Wye Chief Academic Officers' Seminar
June 15-20, 2008

In 2008 the Aspen Institute and Association of American Colleges and Universities will be offering the Wye Chief Academic Officers’ Seminar for the first time. The subject of the seminar is Citizenship and the Polity. This exciting new event will be held June 15-20, 2008 on the beautiful Wye campus of the Aspen Institute. The seminar will address education for citizenship, a theme that has never been more important to our students, our campuses and our society, in a diverse, challenging, global environment. 

The Wye Chief Academic Officers’ Seminar will attract CAO’s from a wide range of colleges and universities interested in broad issues of citizenship and civil society. This seminar addresses what we believe is the central need of all educational institutions: to exchange ideas with colleagues from other colleges and universities while probing the fundamental values and goals that are the reason for our institutional existence. 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 on the 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 for chief academic officers.

Through a special arrangement with Aspen Institute we are able to offer this program for less than a third of the cost to corporate participants who attend Aspen’s flagship Executive Seminar. The fee for 2008 is $3500 including meals, lodging, and reading materials which are sent out six weeks prior to the seminar.

To register for this seminar, print out and send this application form to Charlene Costello, Seminar Coordinator: phone 410-820-5374, fax 410-827-9182, or charlene.costello@aspeninsitute.org. Contact Charlene to learn more about this excellent program.