Statements & Presentations

Retirement Announcement to AAC&U Membership (April 22, 2015)

Presentations (Selected)

• Presentation to the Annapolis Group of College Presidents (June, 2019)
  • Liberal Education’s Next Frontier: Preparing Students to Apply Their Cross-Disciplinary Liberal Learning (Excerpts from Handout)
• Presentation at CAEL Conference “The New Priorities for Quality Learning” (November 2017)
  • New Directions in Quality Learning:  Positioning Adult Learning at the Head of the Curve
• Presentation at the Yale-NUS College “Globalizing the Liberal Arts Symposium” (June 2016)
  • Liberal Education for a World Lived in Common
• Presentation at AAC&U’s Institute on General Education and Assessment (June 2016)
  • General Education for the 21st Century:  Mapping the Pathways; Supporting Students’ Signature Work
• Presentation at the University of Michigan’s “The Future of Diversity Research–A Diversity Scholars Network Conference” (May 2016)
  • Making Excellence Inclusive:  Scholarly Inquiry and Student Accomplishment
• Presentation at the Higher Learning Commission (April 2016)
  • Liberal Education and the New Frontiers of Quality Assurance
• Presentation to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (December 2015)
  • A 21st Century Framework for Quality College Learning Already Exists: Our Challenge is to Connect Aspirations with Practice and Demonstrated Achievement
• “Moving Democratic Learning from the Margins to the Core”
  Remarks Delivered at the White House (January 2012)
• “The Quality Challenges are Mounting: Is Higher Education Ready to Lead?” – Presentation to the Higher Learning Commission (April 2011)
  • PowerPoint slides
• “The Baccalaureate Degree: Meaning, Integrity, and Quality” – Presentation to the Southern Association of Colleges & Universities Commission on Colleges Annual Meeting (December 2009)
  • PowerPoint slides
  • Handouts (pdf)
• “Organizing Assessment to Foster Students’ Best Work” – Presentation to the Council for the Advancement of Standards National Symposium (November 2009)
  • PowerPoint slides
  • Handouts (pdf)
• Carol Geary Schneider’s presentation for the Inside HigherEd teleconference, “Liberal Education for Everyone—Transforming Professional and Liberal Arts Programs” (September 2008)
• Graduation Address, The College of Wooster (May 2006)

Policy Statements

• Message from Carol Geary Schneider to the AAC&U Community June 30, 2016
• Without Diversity, Equity, and Engagement, There Is No True Educational Excellence June 23, 2016
• Policy Priorities for Accreditation Put Quality College Learning at Risk: A Message from AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider December 2, 2015
• A Message from Carol Geary Schneider on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence November 12, 2015
• AAC&U President Comments on Release of US Department of Education College Scorecard (September 12, 2015)
• Comments on Competency-Based Education and Lessons Learned from LEAP and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) (August 17, 2015)
• Statement on United States Department of Education Announcement of New Direction for Proposed Ratings System (June 25, 2015)
• Comments on Senate HELP Committee Paper, “Higher Education Accreditation: Concepts and Proposals” (April 24, 2015)
• If Competency is the Goal, the Proof is in the Portfolio(October, 2013)
• Memo to AAC&U Members on the Indispensable Liberal Arts and Sciences (August 2013)
• Written Testimony on College Completion and Quality(May, 2011)
• “The Three-Year Degree is No Silver Bullet” (June 2010)