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In fall 2008, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation board awarded ACS $3.5 million to support 24 Post-doctoral Fellows in environmental studies between 2008 and 2013. This program provides a strong boost to environmental initiatives on the campuses and in the consortium.
A selection committee of three academic deans has been established to review institutional proposals. Deadline for 2011-2013 Fellows proposals is 5pm, September 24, 2010. Please click HERE for the 2011-2013 Request for Proposals.
 This August, John A. Roush, President of Centre College and Chair of the ACS Board of Directors, met with A. Stanley Meiburg, Acting Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4. Roush and Meiburg came together to officially sanction an agreement that was almost three years in the making. The sedate but festive event, hosted by Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, was attended by well wishers from the local community along with Centre students, faculty, and staff. After brief remarks by both signatories, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, questions were asked and answered, and refreshments were enjoyed.
The finalized MOU emphasizes collaboration between ACS and EPA Region 4 in several ways: through assistance to faculty with curriculum and pedagogy; by providing ACS students with opportunities for community service, undergraduate research, and student leadership; and through assistance to staff with physical plant and facilities issues. As part of the relationship, EPA will extend its expertise to ACS at conferences, workshops, and as visiting faculty; provide assistance to institutions regarding compliance issues; offer opportunities for students to present research at EPA conferences; allow ACS students to apply for internships; and assist students interested in EPA careers.
While only ten ACS institutions are located in Region 4,
all ACS colleges and universities will be able to share in collaborative experiences with EPA. For more information,
or to read the MOU, please contact Elizabeth MacNabb at emacnabb@colleges.org, or go to http://www.colleges.org/enviro/mou/ACS-EPA-MOU.pdf.
Thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the following Environmental Postdoc Fellows will be teaching at 12 ACS institutions, Fall 2009 through Spring 2011.
Centenary College of Louisiana
John Davenport (PhD 2008), University of Kentucky, cultural geography
Centre College
Brett Werner (PhD 2009), University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), rhetoric and scientific & technical communication
Davidson College
Julianne Mills (PhD 2009), Ohio State University, evolution, ecology, and organismal biology
Furman University
Amélie Davis (PhD 2009), Purdue University-West Lafayette, forestry and natural resources
Hendrix College
Jacques Pollini (PhD 2007), Cornell University, natural resources policies and management
Millsaps College
Jessica Piekielek (PhD 2009), University of Arizona, cultural anthropology
Rollins College
Valerie Peters (PhD 2009), University of Georgia, tropical ecology
Southwestern University
Daniel Thornton (PhD 2010), University of Florida (Gainesville), wildlife ecology and conservation
Spelman College
Shereitte Stokes IV (PhD 2009), Florida A & M University, environmental science/justice/health, policy & risk management
Trinity University
Gregory J. Hazleton (PhD 2008), Washington University-St. Louis, English and American literature
University of the South (Sewanee)
Daniel C. Carter (PhD 2008), University of Tennessee, political science
Washington and Lee University
Laura Henry-Stone (PhD 2009), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, sustainability education
The ACS Environmental Fellowship Program will help prepare new PhDs for successful careers as interdisciplinary teachers and scholars. Fellows will receive a rich, productive introduction to teaching and research in topnotch small college settings with high teacher-student ratios, mentored by some of the best liberal arts professors in the country.
For more information about mentoring, please see the ACS Guide for Mentors of Environmental Fellows.
The Sewanee Environmental Institute announces its summer field courses, open to all students in the Associated Colleges of the South. Three courses will be offered in either anthropology or biology. More information, as well as course requirements and online registration, may be found at Sewanee Environmental Institute. Faculty and students with questions should contact Program Coordinator Rachel Petropoulos,
rpetropo@sewanee.edu.
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The ACS Environmental Initiative, which ran from 1998 to 2008, encompassed environmental sustainability not only in academics, but in campus operations, campus-community partnerships, student development, and more. As we transition towards new Programs in Sustainability and the Environment, we reflect upon that highly successful ten-year program, which changed ACS campuses for the better. Evidence of its success is everywhere; most ACS institutions have made significant physical and cultural changes to emphasize “green” thinking. Because these changes have the potential to affect not only individuals at each campus but also an entire region of the country, we believe the overall impact of the ACSEI was much greater than the sum of its parts.
Clearly, ACSEI influenced ACS presidents who signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org). Equally clearly, ACS faculty and staff members now working to carry out Commitment requirements for their presidents are those very same faculty and staff who attended ACSEI conferences and workshops over the years, and who played key roles in ACSEI alliance and grant activities. With their help, the ACS Environmental Initiative had a profound impact on the lives of students, faculty and staff in our institutions, transforming them into effective environmental citizens. For more about ACSEI activities, please see Archived ACSEI Reports.
The past ten years were very productive for the ACS Environmental Initiative. Since 1998, we estimate that over 7000 ACS faculty, students, and staff, and several hundred members of the surrounding communities, were affected by the many projects and activities ACSEI sponsored or supported. Between 2001 and 2008, ACSEI supported 131 Faculty Fellows, 16 Facilities Fellows, 269 Student Interns, and 180 alliance members; awarded 232 grants to 294 recipients for a total of $456,768. For more information about ACSEI alliance grants, please see Successful Alliance Proposals, 2005-2008.
Since 1998, ACS Environmental Programs hosted or helped to support 42 workshops, conferences and symposia addressing various aspects of environmental citizenship. At little or no cost to the individual or to the campuses, these workshops gave over 1000 ACS faculty, students and staff an opportunity to learn about, be engaged in, and be motivated by their peers' environmental courses and research, by co-curricular environmental programs, and by the many environmental partnerships and projects that were created, implemented, and strengthened due to ACS alliance grants. For more about ACSEI activities, please see Archived ACSEI Reports, as well as a Brief Summary of ACS Accomplishments since 1998.”
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ACS - EPA MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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ACS is a member of AASHE
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ACS 10th Anniversary Trees
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In
honor of our tenth anniversary as a consortium, the ACS gave
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Participants at the 2006
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