January 29, 2007
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced that Rollins College is one of 18 institutions chosen to participate in the Core Commitments Leadership Consortium. These schools will lead the first phase of a national initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility. The initiative seeks to embed personal and social responsibility objectives pervasively across the institution in both the curricular and co-curricular experiences as key educational outcomes for all students.
"It's a great honor for Rollins to be among the 18 colleges and universities chosen to participate in this project," said Interim Dean of the Faculty Hoyt Edge. "Being a part of the Leadership Consortium gives us a platform to disseminate nationally the curricular models that we develop during this process. Rollins can continue to be recognized as a leader in the practical liberal arts."
The participating institutions were selected both on the basis of work already accomplished in the spirit of Core Commitments and on an articulated plan to deepen and extend that work on campus. Selected as Leadership Consortium of Core Commitments were:
Babson College, MA
Bowling Green State University, OH
California State University-Northridge, CA
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Miami University, OH
Michigan State University, MI
Middlesex Community College, MA
Oakland Community College, MI
Rollins College, FL Saint Mary's College of California, CA
St. Lawrence University, NY
Tulane University, LA
United States Air Force Academy, CO
University of Alabama Birmingham, AL
University of Central Florida, FL
University of the Pacific, CA
Wagner College, NY
Winthrop University, SC
Each Consortium school receives a $25,000 award and has committed $25,000 in institutional matching funds over two years to provide students with purposeful and progressively challenging educational experiences leading to the targeted outcomes of the Core Commitments initiative. As part of their plans, campus leadership teams will administer a new Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Inventory to students, faculty, student affairs administrators and academic administrators to measure the impact of existing campus efforts. The results will be used to shape future work at each institution and across the consortium. For more information on the initiative, please visit www.aacu.org/core_commitments.
