Keynote Presenters

Carol Geary Schneider
	Give Students a Compass: Connecting Liberal Learning with Twenty-First Century Realities

Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. With 1,100 institutional members, AAC&U is the leading national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate liberal education. In 2005, President Schneider initiated Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), a ten-year campus action and public advocacy campaign design to engage students and the public with what really matters in college.

Prior to her appointments at AAC&U, Dr. Schneider spent ten years at the University of Chicago, where she directed the Midwest Faculty Seminar–a scholarly and educational collaboration between the University of Chicago and fifty Midwest colleges. She was a founding director of The University of Chicago Institutes on Teaching and Learning and also helped establish the Chicago Teaching Program, a pioneering effort to deepen graduate students' preparation for college teaching. She has taught at Boston University, Chicago State University, The University of Chicago, and DePaul University. In 1982, she was named a Mina Shaughnessy Fellow of the U.S. Department of Education and she has been a distinguished Visiting Scholar at The American University in Cairo, 1997 and a Getty Center Visiting Scholar for the Seminar on Public Culture in 1998.

Dr. Schneider is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College 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.

Randy Bass
	Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning

Randy Bass is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University. He earned his PhD and MA degrees from Brown University and his BA from the University of the Pacific. He is Assistant Provost, for Teaching and Learning Initiatives, the Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship, and Scholarship Director of the Visible Knowledge Project. He is also a Consulting Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

His teaching and research interests include:19th century American literature and American cultural studies; American documentary; and representations of violence and social crisis. His primary interests include use of new technologies in humanities instruction, and pedagogy, theory and practice of digital textuality.

Randy Bass's selected publications include: serving as Co-editor of Intentional Media: The Crossroads Conversations on Learning and Technology in the American Culture and History Classroom (Works and Days, 2000); serving as Editor of Border Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers (Houghton Mifflin, 1999); serving as supervising editor of Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Using Technology in Teaching American Studies; and serving as director of the American Studies Crossroads Project (crossroads.georgetown.edu). He also wrote "Story and Archive in the 21st Century" College English. (June, 1999)

Honors, grants, and awards he has won include a $2.67 million grant for the Visible Knowledge Project (2000) and the EDUCAUSE medal for outstanding achievement in technology and undergraduate education (1998).He also served as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1999).