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Welcome to the ACCA
home page!
 We are a
consortium of 15 private liberal arts colleges, founded in 1966 to
promote cooperation in education and training in the sciences. You can
find out more about us and our members by clicking on the topics on the
left.
 ATTENTION
ALL ACCA MEMBERS!
- The schedules
for the Fall 2009 Cooperative Courses in Chemistry and Biology will
be posted at Seminar Agendas.
The Fall Biology course is Charles Darwin and
His Legacy – A Bicentennial Celebration,
coordinated by Bill Bromer (University of St. Francis) and Al Martin
(Benedictine University).
The Fall Chemistry course is Spectroscopy,
coordinated by Salim Diab of the University of St.
Francis and Kate Martin of McCrone
Associates. The series
will run from September 15 through November 17 (Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00)
and will be held at McCrone Associates in Westmont.
The offerings in the College Botany Program with Morton Arboretum
are
listed under Morton Arboretum.
***Graduate Credit available for Spectroscopy***
Olivet Nazarene University will again be offering graduate credit
to anyone who already has a bachelor’s degree, provided he/she has
not previously received credit during one of the years when the title was
the same. Students may
receive graduate credit by attending any eight of the lectures, and
writing a summary of each of the ones attended. Although anyone is welcome to
attend one or more sessions without taking the series for graduate
credit, anyone wanting graduate credit through ONU should contact Dr.
Douglas Armstrong at: darmstrg@olivet.edu
(or by phone:
815/939-5393).
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- There will be a
2009 Computer Science seminar.
The topic is scheduled to be “Computer and Network
Security.”
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- The guidelines and
student instructions for the Student Symposium are posted. The 2010 Student Symposium
will be held on April 10, 2010 at Lewis University.
- The 2009 ACCA Annual Dinner
Meeting will take place on Monday, October 5, 2009, at Benedictine University. You will receive more specific information closer to the event, but
you will want to reserve the date.
- The fifth
annual ACCA Pedagogy Symposium will be held at Lewis University on
Saturday, October 17, 2009. For information please
contact acca@lewisu.edu . To register please use http://cs.lewisu.edu/accaped
The Associated
Colleges of the Chicago
Area (ACCA)
Scholarship of
Pedagogy Symposium at Lewis
University
October 17, 2009
ACCA
Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium
October 17, 2009
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Lewis University will be hosting the Fall 2009
ACCA Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium.
The
date will be Saturday, October 17, 2009.
Most
sessions will be approximately 20 minutes, as in the past; but provision
may be made for a double session.
The
formal call for papers will be issued April 21.
The
keynote speaker will be Dr. Steven Meyers, Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University who is the Illinois
Professor of the Year selected by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching.
For further information on ACCA activities, please contact:
Marv Bartell
ACCA Executive Director
Marv.Bartell@CUChicago.edu
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