; and teams addressing institution-wide change for student success.
Engaging Departments Institute
July 13-17, 2011
The Hotel at Turf Valley, Ellicott City, Maryland
About the Institute
The Engaging Departments Institute is designed with the understanding that faculty members typically identify strongly with their discipline, department, or program, and that students typically engage in their most complex and sophisticated academic work in their majors. The Institute helps campus teams move from academic “homes” toward a more intentional collaboration among departments, as well as toward effective educational leadership, in order to achieve discipline-specific program and institution-wide learning outcomes for all students.
Who Should Attend
The Engaging Departments Institute is intended for campus teams of deans, department chairs, and faculty members working to create more intentional student learning within major programs and in relation to other curricular components. The Institute will be of particular interest to campus leaders concerned with assessing student achievement of departmental, programmatic, and institutional goals and outcomes, and those interested in cultivating institution-wide educational planning and diminishing the negative impact of academic silos.
PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes for STEM Faculty
July 12-17, 2011 and July 19-24
Baca Campus of Colorado College, Crestone, Colorado
About the Institute
The PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes for STEM Faculty are five-day intensive institutes that provide faculty participants with the theory and practice required to act as agents of change in their home institutions or professional societies. This year is the 13th summer PKAL has run the Summer Leadership Institutes. Each institute will consist of up to twenty-five participants and ten mentors who are leaders in STEM education. The Summer Leadership Institutes are designed around a carefully coordinated blend of theory and practice, weaving discussions of issues of national import with experiences about the politics of change together with time for conversations and reflections with mentors. Institute mentors play a key role in guiding the conversations, as they bring to the table first-hand experience in leadership in institutional change at the local and national levels. The institute utilizes a variety of approaches that include case-studies, role-playing, field trips and collaborative problem-solving exercises. Experiential learning is a significant part of the institute. Mentors will work with participants during the institute in shaping a personal agenda for leadership and action, continuing to serve as mentors during the year following the institute.
Who Should Attend
The PKAL Summer Leadership Institute is designed for early- and mid-career STEM faculty engaged in leading projects aimed at transforming undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms, departments and institutions.
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