- Denault Receives Off-Campus Research Prize
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Albion College website,
Apr 3, 2012
Albion College student Chelsea Denault (shown at right), who participated in the fall 2010 ACM Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities, was recognized as a finalist in the humanities by the selection committee for the annual Award for Outstanding Research on an ACM Program.
- The Great Debaters: Alderman Joe Moore and I go at it
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chicagoreader.com,
Feb 20, 2012
Journalist Ben Joravsky writes about a lively question & answer session/debate about Chicago politics that he had with Alderman Joe Moore for students on the ACM Chicago Program: Arts, Entrepreneurship, & Urban Studies.
- Imperialism 2.0: EU fosters Botswana degradation
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Al Jazeera-English online,
Feb 1, 2012
Macalester College geography professor Bill Moseley (shown at right), who is currently the Faculty Program Director of the ACM Botswana: University Immersion in Southern Africa program, discusses the negative ecological impact that European Union regulations on beef exports are having in Botswana. Moseley writes a monthly column on African environmental and agricultural issues for Al Jazeera-English online.
- Costa Rican EMT
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Macalester College website,
Dec 2, 2011
Macalester College student Andrew Flynn (at right in the photo) writes about his experience on the spring 2011 ACM Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & the Humanities program, where he volunteered on a paramedic ambulance for the Red Cross and conducted an independent research project on the topic "Emergency Response to Traffic Accidents in Rural Costa Rica."
- Knox Student Polishes Spanish Skills in Costa Rica
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Knox College website,
Nov 9, 2011
Matt McKinney, a Knox College junior from Springfield, Illinois, is spending his fall term away from the Knox campus – more than 3,000 miles away. A creative writing major, McKinney is developing his Spanish-language skills and becoming immersed in the culture of Central America through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Costa Rica program.
- Knox Students Win Nick Adams Writing Competition
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Knox College website,
Apr 28, 2011
Knox College senior Adam Sirgany (shown at right) 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.
- Quantifying Study Abroad's Impact
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Inside Higher Ed,
Apr 11, 2011
At the recent Forum on Education Abroad conference in Boston, ACM consortial and college staff participated in a session about ACM's use of the Learning from Study Abroad survey, which ACM and two other liberal arts consortia developed.
- Luther to host Associated Colleges of the Midwest Conference April 3-4
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Luther College website,
Mar 28, 2011
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.
- Knox, Monmouth students earn honors in photography contest
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Galesburg Register-Mail,
Feb 24, 2011
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.
- Individualized Learning Stories: New Methods
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Lawrence University website,
Feb 1, 2011
As a member of the ACM-Teagle Collegium on Student Learning, Lawrence University professor Joy Jordan (at left in the photo, with students) 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.