Associated Colleges of the South

Bimonthly Meeting of Chief Academic Officers
2023-01-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Please contact us at office.admin@acsouth.edu for more information.

Monthly First Year Orientation Meeting
2023-02-20 15:00 - 16:00

Quarterly Meeting of Campus Safety/Campus Police
2023-02-21 15:00 - 16:00

Sustainability Mindset: Making Change Makers
2023-05-23 08:00 - 2023-05-25 17:00
(at Sewanee, University of the South)

What happens when we notice our own choices rippling out across time and around the globe? Mindsets shift about what “sustainability” might include. Beyond fostering eco-literacy, Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG), a United Nations initiative, structures approaches and techniques for opening students’ minds to fostering global-social changes. This workshop builds on innovative curricula using a leading-edge approach sustainability mindset, led by Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy.

Registration for this workshop seeks to balance multi-disciplinary representation and assure access to people from across all ACS schools. Therefore, please apply here before April 10. Organizers will then contact people for registration as space permits. A waiting list will be created as needed, and all registration closes by April 21.

Chocolate Covered Teaching: Using commodity-based goods to foster critical thinking skills in undergraduates
2023-06-01 08:00 - 2023-06-04 17:00
This chocolate workshop is aimed at faculty across disciplines who use – or want to consider using – chocolate and other “affordable luxuries” as an approach for teaching curricular materials, especially at introductory levels. Faculty will explore and create curricular materials that both support and integrate the natural sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Neuroscience), the social sciences (Anthropology, Education, Geography, Economics, Business, Environmental Studies), the fine arts (Visualization) and the humanities (English, History, Religion, Community) into different themes including, but not limited to, biodiversity, global and local economics/business, human health, artistic impression, and social justice.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Bimonthly Meeting of Vice Presidents for Student Life/Deans of Students
2023-02-02 14:00 - 15:00

ACS Teaching and Learning Workshop
2023-06-05 08:00 - 2023-06-10 17:00
This annual program focuses on individualized instruction, often for early career faculty, for teachers explicitly seeking to develop classroom style and techniques for increasing their classroom effectiveness. The workshop is led by a consistent set of teaching and learning coaches from ACS schools who have built, refined and continuously innovated the curriculum and their own pedagogical techniques over time.

Registration for this experience requires that a faculty member be nominated by their Chief Academic Officer. Please contact your CAO’s office.

Bimonthly CFO/CBO Meeting
2023-02-08 16:00 - 17:00

Pathways to Diversity – Shaping Histories of Desegregation
2023-06-19 08:00 - 2023-06-20 17:00
The stories shared are the narratives believed. This project invites library archivists and faculty of art, anthropology, history, political science, race and ethnic studies and more to learn the strategy, the tools, and the multi-media technique from librarians and faculty who have been doing this work at Centre College, Rollins College, Washington & Lee University, and Furman University since 2018. We especially seek colleagues from Birmingham Southern, Centenary, Davidson, Hendrix, Millsaps, Morehouse Sewanee, Southwestern, Spelman, Rhodes, Trinity, and University of Richmond. Learn more.

Register directly! https://library.centre.edu/pathways-workshops/join

Leadership Fellows Orientation
2023-06-20 08:00 - 2023-06-22 17:00

Bimonthly Meeting of Residence Life Directors
2023-02-23 15:30 - 16:30

Inclusive Pedagogy Institute
2023-06-26 17:00 - 2023-06-28 15:30
Students and classrooms differ, not just by content but also by who’s teaching! Curious to learn more about reaching varieties of students in today’s generation? The facilitation team of this interdisciplinary workshop fosters honest exploration of the complexities of “doing the work of inclusive pedagogy,” structures activities that cultivate connections with colleagues across ACS, teaches participants how to design an authentic inclusive assignment, practice, or assessment that can be implemented in Fall 2023 in your course(s) or in your emergent inclusive mindset. Participants will come away from the institute with a toolkit for building inclusive learning environments.

For those coming in from out of town, please plan to arrive at Millsaps College no later than 4:00 PM on Monday, June 26th (flights should arrive at JAN airport by 3:15 pm or earlier). This allows for you to check in for the institute and check into your room. Because we end so late in the day Wednesday June 28th, you may wish to depart in the morning on the 29th. Housing, meals, and a more casual, community time together will be available after the formal program concludes.

Bimonthly Meeting of Diversity Officers
2023-02-28 14:00 - 15:00

Quarterly Meeting of Student Life Colleagues
2023-01-03 16:00 - 17:00

“Diversity Advocate” Approach to Building Equitable Hiring Practices
2023-07-10 08:00 - 2023-07-12 17:00
This “train the trainer” experience equips two people per campus (a human resource lead and a faculty-hiring lead) to build or expand the institution’s recruiting and hiring process, practices and policies towards increased equity in faculty/staff hiring. The experience includes readings, interactive lectures with people who have designed such programs at ACS institutions, opportunities for confidentially sharing and discussing among peers, scenarios for training and tactical planning for each institution’s up-coming hiring season.

Registration for this event is open to staff and faculty who have hiring and hiring oversight responsibility. Please click here to register.

Quarterly Meeting of Grant Officers
2023-01-10 14:00 - 15:00

Quarterly Meeting of Human Resources Directors
2023-02-07 11:00 - 12:00

Quarterly Meeting of Center for Teaching and Learning Directors/Faculty Development
2023-02-14 13:00 - 14:00

Quarterly Meeting of International Program Directors
2023-02-08 14:30 - 15:30

Quarterly Meeting of Enrollment Leaders
2023-02-09 10:00 - 11:00

New Department Chair Programming Series - Who am I as a Leader?
2023-09-06 15:00 - 17:00
Who am I as a Leader? This first session will kick off the year by touching upon the big picture of chairing a department. In this session we will explore who we are as leaders; how to transition effectively into our new role. We will also develop a community of academic leaders from across the consortium of ACS. We will discuss leading from our values and through a DEI lens; the importance of communication; thinking like a department chair; running an effective meeting; and onboarding new faculty and staff into our departments. We will also review upcoming topics, and have time for some just-in-time discussions. In this first session, the goal is to create a community among ACS new department chairs, and to provide an overview of some of the issues and activities you are likely to encounter.

Please go here to register: https://www.acsouth.edu/forms/new-department-chair-programming/
