Call for Submissions
Submission Portal is Closed
2027 Call for Proposals will be available in January
The site for this year’s AGLS Constitute, is the home of the National Whitewater Center, featuring the world’s largest man-made whitewater river for rafting, kayaking, and canoeing. The Center offers rapids that range from Class II – exciting but manageable with some areas of smooth water to Class IV – with strong currents, big waves, and little calm water between rapids.
When life gets bumpy it sometimes becomes excruciatingly hard to wade through tough times. It is life’s way of teaching you timeless lessons of steadfastness, patience and forbearance. Challenges and hardships are not meant to break you, but to build your willpower, patience, and strength. Just like rough waters test a raft’s durability and rider’s skills, in the same way, the hard times test your inner character. Every struggle is a profound lesson in disguise—shaping you into someone wiser, more flexible, and more capable of tackling all kinds of challenges.
In higher education, and in particular in general education programs, periods of uncertainty and disruption place particularly challenging demands on us. Rapid institutional change, shifting student needs, technological transformation, and contested public expectations require educators to make careful, often difficult decisions about purpose, design, and practice. Like navigating rough water, this work calls for coordination, judgment, and adaptability rather than endurance alone. In such moments, general education becomes a site for clarifying values, refining priorities, and developing approaches that help students and institutions remain oriented amid change.
Like white water rafting, leading general education requires agility, teamwork, and courage. This year’s conference invites bold ideas and practical strategies that help leaders steer through uncertainty, overcome institutional rapids, and chart a course toward innovation and student success. We invite proposals that examine how general and liberal education can be intentionally shaped, strengthened, and sustained under these conditions.
Our 2026 tracks
- General Education Revision and Reinforcement
- Assessment in General and Liberal Education
- Teaching and Learning in General Education
Session formats for 2026:
- 30-Minute Presentation
- 60-Minute Interactive Session
- 20-Minute Discussion Round Table
- 60-Minute Poster Session
