June 14-19, 2009

A seminar for college and university CAOs, Vice Presidents, Provosts, Academic Deans and leaders responsible for curricula and faculty:

Citizenship in the American and Global Polity

The seminar will be held on June 14-19, 2009 at the Aspen Institute Wye River Campus in Queenstown, Maryland.  The focus of the seminar is what our students need to know and what we need to teach in a diverse, challenging, global world.  This seminar addresses what we believe is the central need of a liberal arts institution's faculty: to exchange ideas with colleagues from other colleges and disciplines while probing the fundamental values that underlie their teaching.  Readings are selected to challenge participants to focus on values such as individual rights and responsibilities both nationally and globally, and the public purposes of education in a free, democratic republic.

For the past thirty years, an interdisciplinary cross-section of thoughtful faculty have enjoyed stimulating discussions in formal seminars with time to read, reflect, exercise, and socialize at the bucolic Aspen Wye River campus onthe shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Alumni of these seminars have consistently praised the week at Wye and the many benefits they bring back to their home campuses.  We are now able to inaugurate a similar seminar exclusively to Chief Academic Officers.

Co-sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Please send applications to Charlene Costello, Senior Coordinator, deadline extended to April 15, 2009: phone 410-820-5374, fax 410-827-9182, or charlene.costello@aspeninsitute.org.