Babson College is one of 18 institutions selected to comprise the Leadership Consortium in Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
The participating institutions were selected both on the basis of work already accomplished in the spirit of Core Commitments and on an articulated plan to deepen and extend that work on campus.
“Selection as part of the Leadership Consortium is a testament to the strength of your current academic and co-curricular programs and to the dedication of faculty, staff, and administrators at Babson College who make such education opportunities for students possible,” according to Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior VP of AAC&U and project director of Core Commitments, in a letter to Babson undergraduate dean Dennis Hanno.
Musil’s letter continues: “The purpose of this project is to help the selected campuses in the Leadership Consortium to address these issues collaboratively and to provide leadership models for others.”
Consortium members receive a $25,000 award and have committed $25,000 in institutional matching funds over two years to provide students with purposeful and progressively challenging educational experiences leading to the targeted outcomes of the Core Commitments initiative. As part of their plans, campus leadership teams will administer a new Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Inventory to students, faculty, student affairs administrators, and academic administrators to measure the impact of existing campus efforts. The results will be used to shape future work at each institution and across the consortium.
“I am very pleased that Babson is among the schools selected to lead the first phase of this national initiative. It’s both an honor and a responsibility to which we’ll give a great deal of energy and time,” says Babson’s Dean Hanno. “Expect to see personal and social responsibility objectives demonstrated in and out of the classroom, and on and off campus, as we continue to engage in global and local citizenship responsibilities.”
The Consortium will convene for the first time in Washington March 30th – April 2nd.
Members of The Leadership Consortium are:
| Babson College, MA
Bowling Green State University, OH
California State University-Northridge, CA
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Miami University, OH
Michigan State University, MI
Middlesex Community College, MA
Oakland Community College, MI
Rollins College, FL | Saint Mary’s College of California, CA
St. Lawrence University, NY
Tulane University, LA
United States Air Force Academy, CO
University of Alabama Birmingham, AL
University of Central Florida, FL
University of the Pacific, CA
Wagner College, NY
Winthrop University, SC |
