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Grinnell College professor Shonda Kuiper collaborated with colleagues Laura Chihara (Carleton College) and Adam Loy (Lawrence University) to develop curricula for courses in statistics and data science. (Photo by Justin Hayworth/Grinnell College)

FUNDING FOR COLLABORATIVE FACULTY INNOVATION

What ideas do ACM faculty have to enhance teaching and learning at their colleges?

Are there new pedagogical approaches to try, or curricula to prepare students for emerging career paths, or ways to use instructional technology that engage students and bring resources into the classroom?

The Faculty Career Enhancement Program (FaCE) awards grants that enable ACM faculty to engage in collaborative projects that explore ways to strengthen liberal arts education, and then to share the results widely with colleagues across the ACM and beyond.

PROJECTS WITH IMPACT

With support from FaCE grants, faculty have created a wide range of projects to initiate change on ACM campuses, such as:

  • New curricula: To help address the demand for classes in statistics and data science, faculty from Grinnell College, Lawrence University, and Carleton College shared their expertise to create tutorials and case studies for those courses and make the materials freely available online.
  • Pedagogical advances: As field-based learning expands, Colorado College faculty and staff hosted a Symposium on Field Study to define and refine the pedagogy and practice of field study.
  • Introducing technology: Lawrence University created an interdisciplinary makerspace to provide access to advanced technology, such as 3-D printers, for faculty and students across disciplines.

Recent FaCE Projects

ACM Planning Meeting on Mississippi Studies

Mississippi Studies re-imagines the river and its tributaries as a coherent cultural and research corridor, fostering new ways of conceptualizing its shared environment, heritage, and rich role in the history […]

FaCE-ing the Challenges of Neuroscience Education at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

This project seeks to bring ACM faculty from five institutions together to identify and develop resources that will strengthen neuroscience education across the ACM through a virtual meeting, multi-day workshop […]

Tools for Teaching a Diverse Pre-Modern Western History

While the history of Roman and medieval Europe might seem distant from contemporary political unrest, events in 2017 showed otherwise. A Roman art historian received death threats for describing the […]

The Faculty Career Enhancement Program (FaCE) is an eight-year initiative supported by a generous $2 million grant from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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