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Carol Geary Schneider is President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. With more than 1,150 institutional members, AAC&U is the leading national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate liberal education.
Under her leadership, AAC&U launched Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), a ten-year public advocacy and campus action initiative designed to engage students and the public with what really matters in a college education for the 21st century. The LEAP campaign builds on AAC&U’s major effort, Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College, a multi-year initiative designed to articulate the aims of a 21st century liberal arts education and to identify comprehensive, innovative models that improve learning for all undergraduate students.
While a Vice President at AAC&U in the 1990s, Schneider headed a major initiative at AAC&U on higher education and US pluralism, American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning. Schneider has published extensively on all the major areas of her educational work and has taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Chicago State University, and Boston University.
Schneider is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in history (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She studied at the University of London's Institute for Historical Research and earned her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. She has also received honorary degrees from Towson University, Wagner College, Westminster College, Prince George's Community College, and the College of Wooster.
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