Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility:
A Twenty-First-Century Imperative
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 13-15, 2011
Westin Long Beach, California
Overview
The focus of the conference will be on innovative and practical approaches to educating for personal and social responsibility, particularly approaches reflecting academic and student affairs collaboration, campus-community partnerships, and global contexts. The conference also invites proposals describing ways in which campuses have effectively addressed challenges, including assessing personal and social responsibility, scaling up programs, and building supportive institutional policies and structures to sustain progress.
The conference will focus on four major themes:
-Refining and Assessing Essential Personal and Social Responsibility Outcomes
-Innovative Models and Pedagogies—Helping Students Build Principled and Purposeful Lives
-What the Research Reveals about Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
-Weaving Personal and Social Responsibility Into the Fabric of Institutions
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
To register, please visit: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/psr11/registration.cfm
The student registration rate is $75.
For the full conference program, please see below.
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