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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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Centre College received a grant of $452,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be used to establish a Mellon Global Fellows program. The program is a three-year initiative that will establish five faculty “learning circles,” with the goal of creating successful academic minors in areas related to global citizenship. These minors may include any five from among the options of African studies, Asian studies, global commerce, global development and sustainability, global public health, Latin American studies and Middle Eastern studies. Full Story
Rhodes College’s NASA Stars program, which began in 2006, has been expanded, thanks to a $200,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-tration. The project is designed to enhance teaching and learning of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. Funding from the grant will be used to send 10 teachers and 270 students from Cypress Middle, Springdale Elementary and Snowden School (K-8) to Space Camp. This is a follow-up to the NASA Stars program in 2006-2007, when a generous grant from NASA allowed Rhodes to partner with these schools for this purpose. Full Story
Sherry Hamby, Research Associate Professor of Psychology at Sewanee: The University of the South, is one of the authors of a new study that finds that U.S. children are routinely exposed to even more violence and abuse than has been previously recognized, with nearly half experiencing a physical assault in the study year. The study was conducted by researchers at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire and the Department of Psychology at The University of the South. Full Story
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ACS and University of Georgia Partnership
As a part of its five-year partnership with the University of Georgia, 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 get in touch with Marcia White at the ACS office at
mwhite@colleges.org.
British Studies Symposium - February 26-27, 2010
Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
Latin American Studies Symposium - April 16-17, 2010
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop - May 31-June 5, 2010
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
NITLE Opportunities:
- Spatial Statistics, Part 2: Exploratory Data Analysis - February 9, 2010
- Using Technology to Teach Contemporary Political Conflicts - February 11, 2010
- Supporting Faculty Use of Video in the Curriculum - February 12, 2010
- Spatial Statistics, Part 3: Description & Prediction - February 16, 2010
- Open Notebook Science for Research and Teaching - February 18, 2010
- Technologies for Teaching Languages & Cultures - February 19, 2010
- Technologies for Teaching Writing - February 20, 2010
- Spatial Statistics, Part 4: Hypothesis Testing & Simulation February 23, 2010
- Teaching with Mobile Devices: Smartphones - February 24, 2010
- AfricaMap: Building & Teaching with Complex Online Maps - February 25, 2010
- Spatial Statistics, Part 5: Sampling - March 2, 2010
- Electronic Books - March 8, 2010
- Online Exam & Assessment Tools in Teaching Language - March 11, 2010
- NITLE Instructional Technology Leaders Conference - March 24-25, 2010
- NITLE Summit - March 25-26, 2010
- Augmented Reality’s First Educational Applications - April 12, 2010
- NITLE Camp - June 21, 2010
- Digital Storytelling Community Meeting - June 22, 2020
- Moodle Community Meeting - June 22, 2010
- Pedagogy of Mobile Devices - June 24, 2010
Winter 2010 Palladian -- our most recent newsletter (PDF)
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