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    This blog is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as part of its signature initiative, Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP): Excellence for Everyone as a Nation Goes to College. It features postings and perspectives on "liberal education" - how it is changing, why it is so important in today's world, and what people are saying about it around the country and the world.

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  • Contributing Editor

    Debra Humphreys
    Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs

    Guest Contributors

    Susan Albertine
    Vice President for Engagement, Inclusion and Success, AAC&U
    Chad Anderson
    Program Associate, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, AAC&U
    Helen Chen
    Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
    Rick Davis
    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, George Mason University
    Rebecca Dolinsky
    Troy Duster
    Silver Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University
    Ashley Finley
    Director of Assessment for Learning, AAC&U
    Kevin Hovland
    Director of Global Learning and Curricular Change, AAC&U
    George D. Kuh
    Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
    Tia Brown McNair
    Senior Director for Student Success, AAC&U
    Caryn McTighe Musil
    Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, AAC&U
    Nancy O'Neill
    Nancy O'Neill
    Director of Programs, Office of Education and Institutional Renewal, AAC&U
    Carol Geary Schneider
    President, AAC&U
    David Tritelli
    Editor, Liberal Education

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