"College Learning for the New Global Century, published through the LEAP (Liberal Education and America's Promise) initiative, spells out the essential aims, learning outcomes, and guiding principles for a 21st century college education. It reports on the promises American society needs to make - and keep - to all who seek a college education and to the society that will depend on graduates' future leadership and capabilities." -- Foreword (p. vii).

This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls on the nation to reclaim higher education's civic mission. Commissioned by the Department of Education and released at a White House convening in January 2012, the report pushes back against a prevailing national dialogue that limits the mission of higher education to workforce preparation and training while marginalizing disciplines basic to democracy. It calls on educators and public leaders to advance a 21st century vision of college learning for all students, a vision with civic learning and democratic engagement an expected part of every student's college education. The report documents the nation's anemic civic health and includes recommendations for action that address campus culture, general education, and civic inquiry as part of major and career fields as well as hands on civic problem solving across differences. This report was prepared at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Education under the leadership of the Global Perspective Institute, Inc. (GPI) and AAC&U. It was developed with input from a series of national roundtables involving leaders from all parts of the higher education and civic renewal communities.

Provides a wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of student achievement in college, also examines a set of outcomes that are highly prized both by the academy and by employers.

Published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, this issue of "Diversity Digest" focuses on institutional leadership and how it advances diversity in higher education. Articles presented in this issue include: (1) Intercultural Learning for Inclusive Excellence (Edgar Beckham); (2) Demanding, Attracting, and Developing Diversity Leadership (Martha J. LaBare); (3) Why Allen and Joan Bildner and the Bildner Family Foundation Funded a Statewide Diversity Initiative (Caryn McTighe Musil); (4) Learning to Listen as We Lead (Matthew Reed); (5) Where Worlds Converge: Designs for Intercultural Learning (Caryn McTighe Musil); (6) Curricular Transformation through Collaborative Teaching (Tim Haresign); (7) Institutional Models that Cultivate Comprehensive Change (Michael Knox and Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi); (8) Intercultural Learning in First-Year Seminars (Maria Tahamont); (9) Designing Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Spaces (Isabel Nazario); (10) Enhancing Collaborative Leadership of Faculty and Staff (Joe Marchetti); (11) Faculty-Driven Curricular Change (Jill Schennum); (12) Diversity as Shared Practice (Martha LaBare, Patrick Lamy, and Sandy Van Dyk); (13) Dialogue Groups at Princeton University Library (Janet Dickerson, Lila Fredenburg, and Luisa R. Paster); (14) Epistles, Posters, and Pizza: Letter-Exchange Programs at Rutgers--Camden (Holly Blackford); (15) Forging Campus-Community Connections: Scholars and Students Shedding Light on the New Newark (Clement Alexander Price); (16) "Beyond Food": Creating Opportunities for Intercultural Communication with Students and Local Residents (Peter Dlugos); (17) Something to Declare: Performing Oral History (Tim Raphael); (18) Putting Student Voices in Public Spaces (Thomas Molski and Jill Schennum); (19) Cross-Cultural by Design: The Center for Cultures and Communication at Bloomfield College (Rashimi Jaipal); (20) Cafe Bergen (Andy Krikun); (21) Assessing Diversity Attitudes in First-Year Students (Sonia V. Gonsalves); and (22) Infusing Cultural Competency into Health Professions Education: Best and Promising Practices (Debbie Salas-Lopez, Maria Soto-Greene, Catherine Bolder, and Robert C. Like). (Individual articles contain references.) [Support for this issue of "Diversity Digest" was provided by the Bildner Family Foundation. For "Diversity Digest. Volume 9, Number 1," see ED493635.].