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CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 26, 2008


NEWS

ACS Receives $3.5 Million Grant for Environmental Studies

OPPORTUNITIES

1. Grants for Mellon Faculty and Institutional Renewal
2. ACS Women's Gender Studies Conference
3. ACS Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop
4. British Studies Symposium
5. Latin American Studies Symposium
6. NITLE Opportunities

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NEWS

ACS RECEIVES $3.5 MILLION GRANT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation board has awarded ACS $3.5 million to support 24 post-doctoral fellows in environmental studies over the next four years. The program should provide a strong boost to the environmental initiatives on the campuses and in the consortium. Guidelines for the program are currently being prepared. We will have an RFP posted online soon, and a selection committee will be established to review proposals. The plan is for the first Environmental Postdoc Fellows to appear on campuses by Fall 2009. Questions should be directed to Elizabeth MacNabb, emacnabb@colleges.org.


OPPORTUNITIES

1.    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.

2.    ACS WOMEN'S GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE

A call for proposals is being out for the Women's Gender Studies Conference, which is set for March 6-7, 2009 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.  The theme is “The Personal is Still Political: Gendered Identities in the Twenty-First Century,” and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Angela Davis, professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Please help us make this an extraordinary event by advertising it on your campuses, sharing this Call For Papers with your undergraduates and colleagues,  and encouraging them to participate.   

For more information, please visit ACS’s conference site: www.colleges.org/wms/conference/index.html. Rhodes will have its own website devoted to the conference by October 1:  www.rhodes.edu/genderconference.  

Please don’t hesitate to contact Leslie Petty (pettyl@rhodes.edu) with questions or comments.  We hope to see many of you in Memphis in March for what promises to be an exciting conference!

3.    ACS SUMMER TEACHING AND LEARNING WORKSHOP
 
The ACS Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop is scheduled for June 1-6, 2009 at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.  The workshop is designed for good teachers who want to hone their craft and build a culture of excellent teaching on their respective campuses.  If you are interested in attending this year's workshops, please contact your academic dean or provost who then nominate you for participation.  ACS will notify faculty members of their participation by March 1.  If you would like more information, please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.colleges.org/summerteach/summerteach.html.

4.   BRITISH STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

The seventh annual conference on British Studies will be held on March 6-7, 2009 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.  Director Michael Leslie asks faculty to encourage their students to offer papers of about 12 minutes in length on subjects to do with Britain, its history and culture.  Information on the conference maybe obtained from Michael Leslie at LESLIE@rhodes.edu.

5.  LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

The 17th annual Latin American Symposium, hosted by Birmingham-Southern College will be held on April 17-18, 2009.  The interdisciplinary conference aim to promote undergraduate research focussed on Latin America.  All topics pertaining to Latin America are welcome.  The presentations should be 15 minutes in length.  All participants need to register for the conference; the registration fee is $20. Panel/paper proposals should be sent to:  Dr. Barbara Domcekova, Director, Latin American Studies Symposium, Birmingham-Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham, AL  35254, Phone:  (205) 226-4975, Fax:  (205) 226-3089.  Proposals may also be submitted online at http://www.bsc.edu/academics/las/. 

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/the_institute/upcoming_events..

 
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