Carol Geary Schneider

President, Association of American Colleges & Universities

Phone: 202-884-7401

Email:cgs@aacu.nw.dc.us

Area of Expertise: Strengthening undergraduate liberal education

Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. With a membership of nearly 1100 institutions, including colleges and universities of all types and sizes, 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 several major initiatives. In 2005, AAC&U launched Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), a ten-year public advocacy and campus action initiative designed to engage students and the public with what really matters in a college education for the twenty-first century. The LEAP campaign builds on AAC&U's major effort, Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College, a multi-year initiative designed to articulate the aims of a twenty-first century liberal education.