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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 2008 Cooperative Courses in Chemistry and Biology will be posted as soon as they are available.

The Fall Biology course is Invasive Species, coordinated by Jerry Kavouras of Lewis University.

The Fall Chemistry course is Nuclear Chemistry, coordinated by Paul Brandt of North Central College.

             The offerings in the College Botany Program with Morton Arboretum are listed under Morton Arboretum.   

             ***Graduate Credit available for Nuclear Chemistry***                    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.  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). 

  • The Fall 2008 Biology seminar is Invasive Species.  The schedule will be posted (see Seminar Agendas).
  • There is no 2008 Computer Science seminar.
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  • The guidelines and student instructions for the Student Symposium are posted.  The 2009 Student Symposium will be held on April 4, 2009 at Lewis University.
  • The 2008 ACCA Annual Dinner Meeting will take place on Monday, October 6, 2008, at Benedictine University.  You will receive more specific information closer to the event, but you will want to reserve the date.
  • The fourth annual ACCA Pedagogy Symposium will be held at Lewis University on Saturday, October 18, 2008.   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 18, 2008

 

 

 

 

ACCA Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium

 

October 18, 2008

 

 

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Lewis University will be hosting the Fall 2008 ACCA Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium.

 

The date will be Saturday, October 18, 2008.

 

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