American Academy
for Liberal Education
Association for
Core Texts & Courses
Association for
General & Liberal Studies
Association for
Integrative Studies
Asheville
Institute on Liberal Learning
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This consortium is dedicated to promoting international conversations about the implementation and improvement of general and liberal studies programs in colleges and universities world-wide. We believe that such programs help students to develop the capacity for lifelong learning; to understand and assume responsible citizenship; and to develop as whole persons in individual traditions that are essential parts of a global humanity. We believe, furthermore, that each institution undertaking these programs has much to offer to enrich this conversation, and that no one type of program is universally applicable: the principles of mutuality and equality, implicit in the liberal arts philosophy, are essential to our conversations.
Our goal is to assist possibilities for collaboration through short- or long-term linkages, and to offer a crucial international dimension that can enhance each of our own institutions.
Margaret J. Downes, Ph.D., Director
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
downes@unca.edu