In memoriam: James F. Slevin.

AAC & U notes with deep sadness and regret the death on March 1, 2006, of James F. Slevin, professor of English and director of the Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service at Georgetown University. In addition to his distinguished career at Georgetown, where he taught since 1976, Professor Slevin was an active and influential member of the AAC & U community. His contributions to AAC & U--on graduate education, students' intellectual development, and our responsibilities for social justice--were far-reaching.

Professor Slevin served as a consultant to AAC & U's FIPSE-funded project on Preparing Graduate Students for the Responsibilities of College Teachers. This pilot project, which engaged graduate students at three major universities with faculty and students in partner liberal arts colleges, pioneered strategies that were, during the following decade, dramatically expanded through the work of AAC & U's Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) initiative. As an evaluator and consultant, Slevin traveled to many campuses and advised PFF leaders. He was also a regular speaker at PFF national meetings.

A strong defender of both graduate and undergraduate students and their educational interests, an articulate proponent of liberal education, and a great teacher, James Slevin will be sorely missed.