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Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) is a consortium of sixteen distinguished liberal arts colleges and universities. They are nationally recognized institutions located in the South, encompassing twelve states.
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Beginning this fall, Centre College, in partnership with Enterprise Rent-a-Car, will introduce the WeCar initiative as a new means of transportation for students. The car-sharing program will allow students 18 and older to rent one of two cars on either an hourly or daily basis, with a fuel card included in the cost. Full Story
Southwestern University receives $500,000 to reshape its Paideia Program. The Paideia program was started in 2003 to give students additional opportunities to make connections between what they are learning in the classroom and the world around them, and to act upon their learning. Full Story
The University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab has launched Visualizing Emancipation, an interactive online map that shows where and when slavery fell apart during the American Civil War. The map enables users to set in motion more than 3,000 events that occurred across the South during the war. It displays them alongside the movement of Union troops and the shifting legal boundaries of slavery, providing new understandings of where and when emancipation occurred. Full Story
Washington and Lee University is developing a new Global Learning Initiative. If it is fully adopted, the initiative will provide far more than the traditional study-abroad experience that W&L students have been enjoying for years. "Global learning means that by understanding a foreign culture, a student not only gains new knowledge about that place but also learns to appreciate better his or her own country and its cultural attributes," said Larry Boetsch ’69, director of W&L's Center for International Education. "International education is an aspect of that. It is not just a matter of crossing borders." The initiative, in fact, proposes no less than a redefinition of a liberal arts education. Full Story |
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 Faculty Advancement Grants Available
Request for pre-proposals - Closed
Request for full proposals - Deadline May 15, 2012
Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop - June 4-9, 2012
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Consortium Describes New Paradigm Initiative
Modules Created by ACS Chinese Faculty
Several ACS faculty have developed online modules for classroom teaching on various subjects such as Chinese literature, Chinese dance, Chinese film, Chinese characters and Chinese religion. Following are the names of the faculty participating in the New Paradigm Initiative and the links to the modules that they have created:
ACS and University of Georgia Partnership
As a part of its five-year partnership with the University of Georgia (UGA), the consortium is seeking ACS faculty who would like to spend a semester or year at UGA collaborating with a colleague or working in a laboratory closely related to his or her area of specialization. Are there faculty for whom access to the University laboratories and equipment could be especially helpful in their teaching, research and professional
development? Are there faculty interested in partnering
with specific UGA faculty who could enhance their skills or help them shape new research initiatives? Faculty interested in pursuing such contacts and arrangements may contact the office at acs@colleges.org.
NITLE Opportunities
Spring 2012 Palladian -- our most recent newsletter (PDF)
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