Core Commitments: Educating Students for
Personal and Social Responsibility

Past Core Commitments Events

Network for Academic Renewal Conference, Fall 2009
Student Workshop 2009
Spring LEAP Forum 2009
Fall Symposium 2008
Summer Institute 2008
Annual Meeting Symposium 2008
Fall Symposium 2007
Summer Institute 2007
Launch Meeting 2007

• Network for Academic Renewal Conference, Fall 2009
  Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments
  October 1 - 3, 2009
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
• Student Workshop
  Ethical Identity and Imagination
  October 1, 2009
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
• Spring LEAP Forum 2009 (pdf): Responsiblity in a Time of Crisis
  May 21, 2009
  Miami, Florida
  Presentations:
  - Carol Geary Schneider and Eduardo Padrón: Responsiblity in a Time of Crisis - Welcome and Framing Remarks (power point)
  - Lewis Duncan, Bill Diggs, and Frank Nero: Democracy's Promise (power point)
  
• Fall Symposium 2008: A Focus on Taking Seriously the Perspectives of Others.
  October 15-16, 2008
  Long Beach, California
  Presentations:
  -Caryn McTighe Musil: Taking Seriously the Perspectives of Others: A Collective Responsibility (pdf)
  -L. Lee Knefelkamp: Taking Seriously the Perspectives of Others: Difference, Discernment, and Decision-Making (pdf)
  -Laura I. Rendón: Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation (pdf)

• Summer Institute 2008 (pdf): Minding the Gap.
  July 22-25, 2008
  Portland State University , Oregon
  Bibliography (pdf)
  - Carlos E. Cortés: Dilemmas of Diversity (pdf)

• Pre-conference Symposium: 2008 Annual Meeting: Intentional Learning, Unscripted Challenges: Knowledge and Imagination for an Interdependent World.
  January 23, 2008
  Washington, DC
  Presentations:
  -Caryn McTighe Musil: No Longer Optional: Educating for Personal & Social Responsibility (pdf)
  -Walter Earl Fluker: Staying Awake at the Intersection Where Worlds Collide.(pdf)
  -Marcia Mentkowski et al: Moral Rehearsals for Life-Long Learning.( pdf)
  -Luncheon Keynote: Elizabeth Kiss: Moral Development in College (Theirs and Ours). (podcast))

• Fall Symposium 2007 (pdf): Education for Personal and Social Responsibility: Building Collective Institutional Commitment.
  October 17-18, 2007
  Denver, CO
  Presentations:
  -Caryn McTighe Musil: Core Commitments:Contexts and Framings (pdf)
  -John Saltmarsh: The Civically Engaged Institution: Contributing to a
  Larger Community (pdf)
  -L. Lee Knefelkamp: Taking Seriously Education for Personal
  and Social Responsibility: Intercultural, Ethical, and Intellectual Development (pdf)

• Summer Institute 2007 (pdf)
  August 1-5, 2007
  University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
  Bibliography (pdf)

• Launch Meeting 2007 (pdf),
  March 30- April 1, 2007
  Washington, DC
  Presentations:
  -Lee Knefelkamp and Don McCabe: The Five Dimensions of Personal
  and Social Responsibility (pdf)
  - Lee Knefelkamp and Nancy O’Neill: Building Shared Commitment and Action: Planning the Dialogues (pdf)
  - Debra Humphreys: Communications and Advocacy (pdf)
  -Resistance: Not Always the Enemy. Nancy O'Neill: The Greater Expectations Gazette. June 24, 2006 (pdf)