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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Environment Agencies and Organizations in the Great Lakes Region
The Institute was conceived to have a regional Great Lakes focus, and its research themes cover a diverse area of disciplines focused around the overall goal of improving our understanding and management of the Great Lakes through ecosystem-based research.
The Lake Michigan Forum was established as part of the Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) as the central vehicle for stakeholder participation in developing and implementing the LaMP.
Great Lakes States' Chapters: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
www.great-lakes.net /links/envt   (1904 words)

  
  A Closer Look At Women's Colleges - Research Issues on Women's Colleges
Similar to research on women's colleges, there is a significant body of literature on historically fl colleges that demonstrates their ability to facilitate the success of fl students (Allen, Epps, and Haniff 1991; Fleming 1984; Green 1989; National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities 1991; Pascarella and Terenzini 1991).
A faculty member at Bennett College explained that their curriculum is fairly mainstream because "we need to prepare them to know the same material as other students so they can do well on the standardized tests." Nonetheless, members of both campuses emphasized the importance of exposing students to their own history, literature and backgrounds.
Hispanic-serving colleges are defined through their membership in the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), an association representing post-secondary institutions in the United States in which Latino students represent at least 35 percent of the total student enrollment.
www.ed.gov /pubs/WomensColleges/chap3fin.html   (4324 words)

  
 Kenyon College - Assistant Professor of Classics (Tenure Track)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kenyon is accredited by the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) and is a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium as well as the Great Lakes Colleges Association consortium.
Children of employees are eligible for 100% tuition waivers at Kenyon, and through the Great Lakes Colleges Association, children of employees are eligible for 90% tuition waivers at thirteen other of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges.
Kenyon College is located in Knox County, a rural county of rolling farmland and deciduous forests, in central Ohio.
www.kenyon.edu /x33064.xml   (652 words)

  
 Education Directory - Associations - By Region   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Appalachian College Association is a consortium of 34 private liberal arts colleges spread across the central Appalachian mountains in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, non-governmental, nonprofit, peer administered organization of diverse educational institutions in the Middle Atlantic States region of the United States, American territories in the Caribbean, and American and International educational institutions in Europe, Africa and the Mideast.
The mission of the southern association of colleges and schools is the improvement of education in the south through accreditation.
www.univsource.com /assocbyregion.htm   (137 words)

  
 Albion College News
The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of private liberal arts colleges including Albion, Antioch, Denison, DePauw, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan and Wabash Colleges and the College of Wooster.
GLCA awards and programs support excellent scholars and artists, as well as enhance the educational activities of its member colleges.
Ebenbach’s appearance is co-sponsored by the Albion College English department and Stockwell-Mudd Libraries, and is free and open to the public.
www.albion.edu /ac_news/releases2006-07/glcawriter_ebenbach.asp   (233 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
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.
The Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), like ACM and ACS, is dedicated to leading and fostering collaborative projects which bring its member colleges together in order to strengthen their academic programs and administrative operations.
www.global-partners.org /phaseone1.html   (2191 words)

  
 ACM Newberry Seminar -- Position announcement
The Newberry Seminar in the Humanities is administered by ACM and recognized by the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA).
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association offer faculty members an opportunity to teach and do research at one of the world's great research centers, the Newberry Library in Chicago.
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 /faculty/position-newberry.html   (1097 words)

  
 Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: News Releases
As a result, liberal arts colleges are recognizing a need to expand the borders of international education beyond the traditional junior year or semester study abroad programs, both to include more students and to contextualize their international experiences.
These colleges recently have begun teaming up in order to redefine international education and develop new and improved models for integrating this type of learning into the undergraduate curriculum.
Collaboration not only gives colleges the opportunity to play off of one another's strengths, but it also makes it viable for them to enrich their curriculums.
www.hws.edu /news/update/printwebclip.asp?webclipid=336   (2423 words)

  
 Netarx - Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Cisco VoIP Case Study
The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) serves 12 private colleges of liberal arts and sciences in the Great Lakes area, addressing fundamental issues such as educational quality, managerial effectiveness, and public support.
Although the two organizations share the same office space, each had separate phone systems and, according to Eric Harper, technical manager for NITLE, "neither worked very well." GLCA was burdened with a key system that had reached its limit, and it was so outdated that adding a new employee to the phone system was expensive.
Netarx worked on a converged Cisco IP network solution for NITLE and GLCA-it was to be full project, beginning to end, with Netarx handling the solution design, implementation, and optimization.
www.netarx.com /great_lakes_case_study_voip_ip_communications_telephony.asp   (872 words)

  
 Saint Mary's University of Minnesota - Winona, MN - Colleges of Distinction   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The College integrates undergraduate education in the liberal arts with a residential experience to challenge and support students in their intellectual, spiritual, personal, and professional development.
The Saint Mary’s University community, together and by association, is dedicated to quality, diversity, accessibility, social justice, and sound stewardship in all its endeavors.
The most recent study by the Great Lakes Colleges Association ranked Saint Mary’s as the No. 3 Catholic, liberal arts, undergraduate institution in the country, and No. 1 in the Midwest, in the ratio of its graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees.
www.collegesofdistinction.com /collegetemplates/fastfacts.asp?cid=482   (430 words)

  
 Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Denison is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) and the North Coast Athletic Conference.
This is a land grant college established in 1870 with the main campus located in Columbus, Ohio.
And they do so in lively classes with a great deal of personalized attention from their professors.
www.allaboutcolumbusohio.com /univ.htm   (438 words)

  
 Great Lakes Institute of Management
I mean, the seniors din’t have any of these clubs and associated extra work to content with and yet they barely scraped thru the year due to the nature of the course.
Being a political editor, he commented that Great Lakes is just as old as the present UPA government and in a lighter vein said he would stop the comparison there.
He attributed the stellar success of Great Lakes to the clarity in vision and purpose, good curriculum, staff members, efficient admission policy, good infrastructure, linkages with industry and knowledge sector, and involvement of students and faculty.
greatlaker.wordpress.com   (4123 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.
Seminars are offered on a wide variety of topics, but all seminars are designed to allow students to create their own research project appropriate to the Newberry Library collections.
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)

  
 Kenyon College - 5.13 TUITION BENEFITS
Kenyon College provides several programs in support of educational opportunities for benefit-eligible employees, their spouses, and/or domestic partners and dependents.
Conditions of eligibility are the same as for other employees and their dependents except that, in the case of deceased employees, eligibility conditions for dependents must have been met at the time of the employee's death.
Applied music fees and other fees for private lessons, like all non-tuition fees, are the responsibility of the student, except in the case of a College employee whose lessons are directly related to her or his work for the College, as determined by the employee's senior staff member.
www.kenyon.edu /x18664.xml   (1138 words)

  
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The Great Lakes Colleges Association is seeking a Program Officer.
The GLCA is pleased to announce the WINNERS of the 2008 New Writers Awards.
The GLCA is pleased to announce the start of its 2009 New Writers Awards competition.
www.glca.org   (93 words)

  
 Liberal arts college - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level.
Chambers Building, Davidson College, NC Generally, liberal arts colleges are small and thus have smaller class sizes and enrollment than universities.
Liberal arts colleges are often private institutions, although a number of state-supported institutions also operate on liberal arts college models.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_arts_colleges   (555 words)

  
 Colleges and Universities
Lakeland Community College states that its mission is "to provide quality learning opportunities to meet the social and economic needs of the community." Its campus is one of the safest in the nation.
Stark State is the largest college in Stark County and the largest technical college in Ohio.
It is also is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), The Five Colleges of Ohio, and the North Coast Athletic Conference.
www.case.edu /president/aaction/univ.html   (1035 words)

  
 Working Within Consortia
In both cases Pomona College staff has worked closely with the faculty and administrators of the host program with the intent to meet some of our special needs, while supporting the program's existing educational goals.
Additionally, R-MWC and the Japanese college have agreed to short-term exchanges of faculty (or non-faculty) members for two weeks each year with the host institution providing lodging and defraying the cost of meals.
Since the Japanese college's academic year begins in mid-April, early summer is an excellent time for R-MWC faculty and students to take part in their programs.
www.beloit.edu /~i50/whatworks/part3b.html   (2229 words)

  
 National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center (ACSTC), located at Southewestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and primarily serving colleges in the South, including the members of the Associated Colleges of the South.
The Center for Educational Technology (CET), located at Middlebury College in Vermont and primarily serving colleges in the Mid-Atlantic and New England Region.
NITLE's executive director is Jo Ellen Parker, former president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and one of the original architects of The Mellon Foundation's Centers Strategy for liberal arts colleges.
goa.cet.middlebury.edu /about.htm   (1702 words)

  
 Hope College | Domestic Study Opportunities
The Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. (GLCA) provides in its New York Arts Semester rich opportunities for the student seriously interested in art, music, dance, communications, English or theatre.
The Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. (GLCA) sponsors this program which allows qualified majors in natural sciences, social sciences, mathematics, or computer science to spend one semester at one of the world's major research centers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The courses and the seminar are led by GLCA faculty.
www.hope.edu /academic/domestic   (1002 words)

  
 Great Lakes Colleges Association/Associated Colleges of the Midwest Oak Ridge Science Semester
Great Lakes Colleges Association/Associated Colleges of the Midwest Oak Ridge Science Semester
Participating Universities: institutions belonging to either the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. or the Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Funding source(s): Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc/Associated Colleges of the Midwest
see.orau.org /ProgramDescription.aspx?Program=10043   (157 words)

  
 Teaching Foreign Languages in a Liberal Arts Curriculum: Report On a Great Lakes Colleges Association Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: )
IN April 1977 a conference on the teaching of foreign languages was held at the College of Wooster under the sponsorship of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, a regional consortium of independent liberal arts colleges in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Since all of the participants came from small, independent liberal arts colleges where languages are constantly competing for funds against more powerful departments, they were naturally eager to share experiences.
In his language classes at the College of Wooster, Pablo Valencia (Spanish) uses an overhead projector to illustrate grammatical concepts and to prompt immediate oral responses.
www.mla.org /adfl/bulletin/v09n2/092046.htm   (2131 words)

  
 Otterbein College International Student Programs - Domestic Off-Campus Study
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors in any major are eligible to apply to the Philadelphia Center, sponsored by the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
Otterbein College is a member of the Washington Semester Plan, an exciting opportunity in at American University in Washington, D.C. that offers 13 different programs for full credit.
The primary objective of cross-registration is curriculum enrichment: a student is exposed to a new area of study without having to go through the more involved steps of admission to another institution as a transient student.
www.otterbein.edu /Admission/international/domestic.asp   (420 words)

  
 College of Wooster: About the College
The College of Wooster is affiliated with a number of regional and national consortia.
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio
Administered in cooperation with 50 outstanding private colleges and universities throughout the United States, the Watson Fellowship provides a grant of $22,000 to each recipient.
www.wooster.edu /about/consortia.php   (144 words)

  
 Affiliate Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A Rollins College application is required in addition to the individual program application.
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.
www.rollins.edu /int-programs/affiliate_prog.html   (803 words)

  
 Kalamazoo College
The Kalamazoo College women's cross country team finished 11th at the Division III Great Lakes Regional Meet in Hanover, Ind. on Saturday, Nov. 11.
The Kalamazoo College women's cross country team finished 10th out of 33 teams and the men finished 16th out of 27 teams in the Maroon Division of the Loyola Lakefront Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 30.
The Kalamazoo College women's cross country team finished fourth and the men's team finished fifth at the MIAA Jamboree in Holland on Saturday, Sept. 23.
www.kzoo.edu /sports/wcc   (587 words)

  
 Global Partners Regional Alliances
This region--especially China and Japan--is of growing interest to the project's participating colleges, many of which recently received grants from the Freeman and Luce Foundations to strengthen study of and in Asia.
Since East Asian studies is often a new field, many colleges are feeling their way through unknown territories and challenges; they could learn from each other if they collaborate on their experiences.
It is also a large and complex field, involving many cultures and academic disciplines, but few of our colleges are able to have more than one or two experts on their faculties.
www.global-partners.org /africa   (761 words)

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