Associated
Colleges of the South > Newsletters > E- Palladian |
|||
 |
|||
|
|
|
||
The Electronic Palladian News and Opportunities for ACS Faculty and Staff From the Associated Colleges of the South http://www.colleges.org *******************************************************
CONTENTS for October 12, 2001
1. ACS RECEIVES NEW GRANT FROM MELLON FOR TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS We are happy to report that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved our request for $1.7 million for ongoing technology programs. The new grant will enable the ACS Technology Center at Southwestern University to continue to serve our member institutions, as well as to work with two other regional Centers (Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College and the new Midwestern Instructional Technology Center in Ann Arbor) as part of the new National Institute of Technology and Liberal Education established by the Foundation. For more information about ACS Technology Programs, please visit our home page at http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/. -------------------- ACS is exploring ways to alleviate the shortage of graduate-level expertise in all core areas of the computer science curriculum. In particular, schools with a handful of computer science faculty may benefit from the expertise of their colleagues in order to offer core and elective computer science courses such as computer ethics, computer architecture, operating systems and networking, intelligent systems, database, software engineering, computer graphics and multimedia, concurrency and distributed systems, and human computer interface. If you are interested in pursuing ways computer science faculty may collaborate on such courses and/or have an interest in attending a possible ACS-funded planning meeting in 2002, please contact Suzanne Buchele (bucheles@southwestern.edu) or Barbara Owens (owensb@southwestern.edu). Computer science faculty of ACS schools can also expect a survey to be sent in the near future that addresses potential interest in this project. --------------------- ACS continues to accept applications for our November 15-18 workshop (arrive on Thursday, November 15; depart Sunday, November 18) at the ACS Technology Center at Southwestern University. The workshop will concentrate on bandwidth management issues, video streaming, and long-term planning for technical collaboration among ACS institutions. IT Personnel from all member ACS institutions are invited to participate. ACS covers your cost of travel (using our travel agency), tuition, room, and food while attending the conference for ACS members. In the streaming video portion of the program, participants will learn details of server setup, cost of operation, comparative costs and features of Quicktime and Real Server, and problems likely encountered during broadcasts. Perhaps most importantly, participants will learn how to access and use the ACS Technology Center's streaming video server. This should tie in nicely with our bandwidth discussion, which will cover bandwidth-monitoring tools, bandwidth policy issues (and solutions), and infrastructure. The long-term planning session will initiate programs to encourage collaboration throughout the year. This part of the program will result in the appointment of an electronic newsletter editorial board, a FAQ development team, and web advisory group. As in past meetings, there will be time for brainstorming and informal discussion. For additional information and updates, visit http://www.colleges.org/~support. -------------------- ACS is pleased to announce a second call for proposals from ACS members for collaborative projects in the area of information fluency. We are interested in hearing from ACS faculty as well as computing, library and other staff members. Our goals for the projects include:
-------------------- Global Partners, a tri-consortial project involving ACS, along with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, is offering the following faculty development opportunities: 1. Seminar in Russia. This is an interdisciplinary seminar, with the theme "Narratives and Boundaries: Transitions in Southern Russia and Its Environs." The seminar takes place June 24-July 8, 2002. The seminar is designed for both non-specialists and specialists in Russian studies with a variety of curricular and scholarly interests who wish to develop or strengthen a curricular or research project related to Russia, focusing on the southern region and its newly independent neighbors. Hurry--applications are due October 15, 2001! More information: http://www.global-partners.org/cerus/russem02.html. Contact Daniel Sack, dsack@acm.edu, 312/263-5000. 2. Seminar in Turkey. This seminar is offered through the Council on International Educational Exchange and is entitled "Economics, Polity, and Religion in Turkey." The seminar takes place June 9-20, 2002, and focuses on Turkey's unique role as a modern secular Muslim nation, a NATO member and a vital U.S. ally. Applications are due February 1, 2002. More information: http://www.global-partners.org/turkey/seminar02.html. Contact Teresa Wise, twise@colleges.org, 404/636-9533, ext. 19. ---------------------- ACS is pleased to announce that the 5th Biennial Women's Studies Conference will be held at Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) on April 12-13, 2002. The theme of the conference is "Gender Studies/Women's Studies; Separate But Equal?" The keynote speaker is Dr. Oyeronke Oyewumi, author of "The Invention of Women." We invite academic papers and panels, creative performances and pieces, and panels related to student life issues and gender. We would like to emphasize the importance of involving students from across ACS at this conference and therefore encourage faculty to mentor their students in preparation for participation at the conference. Student travel funding is available. Proposals may be submitted through the website: http://www.colleges.org/~wms/2002/conf02.html. For more information or to get involved, please contact Allison Shutt, shutt@mercury.hendrix.edu or Leslie Templeton, templeton@mercury.hendrix.edu. ---------------------- Call for papers The Latin American Studies Program at Birmingham-Southern College invites proposals for panels and individual papers from outstanding undergraduate students. Papers on any topic pertaining to Latin America will be considered. The official language of the symposium is English, but papers in Spanish and Portuguese will also be accepted. Faculty members accompanying their students are invited to serve as panel chairs and discussants. To propose a paper, please send a single-page abstract, along with a short and clearly stated title, to the symposium director. The program committee will review the proposals. Attach an information sheet with your name, institution, current mailing address, e-mail and telephone number. Deadline: Abstracts must be received no later than January 31, 2002. Please send abstracts to Barbara Domcekova, Director, Latin American Studies Symposium, Birmingham-Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham, AL 35254, phone (205) 226-4975, fax (205) 226-3078, e-mail: bdomceko@bsc.edu. ----------------------- In the spring and summer 2002 semesters the ACS Archaeology Program will again offer the opportunity for ACS students and faculty to participate in the 1 hour collaborative course and summer archaeological practicum in Turkey. As in the past, in order for students to go to Turkey, they must successfully complete the 1 hour collaborative course in the spring. The course will take place each Tuesday at 3:00-4:00 pm Central Time. The summer archaeological practicum (worth five hours of credit) will take place sometime in June-early August 2002. Exact dates will be announced before the December break. For more information, please see http://www.colleges.org/~turkey/hm2002_announce.html. Faculty with interested students should immediately contact Dr. Halford Haskell, Coordinator of Sunoikisis, haskell@southwestern.edu. ----------------------- ALIANCO, ACS's collaborative program in modern languages, is combining
its energy and expertise with that of two other consortia (Associated
Colleges of the Midwest and Great Lakes Colleges Association) and the
Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury to create a multi-media
archive to serve the needs of our modern language faculty community and
other appropriate disciplines. In order to better plan and design this
database we are asking for your opinions and ideas. If these are topics
that interest you, we would greatly appreciate your input and completion
of our short 11 question survey at http://pixie.cet.middlebury.edu/survey/index.php.
It will be a great help to the Project Task Force if you complete the
survey by October 12, 2001. The project coordinator is Jeff Overholtzer,
Technology Communications Specialist from Washington and Lee University.
We are very pleased that Jeff has agreed to assume this role, and you
may address questions about the project to him at joverholtzer@wlu.edu.
To find out more about --------------------- The ACS Technology Circuit Rider program funds visits to ACS campuses by ACS faculty or staff members with technology expertise. We now offer two types of events under this program: flexible "consultations" and workshops with a set agenda. "Consultations" can be tailored to the needs of the institution making the invitation. For example, they may take the form of general demonstrations about jfocused on a specific application or academic field, a series of tutorials, or any combination of these. ACS will cover the visitors' travel expenses and lodging if necessary. If you are interested in being a "Circuit Rider" or in having someone visit your campus, please contact Leslie Lindsey at the ACS Technology Center, leslie@colleges.org or 512-863-1603. -------------------- The DTC initiative is looking for collaborators and contributors for the creation of modules pertaining to DTC. A module is a focused, interactive learning unit relevant to DTC that would be publicly available to faculty, staff, and students at all ACS schools. A module should have no prerequisites required for the understanding of the material, and must be interactive, including for example quizzes and/or tutorials. It is possible that a module could spring from and mobilize existing materials and practices used in particular classes, although modules are intended to have interdisciplinary applicability. In addition, we also want to know what kinds of modules germane to DTC you would find most useful to incorporate in your courses regardless of your discipline. For example, modules proposed by the DTC planning committee include Cybercopyright Issues, Digital Narrative, History of the Internet, France and Information Technology, Tolerance and Free Speech on the Internet , and Introduction to GIS. Any faculty and staff interested in developing or suggesting modules should contact Bryan Alexander, balexand@centenary.edu. For more information visit http://www.colleges.org/~dtc/. -------------------- We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth MacNabb, formerly Director of Academic Service Learning at University of Richmond, has joined ACS as Director of Environmental Programs. Elizabeth has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Stony Brook, a postdoc in Writing from Illinois State University, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of West Florida. Her avocation as an avid environmentalist, combined with her research interests in environmental literature, supplements Elizabeth's background as a teacher of humanities courses at the college level. At ACS she will provide leadership for our exciting new Environmental Alliances, as well as Faculty Fellows and Student Interns. She is based at the University of Richmond. Contact Elizabeth at emacnabb@colleges.org or (804) 289-8686. ******************************************************* The Electronic Palladian is sent several times a semester to all faculty and staff at ACS member institutions. All announcements are approved by ACS. For more information about this newsletter, please contact Christiane Williams at christiane@colleges.org. If you know of ACS faculty or staff members who are not receiving this and would like to, they may request to be added to the list by sending email to majordomo@colleges.org with the message 'subscribe palladian' (without the quotation marks). You may remove yourself from the list by sending the message 'unsubscribe palladian' to the same address.
|
|||
Comments to www@colleges.org |
|||
| This page updated on 9/24/09 |  |
||
| © Associated Colleges of the South 1975 Century Blvd. Suite 10 Atlanta GA 30345 | |||
 |
 |
|
|