Past Projects
This page offers not just a listing of projects that ACM has carried out during the past decade but, more important, a repository of information that advances the good work of those projects. These include:
- Liberal Education and Study Abroad: Assessing Learning Outcomes to Improve Program Quality, a collaborative project among the ACM, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), and the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), funded by a two-year $300,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation. More information
- The Global Partners Project : A Set of Initiatives to Strengthen International Study for Liberal Arts Colleges, a collaboration among the ACM, the GLCA, and the ACS, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More information is available on the Global Partners website.
- Engaging Today's Students with the Liberal Arts, a project running from 2002-2006 supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to help faculty and staff understand and support students' academic and personal development throughout their college careers.
- Information Literacy Projects: Working meetings that ran from 2000-2006 for campus teams of faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists promoting information literacy skills among students at ACM colleges, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Professional Development Grants For 30 years, the ACM academic deans sponsored a program for professional development designed to support meetings, workshops, seminars, visiting scholar programs, and other projects that addressed subjects of importance to faculty within a particular discipline or across a range of disciplines. Through the years, more than 50 events were funded.