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George Mehaffy ADP Radio Interviews (a sample in MP3)
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News at noon (pdf)

Snowbird July 2006 Post-Meeting Resources
Evidence and Accountability

William Harvey, the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity at the University of Virginia, presents a thought provoking comparison of the rate of change of diversity and the rate of change in the adoption of technology in American higher education. He urges institutions to begin holding staff and faculty accountable for the diversity profile of the curriculum, student body and the faculty.
AUDIO: William Harvey (mp3)
Powerpoint: The Impact of Technology and Diversity (136 k)

Lee Shulman, the President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, speaks about the coming federal mandate for higher education accountability as an opportunity that should be grabbled and run with. He addresses the idea that we must build a culture of evidence and then monitor the work of the institution against multiple outcome measures or risk having governmental policy makers imposes simplistic measures on us.
Lee Shulman (mp3)

Roger Benjamin is president of the Council for Aid to Education (N.Y.) and a senior research analyst at RAND. His Council has developed the Collegiate Learning Assessment as a non-high stakes approach to understanding what value institutions add to student learning and who those results can help institutions guide critical reallocation decision. While acknowledging the limitations of existing accountability measures he argues that we can measure some important things perfectly well and that there needs to be a rebalancing of content with higher order skill in the curriculum.
Roger Benjamin (mp3)

Panel Presentation (mp3)
A panel consisting of Michael F. Middaugh, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Research and Planning, University of Delaware, Elizabeth H. Sibolski, Senior Executive Associate Director, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Jillian L. Kinzie, Associate Director, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute, Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University and Kichoon Yang, Provost, Northwest Missouri State University.

Jillian Kinzie provides A National Perspective ( Powerpoint 1.7 mb) on how we should be using data. Elizabeth Sibolski – outlines the interest of accreditation agencies in the use and understanding of data. Michael Middaugh speaks to what chief academic officers should expect of their institutional research office and Kichoon Yang addresses how to keep track and make use of data by creating an Academic Dashboard (Powerpoint 132k)including indicators for institutional leaders based on Microsoft Excel and Access.

National Meeting Plenary Documents August 2004

The presentation is a discussion of what the American Democracy Project (ADP) is, why public institutions need to care about it, and a description of the design, accomplishments and plans for the ADP.
National American Democracy Project Update (952 KB).ppt
George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change

This presentation is focused on the possibility and acceptability of faculty engagement in service learning including a number of ‘how-to’ and operational considerations.
The Scholarship of Civic Engagement (100 KB).ppt
Robert G. Bringle, Director of the Center for Service and Learning, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

This is a three page call to seriously consider the need to foster intellectual diversity and difference of opinion on college campuses.
Political Bias (36 KB).doc by Ehrlich and Colby

The file is a description of public television programming and outreach associated with the By The People project and includes a state-by-state listing of By The People projects and initiatives.
Reaching Beyond the Campus (212 KB).doc
Gail M. Leftwich, Executive Director, By the People, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

This PowerPoint is a review of what is know about student civic engagement, approaches to the study of engagement and the impact of service learning.
Research on Assessment of Civic Engagement (564 KB).ppt
Linda Sax, Director, Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), University of California, Los Angeles

This file is a set of images that document the worldwide activities of the Public Achievement project.
Public Achievement (3.5 MB).ppt
Dennis Donovan, National Organizer for Public Achievement, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

This is an explanation of the elements, concepts and models around which the Public Achievement project is organized and also includes a guide to implementing Public Achievement activities on a campus.
Public Achievement (80 KB).doc
Dennis Donovan, National Organizer for Public Achievement, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Dean Adam Wineburg led a year-long consideration of what Colgate University should do regarding civic education. In his speech to the American Democracy Project he expanded that experience into a set of recommendations and considerations for all of American higher education. He argues that there is a difference between an engaged campus and one that actively teaches civic education, that we must move beyond values to the skills and habits of active engagement in a democratic society, and that democracy must be understood as something we are responsible for producing. He promotes the end of the bifurcation of academic and student affairs with respect to civic education recommending a harmonized and mutually undertaking responsibility to take advantage of every teachable moment.
Civic Engagement: A Campus-Wide Commitment (92 KB).doc
Adam S. Weinberg, Dean of the College, Colgate University

Assessment

Campus Audit

Conversation

Images (ADP logo)

Newsletters & Communications

Reflections

Research on Engagement

Resources