Welcome to the LEAP Blog
This is the first posting to a new multi-authored blog launched by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as part of its national initiative, Liberal Education and America’s Promise...
View ArticleWhat Gets Measured vs. What Gets Valued
Taken out of context—that is, considered within a contemporary American context—Alan Bennett’s play (and, later, movie) The History Boys can be read as satirizing the values of the standardized testing...
View ArticleThe Proof Is in the Portfolio
In an Inside Higher Ed essay, colleagues who developed the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) attacked both the concept of e-portfolios as a strategy for assessing students’ learning gains and my own...
View ArticleWired Names the Neoliberal Arts—And They Look a Lot Like AAC&U’s Essential...
Those who know well the work of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)—an organization that has existed for nearly one hundred years—will probably be surprised that AAC&U...
View ArticleThe Future of Medicine and Business Depend on Liberal Education: Why Don’t...
I recently read yet two more calls for more liberal education outcomes for today’s college students—this time, the calls focused on what is needed to effectively educate future doctors and business...
View ArticleSignificant Discussions for School-to-College Alignment
A few weeks ago, I began exploring school-to-college alignment in a new series of blog postings. What does purposeful work on school-to-college alignment mean and what can it do for student learning?...
View ArticleReflections of an Adjunct Professor on Inclusive Excellence
This blog post is part of AAC&U’s blog series on Making Excellence Inclusive. I am an adjunct faculty member who teaches sociology courses on gender and sexuality. Both of these topics speak...
View ArticleHigh-Impact Classroom Practice at Cosumnes River College
A conversation with Robert (BJ) Snowden, professor of radio and digital media at Cosumnes River College, in Sacramento, CA, introduced me to how he is incorporating “high-impact practice” (HIPs) into...
View ArticleLooking for Liberal Learning in Unexpected Places
The California Acceleration Project is generating new promise for setting up pre-collegiate learners for success through programs in community colleges. It’s also forging potential for advancing...
View ArticleWhat If the VSA Morphed Into the VST?
By Dr. George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University–Bloomington, and Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) Good on Doug Lederman at Inside Higher...
View ArticleTeacher Education and LEAP: Engaging Students in Leadership
A visit to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UW-W) brought me back to an idea from my first LEAP blog post: LEAP frameworks can support connections between school and college. Now, as we all...
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