Making High-Quality Learning Our Priority as Americans Go to College: An Employer-Educator Forum

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 9:00-11:45 a.m. (EDT)

Magnolia Room St. Regis Hotel, Washington, DC

At this forum, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is launching a new Employer-Educator Compact to make high-quality learning a national priority as employers seek college graduates with a broader set of skills and knowledge to fuel our innovation-driven economy. At the event, AAC&U is also providing an overview of new findings from a national survey of business and nonprofit leaders summarized in the report It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success. More than 100 college presidents—all members of the LEAP Presidents’ Trust—and more than 150 business and nonprofit leaders have signed on to the LEAP Employer-Educator Compact and pledged to work together to ensure that all college students—including those attending two-year and four-year, public and private institutions—have access to a high-quality liberal education that fully prepares them for work, life, and citizenship. Several of those signing the Compact are featured speakers at the event. U.S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter also will contribute her perspective on national higher education priorities.

Go to the link below for more information on the LEAP Employer-Educator Compact.

http://www.aacu.org/leap/presidentstrust/compact/index.cfm