ACM FaCE (Faculty Career Enhancement) Project
Creating and Disseminating Sustained Advances in Liberal Arts Collaboration
About the FaCE Project
Supported by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ACM Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project provides opportunities for faculty at ACM colleges.The FaCE Project invites competitive proposals from faculty at ACM colleges, offering funding for workshops and conferences, research collaborations, development of internet-based outreach tools, and evaluation activities.
- More About the FaCE Project
- Call for proposals
- Guidelines for Preparing a Proposal
- Grant Proposals Funded in 2008 and 2009
FaCE and SERC
ACM is collaborating with SERC at Carleton College to provide tools and expertise for developing a website for each FaCE-funded project that will be comprehensive and searchable.Through SERC, the collaborations fostered by the FaCE Project will be widely available and will have impact beyond the participants and the ACM.
Information for Organizers of FaCE Project Collaborations
SERC has complete information on how to set up a website to support your collaborative event or research project and to make effective use of SERC's online tools. To get started, please read the Online Tools to Support Collaborations page.Upcoming FaCE Events
Integrating Study Abroad into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Transforming On-Campus Teaching and Learning
- November 6-7, 2009
- Location: Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin
- A Collaborative Event with funding from the ACM Mellon FaCE Project. Sponsored by Beloit College and Kalamazoo College.
- Leader: Betsy Brewer, Director of International Studies, Beloit College
In recent years, colleges and universities around the world have encouraged their students to pursue educational experiences in other countries by developing systems for recognizing the credits they earn abroad as part of their degree studies at the home institution. The larger goal, however, has been to transform the teaching and learning that takes place on the home campus. The purpose of this conference, therefore, is to
- pay attention to how study abroad can be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum, and
- investigate how this integration is affecting the work of the faculty in their teaching, advising, and scholarship.
Intentional Integration of Academic and Athletic Programs
- November 6-7, 2009
- Location: Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Sponsored by Coe College and the ACM Academic Deans
The conference aims to gather faculty, senior athletic staff, academic and student life leaders to identify strategies ACM institutions and the consortium can adopt to:
- Strengthen ties and understanding between faculty and coaches;
- Find and strengthen the areas of student learning where overlap occurs in both the classroom and through participation in sports; and
- Create new and innovative ways to increase the overlap between academics and athletics both in and out of the classroom, in support of the liberal arts mission.
Outdoor Classroom II
- June 25-27, 2010
- Location: Lawrence University's Bjorklunden Vid Sjon, Door County, Wisconsin
- Workshop Conveners: Jeff Clark (Lawrence University) and Sue Swanson (Beloit College)
This workshop follows on the successful [Outdoor Classroom Workshop run in the summer of 2009 and will focus on how recent technological advances have the potential to revolutionize the way field-based science courses are conceived and delivered.
Recent FaCE Events
Women and the Academy: Defining our Roles
- September 25-27, 2009
- Location: Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- A conference co-sponsored by the ACM Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) and the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science (MCMS). Funding support from the ACM Mellon FaCE Project.
The Outdoor Classroom: Recent Advances in Mobile Computing for the Field Sciences
- June 16-18, 2009
- Location: Lawrence University's Björklunden Vid Sjön in Door County, Wisconsin
- Leaders: Jeff Clark, Lawrence University and Sue Swanson, Beloit College
- A workshop with funding from the ACM Mellon FaCE Project and the NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund.
