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Building Community and Curriculum in a 21st Century Liberal Arts Major
Assessing and expanding compliance to recommendations is complex. To address this need, Ferguson and Sweet (2016) developed the Curriculum Mapping Too...
Summit on the Sophomore Year Experience
Sophomore Slump Research shows that the sophomore year is a particularly precarious time for students. They may no longer feel the excitement of being...
Sharing Expertise in Community-Based Learning & Research Addressing Immigration
Project Updates For updates on this project, visit Engage Immigration, a website being built by the project leaders that includes information about th...
Locally Francophone
Despite the increasing need for language and intercultural proficiencies, cutbacks in language programs are a national trend. Programs in smaller, les...
Fostering Long-Term, Collaborative Research in Environmental Science at ACM Field Stations
ACM institutions have a long tradition of establishing and managing field stations, to engage students in the study of the environment using active le...
Faculty Development for Pedagogy Informed by Cognitive Science Research on Learning and Memory
Many of the traditional teaching methods we currently employ have been shown by cognitive science research to be either ineffective, or less effective...
Museum Re-Imaginings
Macalester College will host a workshop in summer 2017 addressing the creation of a digital museum using a model with student learning at its core. Pa...
Engaging the Community of ACM Mathematicians
This project will bring several members from each mathematics department in the ACM to participate in a two-day meeting to be held in July 2017 at the...
Tuning the Classics
Inspired by the American Historical Association’s Tuning Project, Tuning the Classics seeks to bring together classicists, and those teaching as...
Teaching and Mentoring Research of Undergraduate Economics in the ACM
In the wake of the Great Recession, the economics profession was pummeled almost daily in mass media. The core critique excoriated economics curriculu...
Making Decisions with Data
Read about this project: Tutorials Help Meet Student Interest in Data Science See R Tutorials in Data Science created by professors Shonda Kuiper (Gri...