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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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Millsaps College has received a $400,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to launch a new research program and establish the W.M. Keck Center for Instrumental and BioChemical Comparative Archeology. The center will support pioneering interdisciplinary research to explore complex archeological questions using bioanalytical and biochemical techniques. Full Story
Rhodes College received a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
to enable students to broaden connections between the classroom and the community with a focus on environmental policy. The three-year grant will strengthen environmental studies initiatives at Rhodes and fund three postdoctoral positions to help Rhodes expand its current Environmental Science program to Environmental Studies. Full Story
Southwestern University
has received $263,318 in government
funds that will be used to launch a new Center for Hispanic Studies. The center will be run in partnership with the National Hispanic Institute (NHI), which is based in Maxwell, Texas.
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Washington and Lee University named six juniors as the first recipients of the University’s new Student Summer Independent Research (SSIR) grants. Developed as a complement to Washington and Lee’s established R. E. Lee Scholars program, which promotes research by students and faculty during the Summer, the SSIR grants underwrite students on independent research and creative projects on their own, with faculty mentoring and supervision. Full Story
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 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Renewal Grants
Second deadline for pre-proposals - October 1, 2008
Second deadline for full proposals - January 15, 2009
Diversity
Global Partners Opportunity:
Environmental Programs Opportunities:
NITLE Opportunities:
- Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus, May 12, 2008
- Start an Institutional Repository Using DSpace, May 14, 2008
- Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants, May 15, 2008
- Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning, May 16, 2008
- Digital Video Production: Final Cut, May 20 - 22, 2008
- Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus, May 20, 2008
- Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom, May 21, 2008
- Manage Your Digital Content with DSpace, May 21, 2008
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Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning - May 27, 2008
- Introduction to Web Development, May 29 - 30, 2008
- Technologies for Teaching Writing, May 31, 2008
- Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges, June 2 - 4, 2008
- Digital Video Production with Windows Movie Maker, June 4 - 5, 2008
- Sunoikisis Seminar: Greek Lyric Poetry (ICAGR 392), June 9 - 12, 2008
- Sunoikisis Seminar: Literature from the Early Republic (ICLAT 391), June 9 - 12, 2008
- Al-Musharaka Summer Seminar: Border Crossings, June 10 - 13, 2008
- Sunoikisis Seminars, Virtual Collaboration Plenary Workshop, June 12 - 13, 2008
- Assessing Information Literacy and Fluency in the Context of the Liberal Arts Campus, June 16 - 17, 2008
- Start an Institutional Repository Using DSpace, June 18, 2008
- Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories, June 18 - 20, 2008
- Manage Your Digital Content with DSpace, June 25, 2008
- Start an Institutional Repository Using DSpace, July 16, 2008
- Manage Your Digital Content with DSpace, July 23, 2008
- Creativity across the Curriculum: The Role of Technology, October 3 - 5, 2008
- Shibboleth and Federated Identity Management, October 6 - 8, 2008
- Kuali Financial System User Community Meeting, October 9 - 10, 2008
- Expeditions in Scientific Visualization, October 16 - 18, 2008
- Real-Time Collaboration on the Liberal Arts Campus, October 19 - 21, 2008
- Service Learning and Social Justice Programs: The Role of Technology, October 24 - 26, 2008
- Internationalizing the Curriculum: the Role of Technology, November 7 - 9, 2008
Spring 2008 Palladian -- our most recent newsletter (PDF)
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