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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 2008 Cooperative Courses in
Chemistry and Biology are posted at Seminar Agendas.
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 series will run from September
16 through November 18 (Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 at Benedictine University).
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. 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).
- The Fall 2008 Biology seminar is Invasive
Species. The schedule is
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
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