Project Outcomes

Faculty and staff at ACM colleges have designed and led a remarkable range of collaborative projects with the support of ACM grant-funded programs.

Through workshops and conferences, research groups, and seminars, their collective efforts have created a wealth of curricular materials, assessment tools, and best practices. The results of these projects are a valuable resource for the ACM colleges — and the higher education community in general — as well as a springboard for further collaboration among faculty.

Scroll down to learn more about projects funded by:

• The Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Program from 2014 to the present
• Seminars in Advanced Interdisciplinary Learning (SAIL)
• Enhancing the Midwest Knowledge Ecosystem (EMKE)

For information and results of more than 40 faculty projects funded by the FaCE Program in 2008-13, visit the ACM FaCE site on SERC.

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All projects

1. 

   A Model for Maker Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts

   The Lawrence University Interdisciplinary Makerspace for Engaged Learning

   • Institution(s): Lawrence University
   • Award: $23,337
   • ACM Program: FaCE
   • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches
2. 

   A Playful Approach to Practicing Creativity and Innovation

   • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
   • Award: -
   • ACM Program: SAIL
   • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Interdisciplinary approaches
3. 

   ACM Student Film Conference & Festival

   Showcasing Student Filmmakers, Screenwriters, and Scholars

   • Institution(s): Beloit College, Grinnell College, Lawrence University
   • Award: $38,685
   • ACM Program: FaCE
   • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

4. Advanced Topics in Psychology: Animal Psychology

   Module of Emphasis - Psychology of Humans Towards Animals

   • Institution(s): Beloit College
   • Award: -
   • ACM Program: SAIL
   • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences, Natural sciences

5. American Transcendentalists

   Curricular project: 200-level, interdisciplinary course

   • Institution(s): Carleton College
   • Award: -
   • ACM Program: SAIL
   • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

6. Ancient Art and Architecture of Mexico and Central America

   Water in Ancient American Ritual and Survival

   • Institution(s): Cornell College
   • Award: -
   • ACM Program: SAIL
   • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

7. ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability

   • Institution(s): Cornell College
   • Award: -
   • ACM Program: SAIL
   • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Social sciences

8. Asia in the American Midwest

   Enhancing Diversity, Visibility, and Connectivity through Digital Learning

   • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
   • Award: $12,645
   • ACM Program: FaCE
   • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Humanities, Social sciences

9. Building Community and Curriculum in a 21st Century Liberal Arts Major

   Curriculum Mapping in Sociology as a Means to Collaborate and Innovate

   • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Cornell College, Grinnell College, Lake Forest College, Macalester College, Luther College
   • Award: $14,900
   • ACM Program: FaCE
   • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Social sciences
10. 

    Carleton Arboretum Complex Redesign Project

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

11. Catastrophe and Apocalypse in Herculaneum

    A nine-session module at the 200-level

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences

12. Cities of the 21st Century

    The political economy of urban sustainability

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences

13. Contested Spaces: The Arctic

    Module 1 of a two-module course

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Humanities

14. Contested Spaces: The Brazilian Amazon

    Module 2 of a 2-module course

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Humanities

15. Critical Studies in Public Space

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Interdisciplinary approaches

16. Digital Storytelling and the Liberal Arts

    A Curriculum Development Workshop

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $17,021
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches

17. Ebola in Contested Spaces

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

18. Ecological Impacts of Tourism in and Around San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Natural sciences

19. En Passage

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

20. Engaging the Community of ACM Mathematicians

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Coe College, Cornell College, Knox College, Ripon College
    • Award: $17,600
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy

21. Environment and Resiliency in Italy

    A shared module for three courses

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences, Natural sciences

22. Environmental Psychology at Rocky Mountain Park: The Human Relationship with the Natural World

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Interdisciplinary approaches

23. Environmental Studies 381: Contested Spaces: Rivers

    Module: Integral Ecology Approaches to the Minnesota River

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

24. Faculty Development for Pedagogy Informed by Cognitive Science Research on Learning and Memory

    • Institution(s): Knox College
    • Award: $11,700
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Natural sciences

25. Faculty Working Groups to Implement Cognitive Science's Insights in the Classroom

    • Institution(s): Lake Forest College
    • Award: $6,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences
26. 

    Fostering Long-Term, Collaborative Research in Environmental Science at ACM Field Stations

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Grinnell College, Knox College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $35,254
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Natural sciences

27. From Disruption to Student Engagement

    Design and Assessment of Digital Humanities Course Assignments

    • Institution(s): Knox College, Monmouth College
    • Award: $12,200
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Humanities

28. GIS as a Platform for Interdisciplinary Education and Research

    Putting place, space, and humanity into a shared frame of reference

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Natural sciences

29. Global Challenges in Jordan

    A Case Study

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences

30. Global Political Ecology

    Ecological Worldviews Module

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Social sciences

31. Harnessing Big Data

    Planning for Collaborative Courses in Data Science

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Grinnell College, Luther College
    • Award: $5,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Using digital resources

32. How to Talk Midwestern

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Geography

33. Innovation Clusters

    Six perspectives on Silicon Valley

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

34. Integral Ecology

    Deepen Environmental Studies Students' Understanding of Interdisciplinarity

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

35. Introducing Change in Spanish 201

    Course Portfolio

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: Introducing Change
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

36. Introduction to Biblical Studies at Luther

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: Introducing Change
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

37. Italy and the Mediterranean: Earth, Sea, and Culture

    An international, block-length course in Italy

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Teaching off campus, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences, Natural sciences

38. Locally Francophone

    Community-Based Applied and Pre-Professional French

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Cornell College
    • Award: $3,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Teaching off campus, Humanities

39. Making Decisions with Data

    Planning for Collaborative Courses in Data Science

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Grinnell College, Lawrence University
    • Award: $9,300
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

40. Making the Most of Immersion

    Engaging Faculty to Maximize the Impact of Off-Campus Experiential Learning

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Carleton College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $17,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Teaching off campus

41. Minor Program in Animals and Society

    • Institution(s): Lake Forest College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Natural sciences

42. Multidimensional Ethical Dilemmas: Sacred & Commoditized Water in Atacama

    An activity to be used in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Social sciences

43. Museum Re-Imaginings

    Teaching through the Development of a Virtual College Museum

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $14,390
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

44. Nature at the Confluence

    Using the Lessons of Integral Ecology in the Creation and Implementation of a Student Final Project Assignment

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

45. Negotiating Citizenship in Contemporary Jordan

    A Simulation

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Social sciences

46. Open Access Musicology

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Lawrence University, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $8,800
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Humanities

47. Paideia 450: Crowds, Culture, and Cuisine: The Ancient and Modern City

    A January Term study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Humanities

48. Red-Dead Conveyance: Balancing Peace and Sustainability

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Social sciences, Natural sciences

49. Refugees in Jordan

    Using theatre to examine environmental and social sustainability

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

50. Religious Studies, Classroom Technology, and Digital Humanities

    • Institution(s): Colorado College, Lake Forest College, Ripon College
    • Award: $7,458
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Social sciences

51. Rhetoric 405: Communicating Public Problems: The Construction and Framing of Contemporary Social Issues

    Module: Environmental Crisis

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

52. Rio Loa Water Chemistry

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Natural sciences

53. Rivers in Space and Time

    An assignment for Geology 210: Geomorphology

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences, Natural sciences

54. Seeing/Observing Animals Across the Disciplines

    A joint assignment across 3 courses

    • Institution(s): Grinnell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Natural sciences
55. 

    Senior Projects

    Space and Innovation for a Small Group

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Teaching off campus, Humanities

56. Sharing Expertise in Community-Based Learning & Research Addressing Immigration

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Monmouth College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $25,504
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Social sciences

57. Sharing the Bounty

    Increasing Access to Language Learning Through Language Sharing and Faculty Collaboration

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $42,448
    • ACM Program: EMKE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Humanities

58. Social Impacts of Tourism in San Pedro de Atacama

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Social sciences

59. Sound Art

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

60. Summit on the Sophomore Year Experience

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Luther College
    • Award: $20,250
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Using digital resources

61. Supporting Student Quantitative Skills Development across the Curriculum with Qbit Online Modules

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: $16,975
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology

62. Sustainability and Collapse in the Middle East

    • Institution(s): Knox College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches
63. 

    Symposium on Field Study

    Establishing and Sharing Best-Practices at the Intersection of Place, Pedagogy, Innovation, and Technology

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: $32,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches

64. TAPIR

    Teaching Activities for Physics Inclusion Resources

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Colorado College
    • Award: $7,058
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

65. Teaching and Mentoring Research of Undergraduate Economics in the ACM

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Colorado College
    • Award: $8,184
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Social sciences

66. Technical Skills for Campaign Managers

    • Institution(s): Ripon College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Social sciences

67. The Arithmetic of Distance: A Module

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Social sciences

68. The Open Musicology Educational Resource

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Lawrence University, St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Using digital resources, Humanities

69. The Pompeii Project: A Case Study in Space and Gender/Sexuality

    A one-week module within a 10-week, 200-level course

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Social sciences

70. Tools for Teaching a Diverse Pre-Modern Western History

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Cornell College, Lake Forest College
    • Award: $8,690
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

71. Transferring Critical Thinking Skills into a Novel Context

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Natural sciences

72. Translation for Global Literacies Across the Curriculum

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Cornell College, Grinnell College
    • Award: $18,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

73. Tuning the Classics

    Promoting the Shared Skills and Values of the Discipline

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Cornell College
    • Award: $22,150
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

74. Using Cognitive Science to Bridge the Gaps Between Disciplines

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: $13,020
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

75. Using Cognitive Science to Build a Problem-Solving Core Curriculum at Ripon College

    • Institution(s): Ripon College
    • Award: $15,012
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Natural sciences

76. Using Cognitive Science to Inform First Year Seminar Pedagogy

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: $10,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

77. Video Pen-Pals

    Building Comparative Understanding of Health Care Systems in the U.S. and Abroad

    • Institution(s): Macalester College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $20,899
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Social sciences, Natural sciences

78. Water in Morocco

    Precious, Precarious and Problematic

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus