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The LEAP Initiative in Brief
- Led by AAC&U, LEAP is a multi‐year effort to
advance:
- 1. A set of “essential learning outcomes” that all
college graduates need to succeed and contribute – in work, life and citizenship.
- 2. Far‐reaching changes across the curriculum to help
students achieve the recommended learning
- utcomes – from school and through college.
- 3. Forms of assessment that both develop and
document students’ learning gains.
The LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes
Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World
– Focused on engagement with big questions, enduring and contemporary
Intellectual and Practical Skills
– Practiced extensively across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance
Personal and Social Responsibility
– Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real‐world challenges
Integrative and Applied Learning
– Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems