Note: This activity was part of the FaCE Project Phase I, which operated from Fall 2004 through Spring 2008. For information about current FaCE Project Phase II activities, go to the FaCE home page.

Common Interest Workshops

Proposals for Common Interest Workshops were accepted from individual faculty members, groups of faculty, or the Academic Deans. The Executive Committee of the Deans or the oversight committee for the grant evaluated proposals.

Some workshops were academic or curricular, and others addressed concerns for different phases of faculty careers, such as research or grant proposal development, manuscript publication preparation, or integrating pedagogical skills.

April 25-27, 2008: Teaching Art History at St. Olaf College and Carleton College in Northfield, MN.

April 11-12, 2008: Teaching the City at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

April 4-5, 2008: Teaching Ethics and Health at Ripon College in Ripon, WI. This workshop was in conjunction with the Ripon College Ethics and Health Care Conference.

April 4-5, 2008: Preparing Students for Responsible Citizenship at Beloit College in Beloit, WI. This workshop was in conjunction with Beloit College's conference on "Humanitarian Relief in the Wake of Manmade and Natural Disasters."

September 28-30, 2007: Conference on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO.

April 13-14, 2007: Teaching History Surveys at Monmouth College in Monmouth, IL.

March 23-25, 2007: ACM Department Chairs: Mentoring and Evaluating Early Career Faculty Members at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA.

Women's and Gender Studies: "Vital to the Mission and Key to Survival" on October 27-28, 2006 at Beloit College.

Wearing Many Hats: The Department Chair at Liberal Arts Colleges on October 20-22, 2006 at Macalester College.

Biological Anthropology and Liberal Arts Colleges on September 22-24, 2006 at Lawrence University.

Charting a Meaningful Scholarly Career on June 5-6, 2006 at St. Olaf College. This workshop was similar to the workshop in January 2006, but designed for new tenure-track faculty.

Women in Science Networking Seminar on March 3-5, 2006 at Coe College. Women faculty in the natural sciences and mathematics at ACM colleges met to share information about programs designed to support female faculty and students in those fields, as well as to create a network across the consortium.

Charting a Meaningful Scholarly Career on January 20-21, 2006 at Beloit College. The workshop was led by Jeanne Narum (Director, Independent Colleges Office/Project Kaleidoscope) and was designed for tenured faculty to consider research paths and opportunities.