CONTENTS FOR MARCH 24, 2008
OPPORTUNITIES:
- Job Search for Director of Chinese Studies
- Environmental Grants Available
- Grants for Mellon Faculty and Institutional Renewal
- ACS Chief Financial Officers Meeting
- ACS Women's/Genders Studies Conference Planning Meeting
- NITLE Opportunities
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OPPORTUNITIES
1. JOB SEARCH FOR DIRECTOR OF CHINESE STUDIES
The consortium is searching for a director to lead and coordinate the new ACS initiative on Chinese Studies, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Information is available from Dara Hawkins at dara@colleges.org.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS AVAILABLE
End of spring semester is the final deadline for Alliance minigrants. Curriculum and Faculty Development Alliance has already awarded all of its funds, but the Student Development and Engagement Alliance and the Campus-Community Partnership Alliance continue to seek your proposals for environmental projects including service learning and other community partnerships, environmental justice activities, student teaching assistants, and internal or external internships. RFPs are online at http://www.colleges.org/enviro/index.html. To see previous years' successful proposals, please to to http://www.colleges.org/enviro/proposals/past_proposals.html. For more information, contact Elizabeth MacNabb, emacnabb@colleges.org, Kathleen Green Rossman, krossmann@bsc.edu or Laura Hobgood-Oster, hoboster@southwestern.edu.
3. GRANTS FOR MELLON FACULTY AND INSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL
ACS is offering new grants in faculty and institutional renewal, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the next round of grants, pre-proposals are due on October 1, 2008. For those pre-proposals that are approved, final proposals will be due on January 15, 2009. We encourage you to read the various materials and consider preparing a proposal for consideration. We are accepting proposals for individual and collaborative projects at one institution or across several ACS institutions. Visit the website at http://www.colleges.org/faculty_renewal/index.html to view the guidelines and selection criteria and to download the required cover page. If you have further questions about the program or process, please contact Marcia White at mwhite@colleges.org.
4. ACS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS
ACS Chief Financial Officers are holding their annual meeting March 26-28th at the University of Richmond. Please contact Mary Dillon at mdillon@richmond.edu for details.
5. ACS WOMEN'S GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING
ACS Women's Gender Studies Conference Planning Committee is meeting April 4 & 5 at Rhodes College. If you would like to participate in the planning of the ACS 2009 Women's Gender Studies conference, contact mwhite@colleges.org or lpetty@rhodes.edu.
6. NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERAL EDUCATION (NITLE) OPPORTUNITIES
For opportunities available through NITLE, please go to: http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/opportunities.
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