Upcoming
2025 National Conference
March 31st and April 1st, 2025
The Coalition for Transformational Education’s National Conference is an opportunity to share and learn with others dedicated to evidence-based, learner-centered education that lays the foundation for wellbeing throughout life. This year’s conference will bring together thought leaders, educators, and innovators to explore the most pressing challenges and exciting opportunities in higher education today. Together, we will share insights, build connections, and chart a path toward transformational learning environments.
Previous Events
2024 National Conference
March 21-22, 2024
Making Higher Education Work For Life
The Coalition for Transformational Education’s National Conference is an opportunity to share and learn with others dedicated to improving higher education so that students who graduate from college do so with more than a degree alone, but with a sense of identity, purpose, agency, and wellbeing.
2023 National Conference
How does college contribute to a purposeful life and well-being? This is the question a national consortium of higher education institutions is exploring, guided by evidence that how you learn in college – in addition to what you learn — influences your identity, agency and purpose in life. The Coalition for Transformational Education includes presidents, provosts, faculty and administrators from colleges and universities across the country and a range of institutional types dedicated to improving the long-term flourishing and wellbeing of college graduates. Please join us as we work to build a broad and inclusive network of leaders in higher education who believe that it is our job to ensure that college is a transformational experience that sets our students on a path to success and fulfillment as they construct their lives.
2021 National Conference
The CTE is a growing coalition of diverse but like-minded institutions that are aimed at higher education’s “grand challenge.” Over the past decade, colleges and universities have focused their efforts on student success as measured by increased graduation rates and reduced time to degree. These efforts have led to major gains, and they are ongoing. They also lead naturally to the next frontier in higher education which is success as measured by impact on students after graduation. This goal is as appropriate to small liberal arts colleges as to regional and national public flagships with a dual mission of human development and work force development. If college is meant to prepare students to achieve financial viability, find meaning in their human relationships and their work, and contribute to the common good, higher education needs to figure out which experiences during a student’s education are most likely to lead to these life-transformative outcomes. And it needs to make these experiences available to all students at scale. This is the grand challenge for higher education that animates the work of the Coalition for Transformational Education.
2021 Leaders’ Meeting
A conversation with Dr. Dan Porterfield, President of the Aspen Institute.
