Carol Geary Schneider '67

2003-2008

Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. AAC&U is the leading national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate liberal education. Since becoming President of AAC&U, Dr. Schneider has initiated a major effort to rethink the broad aims of a 21st century college education so that liberal learning becomes a framework for the entire educational experience, whatever a student's choice of major and career.

Dr. Schneider is a 1967 graduate of Mount Holyoke with a bachelor's degree in history (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She studied at the University of London's Institute for Historical Research and earned the Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. She has taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Chicago State University and Boston University.

Dr. Schneider has published extensively on all the major areas of her educational work. Her most recent articles include: "Core Missions and Civic Responsibility: Toward the Engaged Academy," in Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, Thomas Ehrlich, ed., American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education, 2000, and "From Diversity to Engaging Difference," in Knowledge, Identity and Curriculum Transformation in Africa, ed. Nico Cloete, Mashew Miller Longman, South Africa, 1997, and, with Lee Knefelkamp, "Education for a World Lived in Common With Others," in Education and Democracy: Re-Imagining Liberal Learning in America, New York: The College Board, 1997.