ACM in the News
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Knox College senior Adam Sirgany is the latest in Knox's long roster of winners in a prestigious college writing competition. Sirgany's story, "Andrew at Eid" won first prize in the 2011 ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest.
Educator and author James Farrell will speak on "How a New Understanding of Campus Life Can Change the World" at the plenary session of the ACM conference on "Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum," which will be hosted by Luther College on April 3-4.
An exhibit of prize-winning and honorable mention photos from the third annual ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest are on display in Monmouth College’s Hewes Library through March 23. The exhibit contains the work of one Monmouth College student and five Knox College students.
As a member of the ACM-Teagle Collegium on Student Learning, Lawrence University professor Joy Jordan just finished two years of in-classroom research studying the ways in which students learn. Based on her findings, she was eager to implement some new ideas into her teaching. Her Applied Statistical Methods course, with just two students, was the perfect place to begin.
Several faculty from ACM colleges presented findings from their research on metacognition at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The professors were members of the ACM-Teagle Collegium on Student Learning, which was supported by a grant from the Teagle Foundation.
Raluca Oprinca, a Knox College junior, presented the results of independent research she conducted on the ACM Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Science, & Humanities program at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference in Gottenheim, Germany.
Article about Sarah Klooster, a student at Hope College, and her experience last fall on the ACM Florence: Arts, Humanities, & Culture program.
In the 2009-2010 academic year, Carleton College faculty members received 29 grants which furnished a total of $585,582 in support for their scholarship and teaching. The list included four Carleton faculty who were part of groups that received grants from the ACM Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project to support collaborative faculty workshops.
Bonner Springs (KS) High School graduate and Coe College student Chelsea Simmons recently got her first stamp in her passport as she studied abroad, and she hopes it will be the first of many. Simmons spent her fall semester studying Spanish and Latin American culture on the ACM Costa Rica: Language, Society, & the Environment program.
Five Knox College students have been recognized for their photographic talents in the third annual Associated Colleges of the Midwest Off-Campus Study Photo Contest.
On the ACM Business, Entrepreneurship, and Society Program in Chicago, Knox College seniors Jordan Ball and Audrey Savage had internships with companies, networked with entrepreneurs, and gained insights into what it takes to build a successful business.
The article also appeared on the College News website of the Annapolis Group, an organization of 130 leading national independent liberal arts colleges.
Robyn Hart, Director of the ACM Business, Entrepreneurship, & Society program, participated in a panel with other national leaders in entrepreneurship and the liberal arts at Beloit College on Oct. 26, 2010 to discuss "Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts in Practice." The panel was a part of the 3rd annual Upton Forum on the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations at Beloit College.
Luther College faculty members Deborah Norland, professor of education, John Moeller, professor of political science and director of Ethics and Public Life, and Robert Shedinger, associate professor of religion, have been awarded Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) grants for collaborative research. Read more about ACM FaCE grants awarded to faculty in spring 2010.
Coe College has qualified for three Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) projects supported by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM). The three projects taking shape under the direction of Coe faculty range from a presentation focusing on electronic portfolios, to a conference discussing theatre and dance curriculums in the liberal arts college, to global citizenship on the island of Malta. Read more about ACM FaCE grants awarded to faculty in spring 2010.
An article about students on the India Summer Program: Service Learning & Cultural Immersion and their month-long experience in villages in the Melghat region.
An article about high school guidance counseling that features counselors and students at Hancock High School in Chicago notes that the ACM colleges are participating in an initiative that provides professional development opportunities for high school counselors in Chicago.
Art Talk Chicago reviews an exhibition at Zg Gallery in Chicago of new acrylic paintings by Martina Nehrling, Adjunct Instructor for the ACM Chicago Arts Program.
As Internship Coordinator & Faculty at the ACM Urban Studies program, Dorothy Burge teaches seminars about criminal justice and racism. She has attended the trial of Jon Burge (the two are not related), a former Chicago police commander who is accused of lying about acts of alleged police torture and is charged with perjury. Since the 1990s, Ms. Burge has been involved in public-awareness campaigns about the Jon Burge case.
A promising young member of Monmouth College's fall 2010 entering class, who is a student at John Hancock High School in Chicago, is the subject of an article in the current edition of The Economist. Outreach to Chicago Public Schools is part of the Pipeline 3.0 Project, in which ACM colleges are working with the Network for College Success at the University of Chicago to increase the number of highly qualified Chicago Public Schools students who enroll and graduate from selective colleges and universities.
ACM programs in Costa Rica have a notable appeal to Ripon College students who are interested in studying abroad.
An exhibit of award-winning photos from the ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest is on display at Monmouth College's Hewes Library through February 20.
Photographs by Knox College students Rebeccah Lanni, Joanna Stack, and Nick Kalmus received awards in the 2009-10 ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest.
Monmouth College physics professor Chris Fasano's proposal for a collaborative two-day high performance computing (HPC) workshop, titled "Developing a High Performance Computing Consortium for Multi-Disciplinary Applications on ACM Campuses," has received a grant from the ACM Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project.
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