CONTENTS for November 18, 2004

NEWS

1. Environmental Programs Grants Announced
2. ACS Presentations at College Music Society and Association for Technology in Music Instruction
3. ACS Presenters Contribute to Showcase at NITLE Conference

OPPORTUNITIES

1. Environmental Programs Opportunities
2. Global Partners Opportunities
3. Latin American Symposium
4. Teaching and Learning Workshop Dates Announced
5. Composers of Internet2 (CI2): A Technology-Enabled Composition Contest

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NEWS

1.    ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS GRANTS ANNOUNCED

** Six Student Development and Engagement Alliance grants go to Birmingham-Southern College; Centre College; Davidson College; Rhodes College; the University of Richmond; the University of the South, Sewanee; and Trinity University. For more information, please click: http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/proposals/SDEawards.pdf

** Four Curriculum and Faculty Development Alliance grants go to Birmingham-Southern College; Centenary College, and Morehouse College. For more information, please click:
http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/proposals/CFDawards.pdf
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2.    ACS PRESENTATIONS AT COLLEGE MUSIC SOCIETY AND ASSOCIATION FOR TECHNOLOGY IN MUSIC INSTRUCTION

Among the ACS presenters at this year's conferences in San Francisco Nov. 4-7 were: Prof. Courtenay Harter (Rhodes): "Teaching Cadences: A Study of Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas";
Prof. Timothy Kramer (Trinity): Performance of "Mosaics";
Laura Daigle (Centenary '05) and Patricia Gray (ACSTC): Using Flash Animation to Enhance Structural Analysis of Contemporary Compositions.
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3.    ACS PRESENTERS CONTRIBUTE TO SHOWCASE AT NITLE CONFERENCE

At the November 7-9 NITLE Conference (www.nitle.org/conference.php) over 35 NITLE and regional center projects were demonstrated in concurrent sessions by faculty and staff, including numerous ACS presenters.

Hal Haskell, Professor of Classics, Southwestern University, "Classics Collaboration across Campuses, or Weaving Penelope's Tapestry"

Eric Jansson, Assistant Director for Systems and Development, ACS Technology Center, presenting Course Delivery Software in a session on Open Source Learning Management Tools for Liberal Arts Colleges

Carol Ekstrom, Instructor of Geology, Rhodes College, "Integrating GIS into the Liberal Arts Curriculum" in a session on GIS Across the Curriculum, Part I

Eric Jansson, Assistant Director for Systems and Development, ACS Technology Center, and Mark Garrison, Professor of Art History, Trinity University,"Archaeology Data System: Choma" in a session on New Approaches to Managing and Accessing Data

Patricia Gray, Instructional Technology Specialist, ACS Technology Center, and Laura Daigle, Student Composer, Centenary College of Louisiana, "The ACS Orpheus Alliance" in a session titled, "In Concert: Collaborative Development of Resources in Music"

Kathy Monday, Vice-President Information Services, University of Richmond, in a panel on "The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and NITLE"

Laurie J. Heyer, L. Richardson King Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College, "Working MAGIC in Genomics and Bioinformatics Education" in a session on Exploring Bioinformatics

Rebecca Davis, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology, ACS Technology Center, Michael Higgs, Associate Professor of Mathematics/Computer Science, Austin College, and
Binaya Poudyal, Student, Austin College, "Software Engineering Program"

Eric Jansson, Assistant Director for Systems and Development, ACS Technology Center, "Fedora" in a session on Open Source Partnerships

Jeff Overholtzer, Director of Technology Education, Washington and Lee University, "REALIA" in a session on Teaching with Digital Images

Suzanne Bonefas, Director of ACS Technology Programs, and Bob Johnson, Vice President for Information Services at Rhodes College helped lead a panel on strategic approaches to cost containment.

For a summary of the conference, please visit: http://www.nitle.org/.

OPPORTUNITIES

1.    ACS ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS OPPORTUNITIES

**Mark your calendars to attend the ACS Environmental Summit in Atlanta, February 11-13, 2005. For more information, click on  Environmental Summit at Morehouse College.   Online registration is free at http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/workshops/registration04.html

** Now recruiting faculty, students, and staff who have never attended an ACS environmental conference!  For a complete description of the conference, please go to: http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/workshops/envirosummit.pdf


** Environmental Summit Keynote Speaker is Morehouse alumnus George Bandy II (please click on link for a complete bio).
http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/workshops/Bandy_bio.pdf
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2.    GLOBAL PARTNERS OPPORTUNITIES

**France Regional Alliance Offers Mini-grants for curriculum development and funding for campus speakers. Deadlines: December 1, 2004 and March 1, 2005. More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/alliances/france/minigrants.html and http://www.global-partners.org/alliances/france/speakergrants.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: April 15, 2005.  More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/cerus/ivp.html

**Central Europe and Russia Task Force offers faculty travel grants for Summer 2005 and fall 2005. Deadline: February 15, 2005. More information at: http://www.global-partners.org/cerus/travelapp.html

**Turkey Task Force offers travel grants and funding for the CIEE faculty development seminar. Deadline: February 15, 2005. More information: http://www.global-partners.org/turkey/

**Travel Grants for East Africa available. More information:
http://www.global-partners.org/africa/2005/grantinfo.html

**Global Partners Semester in Turkey Program for students. Students study the culture and history of Turkey and participate in a 7-day field trip in Western Turkey. The fall 2005 program will be led by Dr. Tom McCollough of Centre College. To receive printed materials for distribution to your students, contact Teresa Wise at twise@colleges.org. Visit the website for more information at: http://www.global-partners.org/turkey/studyabroad/ and view our online PowerPoint presentation by clicking "Slideshow" from the website.
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3.    LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

Mark your calendars now for the 13th Annual Latin American Studies Symposium to be held at Birmingham-Southern College April 8-9, 2005. The LAS Symposium is an undergraduate interdisciplinary research conference providing students the opportunity to present original research papers. Faculty are invited to serve as panel chairs and discussants. We invite submissions of abstracts for 15 minute presentations in English, Spanish or Portuguese. The abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.bsc.edu/lass (click on the LAS Symposium link) and they must reach us by January 31, 2005. Please note there is a registration fee of $20.00 to help cover the meals at the conference. Contact Barbara Domcekova at Birmingham-Southern (Phone: 205 226-4975; Email: bdomceko@bsc.edu) or Teresa Wise at ACS (twise@colleges.org) for more information.
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4.    TEACHING AND LEARNING WORKSHOP DATES ANNOUNCED

The dates for this year's ACS Teaching and Learning Workshop are June 7-12, 2005.  Held each year at Rollins College in Winter Park FL, the workshop is designed for good teachers who want to become even better. Both senior and junior faculty from all disciplines will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their teaching, trade ideas and techniques, explore the  interrelationships between teaching styles and student learning styles, and discuss the many pedagogical issues we face in the liberal arts environment.

If you are interested in attending this year's workshop, please contact your academic dean or provost who will then nominate you for participation. We will be notifying faculty members of their participation by early March. If you would like more information, please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.colleges.org/summerteach/summerteach.html.
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5.    COMPOSERS OF INTERNET2 (CI2): TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED COMPOSITION CONTEST

Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education invite young composers to participate in an exciting new competition. This inaugural "call for compositions" seeks works for unaccompanied cello in celebration of Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Wheaton's new president and cellist. Prof. Craig Hultgren, Birmingham-Southern cellist and activist for new music, will perform and record all the winning works. For complete information see: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/IT_S/internet2/CI2/


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