Creating and Disseminating Sustained Advances in Liberal Arts Collaboration

The ACM Faculty and Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since fall 2004.

The Project's successful Phase I wrapped up with several workshops in April 2008.

In the meantime, FaCE Project Phase II has begun. A $600,000 grant to extend the project from the Andrew Mellon Foundation is supporting a new phase of research, workshops, and conferences that builds on lessons derived in the first years of activity.

FaCE Project Phase II

• Overview
• Funding is available for faculty projects
  • New Research Collaborations
  • Collaborative Events
• Call for Proposals - Deadline November 15, 2008 (on-campus deadline may be earlier)
• Calendar
• Contacts for more information

FaCE Project: Phase II
January 2008 - December 2010

Overview

The primary goal of Phase II of the FaCE project is to foster and enhance the rich collaboration within the ACM, and by doing so, foster collaboration more broadly within higher education by disseminating models and practices discerned through careful evaluation.

The key themes of Phase II are Collaboration; Sustainability; Outcomes and Impact. This project seeks to build on the comparative advantage liberal arts colleges have in developing successful models of pedagogical and scholarly collaboration that can transfer to other institutions, both large and small.

As Phase I of the FaCE Project and other ACM projects have demonstrated, ACM colleges have a productive history of consortial collaboration, making them particularly well suited to develop cross-institutional models of collaboration. By developing networks and tools that support collaboration, by carefully evaluating results, and by promulgating findings and best practices resulting from the projects, the ACM can meet the Mellon Foundation's challenge to sustain faculty development opportunities provided by the FaCE grant beyond the period of funding.

In order to achieve these goals, this project invites competitive proposals from faculty at ACM colleges, offering funding for research, meetings, development of internet-based outreach tools, or evaluation activities.

• Complete description of FaCE Phase II (PDF format)

Campus Liaisons

There is a Campus Liaison on every ACM campus; the Liaisons meet regularly to discuss the FaCE project activities.

ACM Office

Betsy Hutula (312-263-5000) is the contact person at the ACM office.

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