Disciplinary Groups Across the ACM

We want to facilitate collaboration between ACM faculty through visits involving both pedagogical and research exchanges. We think this will lead to cross-fertilization of best practice and a reduction in isolation among our faculty.

Group members: Steven Huss-Lederman, Mas Iimura, Katie Johnson, Laura Moore, Joe Scanlon, Marty St. Clair, Craig Teague, Henry Walker


Action Plan

• Establish liaisons at each ACM participating institution
  • Instrument and expertise list
  • Liaison facilitate
  • Marty coordinate creation of list forms
    
  • Start of liaisons
    
  • Beloit (Steve/Katie)
  • Coe (Marty)
  • Monmouth (Laura)
  • Ripon (Joe/Mas)
  • Grinnell (Jim?)
  • Cornell (Charley Liberko?)
    
  • use FaCE institutional representatives to try to get ones for other institutions (Marty)
    
• Arrange one-day visits among proximate colleges
• Arrange multidisciplinary team visits
  
• FaCE grant
• Steve/Katie with liaison move grant soon
• ~$3k for ~6 visits; about half determined for proposal
• look into campus matches
  
• Example visits
  • Prototypical visit components
  • Full day of activities
  • Interact with faculty and students formally and informally
  • lunch time
  • scheduled individual meetings
  • tea/coffee/cookies
    
  • Talk on research areas
  • Opportunity for pedagogical exchange
  • class visit
  • teach class
  • meeting with departmental members
  • PKAL curricular goals
    
  • creation of web page on PKAL/FaCE/ACM site (template to be created; first shot by Monmouth/Ripon)
    
  • pictures
  • what happened; abstracts
    
  • results of interaction
    
  • Coe/Cornell previous visit
  • Steve at Coe showed Cornell students laser usage/demo
  • Steve went to Cornell and did lecture and class
  • Craig from Cornell gave research talk at Coe and contributed to MRI grants
  • Results
  • both use equipment and starting to collaborate on research
  • grant funded and did another grant
  • Craig gained better appreciation of lasers and integrated into own courses
    
  • Coe students heard about Craig's research
    
  • Proposed Ripon (Mas) <-> Monmouth (Laura) exchange
  • Laura teach biochem, etc. and/or non-majors class
  • Laura give research seminar
  • Laura observe classes
  • Laura have lunch with students
  • Laura spring break 2009; Mas fall 2009
    
  • Grinnell (Henry) <-> Beloit (Steve)
  • Henry spring 2009; Steve S09?
    
  • Beloit/Ripon science group
  • Ripon/Lawrence chemistry
    
• Hoped outcomes/future initiatives
  
• Investigate the possibility of a student research symposium and/or a multi-campus REU
• liaisons discuss in F09 after initial visit
• Explore possibility of sabbatical exchanges with ACM schools
• Honeybee model of pollination across ACM
  

Notes from group sessions (Microsoft Word 33kB Dec7 08)