Have a great Summer!

CONTENTS FOR MAY 18, 2005

NEWS

1. 2005 Music Composition Winners Announced

OPPORTUNITIES

1. Transformations:  Call for Papers for Summer 2005 issue
2. Deadlines Announced for Science Reform Course Mini-Grants
3. Space Still Available for ACSTC Summer 2005 Workshops
4. Global Partners Opportunities
5. Planning Grant for Study Abroad Assessment
6. Women's/Gender Studies Conference 2006

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NEWS

1.  2005 MUSIC COMPOSITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED

We are pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual ACSTC Student Music Composition Contest:

First Place:
Andrew Drannon (Rhodes College, student of Brandon Goff) PROVIDENCE MATRIX (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion)

Second Place:
David Kottwitz (Rhodes College, student of Brandon Goff) RHUMA SULFA (Bb clar. solo)

Third Place:
Erika Pipkin (Birmingham-Southern College, student of Charles Mason) THE LABYRINTH (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, snare drum)

Their works will be performed by Luna Nova (www.lunanova.org) at the ACSTC New Music Festival to be held at Birmingham-Southern College July 27-August 1, 2005.  Winners also received cash awards and will be given professional recordings.
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OPPORTUNITIES

1.  TRANSFORMATIONS:  CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SUMMER 2005 ISSUE

Transformations, Volume III, Issue #1 (Summer, 2005) will be dedicated to the theme of collaboration. This theme encompasses collaborations both within and beyond the institution. A particular area of interest is alliances among faculty, librarians and technologists, and formal or informal organizational structures that promote relationships among these constituencies. How has the "merged organization" promoted (or not) meaningful collaboration on liberal arts campuses? Have consortial organizations changed the way colleagues work together? What are the lessons we can learn from successful collaborations? Have they (or should they have) changed the way we work in liberal arts colleges?

We welcome papers from technologists, librarians, faculty and administrators addressing these topics. For more information and a listing of authors guidelines, please see http://www.colleges.org/transformations/index.php?q=node/view/31.

Deadline for submission is May 31, 2005.

Please send submissions to the co-editors, Bob Johnson (Rhodes Colleges), johnsonb@rhodes.edu and Terry Metz (Wheaton College), tmetz@wheatoncollege.edu.
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2.    DEADLINES ANNOUNCED FOR SCIENCE REFORM COURSE MINI-GRANTS

There are two more opportunities to submit proposals for course mini-grants under the ACS Reform of Introductory Science Courses for Non-Science Majors Program, which is funded by a grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles. The first submission deadline is October 14, 2005, for a January 1-December 15, 2006 award period. The second deadline is March 15, 2006 for the May 1, 2006-May 1, 2007 award period.

Submission guidelines are posted online at http://www.colleges.org/sciencereform/minigrants.html

Contact Beth Bowser, bowser@colleges.org, for additional information.
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3.   SPACE AVAILABLE IN ACSTC SUMMER 2005 WORKSHOPS

There are a few places left for 3 ACSTC workshops: Planning Learning Objects, Learning Object Technology and XML for Teaching and Research.  For more information on the workshops, please see http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/workshop/workshops.html.  To register, please complete our online registration form at http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/workshop/application2005_sum.html.  For more information, please contact Rebecca Davis at rdavis@colleges.org.
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4.    GLOBAL PARTNERS OPPORTUNITIES


**The Language and Technology Task Force offers funding for attendance at CARLA (Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition) Summer Institutes in July 2005: 1) Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom; 2) Developing Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages and 3) Maximizing Study Abroad: Teaching Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use. Deadline: May 31, 2005. More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/langtech/CARLAfunding.html.

**Join the Global Partners Francophone Speakers Bureau and share your teaching and research expertise with other Global Partners campuses. For more information contact Teresa Wise at twise@colleges.org. Visit the France Regional Alliance webpage to see more about the work of this group: http://www.global-partners.org/alliances/france/index.html.

**Central Europe and Russia Task Force offers funding for International Visitors. Deadline: Rolling; but visit and travel must be completed by Dec. 31, 2005. More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/cerus/ivp.html.

**This summer (June 16-18, 2005) Birmingham-Southern College will host a Global Partners Symposium on "Defining Reorientation for the Study Abroad Student and the Institution." More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/bestprac/reorientation.html.

**Also, this summer (August 4-5, 2005) a Best Practices Workshop on liberal arts and  international education takes place at Southwestern University.  More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/bestprac/libarts.html.
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5.    PLANNING GRANT FOR STUDY ABROAD ASSESSMENT

ACS, along with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) and the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), is the recipient of a planning grant from the Teagle Foundation for examining Learning Outcomes and STudy Abroad.  The grant provides funding to develop a project to assess varying models of study abroad programs for students a liberal arts colleges and to measure the learning outcomes of such programs.  Contact Teresa Wise, twise@colleges.org, for more information and to get involved.
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6    WOMEN'S/GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2006

Plan now to attend the ACS 2006 Women's/Gender Studies Conference at Centenary College.  It's not too early to plan your attendance at the conference and to start mentoring your students' presentations.

Dates:  March 24-25, 2006 Theme: Governing Bodies: Reflections on the Self, Society and the State Organizers: Kim VanHoosier-Carey, kvanhoos@centenary.edu and Michelle Wolkomir, mwolkomi@centenary.edu Contact Kim, Michelle or Teresa Wise at ACS, twise@colleges.org to get involved.

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