Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest

Off-Campus Study

to establish educational technology centers in the Northeast, South, and Midwest

Centers Strategy

to support centers for educational technology in the Northeast, South, and Midwest

to support the technological needs of its member colleges as a financial plan is devised to sustain these services

Technology Services

to support the planning of a faculty career enhancement program that addresses the needs of faculty members at the consortium’s 16 colleges and universities

Faculty Career Enhancement Program

to support a review of information literacy programs run by ACS colleges

Information Literacy Assessment

to promote cooperation and collaboration among liberal arts colleges

Consortial Support

to support teaching collaboration between liberal arts colleges and research universities

Collaboration Between ACS and Research Universities

to support an initiative that expands training in inclusive pedagogy and collaborative instruction

Collaborative and Inclusive Faculty Advancement

to support diversity and inclusion-based initiatives

A Diversity and Inclusion Planning Grant

to support efforts to strengthen existing study-abroad programs through increased collaboration

Global Partners

to support the operation of the technology center

Centers Strategy 

to support efforts to strengthen the role of the library on liberal arts college campuses

Libraries

to support an exploration of possible collaborations with the Foundation of Tertiary Institutions in the Northern Metropolis in the areas of environmental studies, women’s and gender studies, and technology

Inter-Consortia Collaboration

toward support of a central consortial technology center and the development of two virtual programs in classics and archaeology

Educational Effectiveness

to support the cost-effective use of technology in teaching

to explore the cost-effective use of technology in teaching

Technology Action Plans

to support programs that seek to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina Response

to support the implementation of an Academic Leadership Fellows program among member institutions

Academic Leadership Fellows

to support programs at two member institutions, Centenary College of Louisiana and Millsaps College, that seek to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Katrina - New Orleans Response

to continue support for the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions

Academic Leadership Fellows: Phase II

Faculty Advancement

in support of efforts to identify new areas of collaboration among member institutions

Membership Collaboration

in support of planning activities for library collaboration among ACS institutions

Library Collaboration

to establish an endowment in support of administrative operations that serve academic programs, and to assist with current operating costs

Consortium Endowment

in support of an electronic library for ACS institutions designed to produce significant cost-savings and improved access to library materials

Electronic Library

to support an evaluation of a joint distance education program in classics

Virtual Classics Program

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

to further develop the virtual classics and archaeology program

Virtual Classics and Archeology 

New Presidents

Bridge Funds

to support existing environmental studies programs

to support a collaborative environmental studies program

to support faculty career enhancement programs

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the South

for use of The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, The Newberry Library, to support the Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities

Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities

to support collaborative initiatives in the humanities

Collaborations Among Liberal Arts Colleges and CIC Universities

to support a review of information literacy programs run by ACM colleges

Information Literacy

to support programs that educate faculty on the economic challenges facing liberal arts colleges and their effects on institutional decision-making

Institute on College Futures

Academic Leadership Fellows 

in support of the Program for Minority Students and Academic Careers

Minority Students - Academic Careers

to establish an endowment in support of administrative operations that serve academic programs

in support of its Program for Minority Students and Academic Careers

Minority Students - Summer Research

to support summer seminars to engage faculty from the humanities, arts, sciences, and social sciences around contemporary, cross-disciplinary topics

Liberal Arts Faculty Seminars

to support programs in information literacy and collaborative collections management

Strategic Planning

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 