AAC&U’s "Bringing Theory to Practice" project

From the AAC&U website:

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project…encourages colleges and universities to reassert their core purposes as educational institutions not only to advance learning and discovery, but to advance the potential and well-being of each individual student, and to advance education as a public good that sustains a civic society.

That language is a little too lofty and abstract for my tastes. Their next paragraph is a little more down-to-earth:

The Project supports campus-based initiatives that demonstrate how uses of engaged forms of learning, actively involving students both within and beyond the classroom, directly contribute to their cognitive, emotional, and civic development.

Today we received their second newsletter. Here are links to more information about the project and to their first and second newsletters.