American Academy for Liberal Education: Charter Events

Events

Current Events

September 22-23, 2005	AALE Charter School Program is proud to announce the first ever "No Frills" Charter School Conference for member schools and interested parties. The conference will take place in Tucson, AZ and will include a showcase of AALE's five member schools that are in the Tucson area. Please email aalecharters@aale.org for more information.
June 2-4, 2005	Of interest: "Teaching Islam in the Undergraduate Curriculum," an Asheville Institute 2005 event, to be held June 2-4 at The University of North Carolina at Asheville . The event is a forum for sharing questions, ideas, and experiences. For further information and registration, please see the event's website.
May 1-3, 2005	Sarah Cunningham, Director of Charter School Accreditation & Education Assessment will speak at Pennsylvania's Charter School Association annual meeting in Harrisburg, PA
Past Events
April 17-19, 2005	Sarah Cunningham, Director of Charter School Accreditation & Education Assessment, spoke along with school leader, Wilson Willard of W.E.B. Dubois Academy, at the Ohio Charter School Association annual meeting in Columbus, OH.
April 7-10, 2005	Of interest: The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Eleventh Annual Conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Theme: "Contemplation, Crisis, Construct: Appropriating Core Texts in the Curriculum." For further information, please see ACTC's website.
January 26-29, 2005	AALE President Jeffrey D. Wallin speaks at Association of American Higher Education (AAC&U) "Liberal Education and the New Academy: Raising Expectations, Keeping Promises," in San Francisco, CA.
November 30-December 1, 2004	AALE Charter School Accreditation Program partnered with the 2004 National Summit on Charter School Innovations, Show Me The Money, Show Me The Measures, presented by The Performance Institute of Washington DC. Director Sarah Cunningham and Program Officer Meghan Cotter presented on accreditation as a form of accountability to parents, the community and institutions of higher education.
April 18, 2003	AALE and the Brookings Institution co-host a roundtable discussion for liberal arts college leaders and Washington policymakers on "The Coming Accountability Revolution: Staying Ahead of the Curve" at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
December 12, 2002	AALE Director of Accreditation Francis DuVinage speaks on "Liberal Education and General Education in a Global Context" at the 10th Anniversary Workshop of the Business-University Forum of Japan
April 20-21, 2001	"Workshop on Accreditation through Student Learning Assessment," for AALE faculty fellows and their college presidents, sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in Washington, DC. The meeting was highlighted by speeches from former Assistant Secretary of Post-Secondary Education Lee Fritschler and from Timothy Fuller, recently Acting President at Colorado College (read Dr. Fuller's speech).
October 18-22, 2000	AALE presentation New Methods of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment at the National Collegiate Honors Council's 35th Annual Conference, held in Washington D.C.
August 4, 2000	AALE presentation on Accrediting General Education in Distance Learning Bachelor's Degree Programs, at the 16th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison Wisconsin. Paper by Prof. John Baker and Prof. George Lucas. Presentation and information session conducted by AALE Associate Director Dr. Francis DuVinage.
June 23, 2000	AALE Executive Director Michael Poliakoff speaks on "Accreditation Review and Academic Audit: A Fresh Approach or More of the Same?" at CHEA 2000: Enhancing Usefulness Conference IV, held in Washington, DC.
June 14-15, 2000	AALE Research and Policy Analyst Tom Suh and AALE Consultant Dale Larson make a presentation on AALE Key Performance Indicators at a conference of the Data Elements Task Force of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), held in Oakland, California.
May 16, 2000	AALE Hosts Accreditation Based on Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes, a conference with regional accreditors, Washington, D.C. Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
March 13, 2000	Remarks to the Associated Colleges of the Midwest by AALE President Jeffrey Wallin
November 13, 1999	Liberal Education Curricula: Advantages of Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Programs - summary of a debate between Peter Kalkavage of St. John's College in Annapolis and Glen Thurow of the University of Dallas. The full text of both speeches is also available.
November 13, 1999	Jacques Barzun Award Dinner. The second presentation of the Barzun Award, this year honoring William C. Friday, former president of the University of North Carolina.
July 1999	State of Virginia Adopts AALE Education Standards, Press Release
December 10, 1998	Keynote Remarks to the Virginia Governor's Commission on Higher Education, by AALE President Jeffrey Wallin
May 25, 1998	Keynote Remarks to the American Academy for Liberal Education, by W. R. Connor, Director, The National Humanities Center
May 19-20, 1998	Quality Assurance Conference, Kenan Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
November 8, 1997	Jacques Barzun Award Dinner. The first Barzun Award, presented to Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Emeritus Professor of History, Yale University. A downloadable (PDF) version of his acceptance lecture, entitled "Pernicious Amnesia: Combating the Epidemic," is available.

Past Events