Dear Friends, Everyone at ACS sends you bright and festive Season's Greetings. We hope your holidays are restful, joyful, and filled with the blessing of sharing time with family and friends. As always, we have enjoyed working with all of you during the past year and look forward to 2001 as a year of continued achievement and innovation for our institutions and the consortium. Thank you for all your efforts and best wishes to each of you!

--The ACS Staff

CONTENTS for December 14, 2000

1. Global Partners Programs: Questions, Answers and Opportunities
2. Washington and Lee Joins Forces with St. Andrews in Scotland
3. Environmental Program News
4. Spring/Summer 2001 Technology Fellows Selected
5. Summer 2001 Technology Workshops Announced
6. ACS Applies for Planning Grant for Next Phase of Technology Center
7. ALIANCO Planning Meeting at University of Richmond in April
8. Symposium on Information Fluency to be Held in February
9. Arkansas Governor's School Seeks Faculty for Summer 2001

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GLOBAL PARTNERS PROGRAMS: QUESTIONS, ANSWERS AND OPPORTUNITIES

QUESTION #1: Which major world leader made the following statement: "Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people."?
* ANSWER: No, neither of the U.S. presidential contenders, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Republic of Turkey
* OPPORTUNITY: Global Partners Study Abroad Program. ACS students now have the chance to learn more about modern Turkish culture and politics, as well as its ancient history, by studying in Turkey with the Global Partners Semester in Turkey Program. The program starts in the Fall of 2001. Students can witness first hand Turkey's position as a diverse, modern, secular, and heavily Western oriented society. They will have the chance to study a full range of disciplines from archeology to zoology at two of Turkey's premier universities, where all instruction is in English. Please encourage your students to apply now for this exciting study abroad opportunity; applications are due February 15, 2001. More information at: http://www.41colleges.org/turkey/studyabroad/

QUESTION #2: What major religious holiday started on November 27?
* ANSWER: Ramadan (called Ramazan in Turkey), the holy ninth month of the Muslim calendar, a time of fasting and prayer
* OPPORTUNITY: Global Partners Faculty Development Seminar: Learn more about the religion, politics, and economics of Turkey through the Global Partners faculty development seminar in Turkey. The seminar "Economics, Polity, and Religion in Turkey," will take place June 10-21, 2001. The seminar fee and expenses will be covered for successful applicants. Applications are due February 1, 2001. More information at: http://www.41colleges.org/turkey/seminar.html

QUESTION #3: Which African country celebrated its national independence day on December 12?
* ANSWER: Kenya, which this year marks 37 years of independence
* OPPORTUNITY: Global Partners Faculty Development Seminar and Travel Grants. The second interdisciplinary faculty seminar in Kenya, "East Africa in Transition: Identities, Images, and Institutions," will take place June 23-July 6, 2001. Applications are sought from faculty in any discipline, at any professional rank, and with any level of expertise or experience. Applications are due January 26, 2001. Independent travel grants are also now available for study in East Africa. More information and applications for both the seminar and travel grants at: http://www.41colleges.org/africa/

Questions about any of these Global Partners opportunities? Contact Teresa Wise, twise@colleges.org, 404.636.9533.

WASHINGTON AND LEE JOINS FORCES WITH ST. ANDREWS IN SCOTLAND

Washington and Lee University and the University of St. Andrews have joined forces in a cooperative venture to enable pre-med students to complete required studies in a manner acceptable to the American Medical College Application Service while still enjoying the benefits of a quality study abroad experience. Students will have an opportunity to spend a fall term at one of Britain's finest universities, St. Andrews in Scotland.

Students will take an Organic Chemistry course designed by Washington and Lee faculty and will receive direct credit on a W&L transcript. In addition to other science and humanities courses, the program offers non-credit observational visits in clinical settings. Qualified students from all ACS schools are invited to apply. For more information contact: Dr. William Klingelhofer, Director of International Education, wklingel@wlu.edu, 540.463.8145.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM NEWS

The ACS Environmental Program is preparing a winter edition of the Environmental Citizen to be distributed January, 2001. If your campus has an ACS-sponsored environmental initiative that you would like to see featured in the newsletter, please send your article to Damon Waitt, waittd@colleges.org, by Friday, December 15th. News clippings and photos are also welcome.

Monthly Environmental Intern reports for October and November and pictures from the Student Environmental Leadership Training Workshop are available online at http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/students. Does anyone know the identity of the intern in the last photo?

Finally, for those of you who were not able to attend as well as for those who were, a report from the second Sustainable Campus Development Clinic is available online at http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/workshops/SCDCII.html

SPRING/SUMMER 2001 TECHNOLOGY FELLOWS SELECTED

ACS is pleased to announce the selection of the Spring/Summer 2001 ACS Technology Fellowship recipients. Fellows receive a $2500 stipend, in return for creating technology-based teaching or research materials that can be shared with colleagues both at the home campus and across the consortium. In addition to creating these materials, each Fellow will write a brief report intended to assist colleagues who may wish to make use of their materials, or develop a similar project. We hope that the existence of such documented projects will benefit not only the Fellows and their students, but other faculty members interested in making use of technology who may not have the time or resources to devote to "starting from scratch."

The new Fellows are Bryan Alexander, Jeffrey C. Barnett, Mario Belloni, Larry Cain, Wolfgang Christian, Michael E. Dorcas, Paula Garrett, Patricia Gray, William W. Johnston, John Kaltner, Anne Leen, Richard Letteri, Barbara Lom, Alex McAllister, Robert A. Morgan, Samuel J. Pezzillo, Vadim Ponomarenko, Margaret G. Richey and Mark E. Rush. Please visit http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/Fellowships/grants/fellows01_announce.html to read more about their projects.

SUMMER 2001 TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS ANNOUNCED

ACS will offer the following workshops at the Technology Center in Summer, 2001:

*June 4-8: Classics Seminar & Course planning session led by Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College)
*June 13-17: "Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material" led by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)
*June 28-July 3: "Web Site Production with Macromedia Tools and Javascript" led by Jim Purser (Millsaps College) and Kevin Treu (Furman University)
*July 11-15: "Providing Technical Support at a Small Liberal Arts Institution" led by Pat Ramsey (Southwestern University)
*July 18-22: "Providing Web Access to Databases" led by Tom Whaley (Washington and Lee)
*July 26-30: "Effective Use of Technology in the Music Curriculum: Part II" led by Patricia Gray (Rhodes College)

For more information and applications, please visit http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/workshop/workshop01.html . Application deadline is April 30, 2001, and acceptance is first-come, first-served.

ACS APPLIES FOR PLANNING GRANT FOR NEXT PHASE OF TECHNOLOGY CENTER

ACS has requested a planning grant of $146,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to enable us to plan for a possible expansion of ACS Technology Center programming. The Mellon Foundation has expressed an interest in exploring how 3 national Technology Centers, one of which would be the ACS Center at Southwestern University, might work together to support a group of about 100 national liberal arts colleges. Among other things, we will consider whether and how to expand our offerings to a larger group of institutions, how we might support IT departments across the consortium, how best to meet the needs of our members with a "mobile lab", and how best to involve students in our programming, perhaps by offering ACS Technology internships. The planning period will run from about January - July, 2001. If you would like to be involved, please contact Suzanne Bonefas, bonefas@colleges.org.

ALIANCO PLANNING MEETING AT UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND IN APRIL

A meeting is planned for ACS language lab directors and language faculty April 20-22 at the University of Richmond. Participants will discuss the kinds of collaborations they might engage in and the technical infrastructure and support system required for such collaborations. For more information, please contact Andrew Ross, Manager, Multimedia Language Laboratory, aross@richmond.edu.

SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION FLUENCY TO BE HELD IN FEBRUARY

ACS will sponsor its second symposium on Information Fluency Feb. 16-18, 2001 at the ACS Technology Center. The program will include time for members of our 5 IF task forces to discuss plans for the future, a panel on consortial training of students to work with faculty on technology-based projects, and a panel comprised of members of a northeastern consortium who are also studying consortial approches to information fluency. In addition, Susan Perry, Director of Library, Information and Technology Services at Mount Holyoke College, will speak on collaboration. For more information, see http://www.colleges.org/~if (where an agenda will be posted soon) or contact Barbara Halbert, barbara@colleges.org, 404.636.9533.

ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL SEEKS FACULTY FOR SUMMER 2001

ACS faculty are invited to apply for Arkansas Governor's School faculty positions in Choral Music, Instrumental Music, Drama, Visual Arts, Social Science, Natural Science, Mathematics, Language Arts, Conceptual Development, and Personal and Social Development. The period of employment is from June 11 - July 28, 2001. Call (501) 682-4224 or access the online application at http://www.hendrix.edu/ags/.

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