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  About Lawrence Associated Colleges of the Midwest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Lawrence University is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
The member institutions of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) are 14 academically excellent, independent liberal arts colleges located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.
At the same time, the ACM colleges share many characteristics, especially a fundamental commitment to the liberal arts as the best preparation for life, employment, and contributing to society.
www.lawrence.edu /about/acm.shtml   (111 words)

  
  Newberry Library/ACM Undergraduate Seminar
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), in conjunction with the Great Lakes College Association (GLCA), offers a semester-long fall seminar and a series of one month seminars during the winter and spring terms.
ACM and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. offer faculty members an opportunity to teach and do research at the Newberry Library.
Applications for the 2008-09 Program are due by March 1, 2007 and should be mailed to Daniel Sack, Program Officer, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, 205 W. Wacker, Suite 1300, Chicago IL 60606 (312-263-5000) or dsack@acm.edu.
www.newberry.org /research/undergrad/acmfac.html   (1023 words)

  
  Grinnell College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The college, originally known as Iowa College, was the first college to grant a bachelor's degree west of the Mississippi River.
Grinnell College was founded as Iowa College in Davenport, Iowa in 1846 and was known by that name until 1909 when the Board of Trustees officially adopted the name Grinnell.
Grinnell College is in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, roughly half-way between Des Moines and Iowa City and approximately four hours drive from Chicago and Minneapolis.
www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Grinnell_College   (862 words)

  
 Global Partners | Phase One Proposal to Mellon Foundation
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, The Associated Colleges of the South, and The Great Lakes Colleges Association request support for a three-year project to reconceive existing study-abroad programs through increased collaboration between the three organizations and their forty-one member institutions.
ACM, like GLCA and ACS, is financially supported by its member institutions and has received grants from agencies of the federal government and from private foundations to support specific activities and projects.
ACM, ACS, and GLCA were motivated to explore extended cooperation by the recognition that we face similar challenges in the area of off-campus study and by the belief that collaboration and sharing resources will lead to more effective and efficient responses.
www.41colleges.org /phaseone1.html   (2180 words)

  
 Sample Chapter for Drewry, H.N. and Doermann, H.: Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students.
Tougaloo College, built on a former slave plantation, samples the architecture of several periods: the president's office is in the original plantation owner's house, next door to a large 1960s rough-concrete library, and a block from a utilitarian 1990s humanities building.
As with private colleges throughout the nation, the percentage of faculty at private fl colleges with doctoral or professional degrees increased significantly in the past twenty years: from 41 percent of all faculty in 1977 to 62 percent in 1997.
Many fl college graduates, particularly from residential colleges, have said that their undergraduate years provided an important transition from family dependence to adult self-direction, and that their personal development in college was as important to them as their academic experience.
www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7172.html   (4278 words)

  
 Colleges and Universities by State
Association of American Colleges and Universities - national higher education association committed to making the aims of liberal learning a vigorous and constant influence on educational practice and institutional planning.
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACandU) - Members are liberal arts colleges, two-year colleges, research and doctoral-granting universities, master's-degree colleges and universities, professional universities, and systems offices.
Association of State Colleges and Universities - The association promotes broad understanding of public higher education's essential role in society, and is the advocate and guardian for public higher education policy issues at the national, state and campus levels.
www.edinformatics.com /colleges_universities/US_Colleges.htm   (606 words)

  
 Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)
ACM offers off-campus study programs around the world for undergraduates
If you have any questions or comments about this Web site, please contact Scott Lewis at ACM (312/263-5000 or slewis@acm.edu).
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest does not discriminate in the operation of its educational programs, activities or employment on the basis of sex, race, creed, national origin, age, sexual orientation or disability.
www.acm.edu   (114 words)

  
 Affiliate Information
Rollins College is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.
College Year in Athens provides the student with the resources to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hollins University was among the first colleges in the nation to offer an international study program in Paris, in 1955.
www.rollins.edu /int-programs/affiliate_prog.shtml   (824 words)

  
 ACM Wilderness Field Station
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) has operated its Wilderness Field Station since 1962, giving college students a unique opportunity to learn through field studies in one of America's outstanding wilderness areas.
For students from ACM colleges, tuition for each course will equal approximately one-ninth of the Carleton college 1996-97 tuition, and is paid directly to Carleton.
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest does not discriminate in the operation of its educational programs, activities or employment on the basis of sex, race, creed, national origin, age, sexual orientation or handicap.
www.carleton.edu /curricular/BIOL/classes/Wilderness.html   (1632 words)

  
 Associated Colleges of the Midwest - Faculty Career Enhancement Project - FaCE - Women's Leadership Development Seminar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The ACM Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) developed the Seminar and will be working closely with a planning committee.
The Seminar is designed for the following ACM faculty and academic administrators: women who have already attained a leadership role; women who are working toward leadership roles; and women who are looking ahead to leadership positions.
Huseman currently serves as the President of the University of Maine at Machias, and, from 1994-1997, she was President of Monmouth College.
department.monm.edu /face_acm/workshops/2005/womens-leadership.htm   (344 words)

  
 Study Abroad - ACM Sponsored Programs
The College of the University of Chicago is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), which sponsors a number of study abroad programs.
Since ACM single-term programs are conceived as semester or half-year programs (most of the schools in this consortium are on a semester calendar), ACM bills its member schools a half-year's tuition for each participating student from that school.
You apply to an ACM program by completing the general Chicago study abroad application as well as a supplementary application specific to the ACM program in which you are interested.
study-abroad.uchicago.edu /programs/acm.html   (1679 words)

  
 Great Lakes Colleges Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Board is composed of the presidents of the 12 member colleges, the chair of the Deans' Council, three faculty members from the Academic Council, and the president of the GLCA ex-officio.
The Deans of Students meet with their Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) colleagues annually in Chicago in the fall, and occasionally meet as a GLCA group in the spring or summer.
The Planning for College Program is designed to address two areas of concern: building the pool of multicultural students who are prepared for a college education, and creating connections between this pool of students and the GLCA member colleges.
www.glca.org /main.cfm?location=57&CID=16   (1037 words)

  
 College Places - Admissions, Search, Scholarships - College Associations
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The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu), a voluntary consortium of more than 100 non-profit institutions of higher education, is the coordinating organization and public policy...
College admissions, financial aid, college search - College Confidential.com is the best web source for information on college-related topics, from Ivy League admissions to evaluating college rankings, from college books and book reviews to college counseling and paying for a university education.
www.collegeconfidential.com /college_places/collegeassociations.htm   (586 words)

  
 Monmouth College - MC News and Events
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Recently, Monmouth College associate professor of chemistry Patricia Draves was a member of an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) grant-writing team that landed an $800,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for a Faculty Career Enhancement Project.
The Associated College of the Midwest are 14 academically excellent, independent liberal arts colleges located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado.
At the same time, the ACM colleges share many characteristics, especially a fundamental commitment to the liberal arts as the preparation for life, employment and contributing to society.
www.monm.edu /news/releases2004/haq.5-28-04.htm   (432 words)

  
 EDUCAUSE | Professional Development | Job Listing
The Midwest Instructional Technology Center is an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable faculty members, information and instructional technology staff members, librarians, and students to collaborate in developing, evaluating, and implementing new technologies for teaching and learning in the liberal arts tradition.
MITC serves the 26 member colleges of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. Information about MITC is available at www.midwest-itc.org.
The program associate will also identify and engage experts on campuses who can lead or develop such workshops for their colleagues with MITC support.
www.educause.edu /BrowseJobs/1224&ID=7017   (513 words)

  
 ORNL Program Celebrates 25 Years of Science Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Deans from the 12 GLCA colleges will be at ORNL Nov. 3 to get a first-hand look at the program, which has served as a model for the other DOE laboratories.
Students perform research at the cutting edge of science; learn to operate sophisticated, state-of-the-art equipment and instruments; and supplement their laboratory research experience with seminars, workshops, and coursework under the direction of ORNL staff scientists.
Three resident faculty members from colleges of the consortium also are assigned to the Laboratory to do research, provide coursework, and counsel the students.
www.ornl.gov /info/press_releases/archive/ornl.html   (288 words)

  
 Study Abroad in Russia
Wooster sends most students on the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's program in Krasnodar, meaning a student's new home will be Krasnodar, Russia, right in the heart of the Kuban region, on the Black Sea.
A professor from one of the participating American colleges accompanies the group to assure the quality of the program and to teach a director's course in her or his specialty, which has ranged from history and literature to economics.
According to the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the program fee for the 1999 Fall Semester Abroad in Krasnodar is approximately $1750.
www.wooster.edu /russia/abroad.html   (1030 words)

  
 Minnesota's Private Colleges - Carleton College
Carleton College is a coeducational, residential college noted for bright and talented students and a strong faculty committed to teaching.
Additional programs are available through Carleton's membership in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) in the U.S., the Czech Republic, Japan, Italy, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, and India, and membership in the HECUA consortium with programs in the U.S., Guatemala, Ecuador, Norway, Northern Ireland, and Bangladesh.
Advanced placement credit: Advanced placement and/or credit may be granted to incoming students on the basis of the College Board Advanced Placement or the International Baccalaureate courses completed in high school when students also submit the results of AP or IB examinations.
www.mnprivatecolleges.org /colleges/carleton.php   (1100 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Impact of Inclusivity on the WTO Protest Movements," 2003 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 3-6 April 2003.
Participant, “Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere,” Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 3-5 March 2005 (Application Pending).
Participant, "Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism," Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 17-19 January 2002.
www.stolaf.edu /people/brooksd   (1349 words)

  
 Researching Colleges And Careers On The Internet
The College Parents Association sponsors this site, which includes a section on scholarship, scams, alcohol abuse on campus and many other topics of concern to parents sending their children off to college.
This site helps students who will attend county college to plan their courses to meet the requirements of the four-year school to which the student plans to transfer.
This is an excellent guide to researching colleges and is published by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
cmcweb.lr.k12.nj.us /library/cyber/researching.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Associated Colleges of the Midwest - Faculty Career Enhancement Project - FaCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project is designed to address the changing needs of faculty at ACM colleges at different stages of their careers.
Many of the ACM colleges have ongoing professional development activities that are open to ACM faculty on other campuses and the travel costs for those activities may be funded.
There is a Campus Liaison on every ACM campus; the Liaisons meet regularly to discuss the FaCE project activities.
department.monm.edu /face_acm   (276 words)

  
 E. O. Hutchins
In Hugh Thompson (Ed.), Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (pp.
Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2001.
ACM Workshop on Information Fluency/Literacy: 3 poster sessions on "Political Science/Library Partnership: Critical Thinking and Information Literacy" with Sheri Breen; "Information Literacy and Psychology at St. Olaf College: Over Two Decades of Collaborative Design, Teaching and Dissemination." with Kris MacPherson; and "Assessing an Information Literacy Assignment in Introductory Psychology" with Bonnie.
www.stolaf.edu /people/hutchine/eoh_resume.htm   (1570 words)

  
 About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, which supports the 16 member colleges and universities of the Associated Colleges of the South - !http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/
New Mellon grants were awarded to existing technology centers, one serving colleges in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region and the other serving the Associated Colleges of the South.
A third center in the Midwest was created, along with an institute at the national level to coordinate programming among these centers and to develop a national programming agenda.
www.midwest-itc.org /About/centers.html   (459 words)

  
 United States North America Colleges and Universities Education Reference English España
Members are liberal arts colleges, two-year colleges, research and doctoral-granting universities, master's-degree colleges and universities, professional universities, and systems offices.
A non-profit organization of colleges and universities serving as the national advocate for voluntary self-regulation through accreditation.
The association promotes broad understanding of public higher education's essential role in society, and is the advocate and guardian for public higher education policy issues at the national, state and campus levels.
www.amigar.com /buscador/Top/10109745-10000001   (510 words)

  
 Monmouth College - The Courier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Monmouth College president Richard Giese was appointed president of the Associated Colleges of Illinois at its annual meeting April 21.
Previously a member of the ACI board of directors, Giese is also a member of the board of the Illinois Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities and was recently named president of the board of directors of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
For more than 50 years, the Associated Colleges of Illinois has convened the very best minds to tackle critical issues facing business, education and society.
www.monm.edu /courier/2004/4-30-04/news/giese.htm   (285 words)

  
 Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)
Cornell and 13 other liberal arts colleges located in Iowa, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin compose the membership of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
The purpose of the Associated Colleges is to increase educational effectiveness and operating efficiency and to extend the areas of cooperation of the constituent colleges through off-campus programs (see ``Off-Campus Programs'').
Members are Beloit, Carleton, Coe, Colorado College, Cornell, Grinnell, Knox, Lake Forest, Lawrence, Macalester, Monmouth, Ripon, St. Olaf, and the College of the University of Chicago.
www.cornellcollege.edu /catalogue/2005/node6.html   (90 words)

  
 Annual Meeting 2004 | Conference Sessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Mars Hill College is implementing a new general education curriculum that is designed to help students develop the practical skills that will prepare them to make a living and make a life and that encourages them to reflect on character and responsible citizenship.
Six college leaders from three colleges, two of which are in transition, discuss the roles and responsibilities of college presidents and chief academic officers as they work together as a team to put ideas into practice and to lead institutional change.
We interrogate the assumption that off-campus study is de facto a "good thing." Assuming that off-campus study is a fundamental part of a liberal arts education, we instead endeavor to relate the practice of off-campus study to the educational goals commonly enshrined in the mission statements of liberal arts institutions.
www.aacu-edu.org /meetings/annualmeeting/AM04/sessions.cfm   (11061 words)

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