Our 2020 Impact Report is here! Read about how the ACM community met last year's challenges with creativity, generosity, and strength, supporting one another to advance shared goals in innovative ways. Find the report on ACM.edu. Link in bio. #liberalarts #education #highered #impact 
The ACM is thrilled to announce Sandra Cisneros will select the prize-winning story in the 2021 Nick Adams Short Story Contest! Cisneros is a writer and artist whose work explores such themes as Chicana identity, cultural hybridity, and social position. Her classic, coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street has sold more than six million copies. @officialsandracisneros Read our full story on Sandra Cisneros and the contest on our website at https://www.acm.edu/features/feature/813 Photographer: Keith Dannemiller #Writing #Contest #ShortStories #Midwest #Hemingway #SandraCisneros 
Curious about the ACM-Newberry Seminar? Join the ACM and @NewberryLibrary for a virtual session on Friday, December 11, 2:00–3:00 pm CST! Faculty will learn about available visiting director positions, students can hear about the ACM and Newberry Library's Off-Campus Study program for Fall 2021, and everyone can learn more about the Newberry's current exhibit—curated by an ACM-Newberry Seminar alum! #humanities #research #offcampusstudy #liberalarts #library Register: http://ow.ly/oiOj50CEW8z Photo Caption: Philips Galle after Johannes Stradanus. Lapis Impressio Librorum (Book Printing), circa 1588. Engraving, Newberry Library. 
Entries are once again being accepted for the Nick Adams Short Story Contest, now in its 49th year! This writing competition, named for the young hero of many Hemingway stories, offers a prize of $1,000 for the best story written by an ACM student. Each year, a professional author serves as the guest judge, reading the finalists and selecting the winner. Past judges have included Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. Keep an eye on ACM's social media to be the first to know when this year's judge is announced. Follow the link to learn more and find out how to submit a story of your own! https://www.acm.edu/features/feature/812? #writing #writers #hemingway 
Following the shift to #remotelearning due to #COVID19, the ACM developed a workshop series to enhance online course design and pedagogy. The 8-week series is now available for streaming to all #liberalarts educators. #onlinelearning http://ow.ly/qAO850BDJOg? 
"Recognizing the challenges for our communities of color is essential to supporting their success on campus. We wanted to help highlight that reality and offer practical solutions." —Allen Linton II, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, on ACM's Retention and Success Workshop, focused on best practices for supporting underrepresented faculty and students across our campuses. Read more ➡️ https://www.acm.edu/features/feature/810 #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #LiberalArts 
Fall 2021 Off-Campus Study: faculty from @ColoradoCollege, @GrinnellCollege and @LawrenceUni will teach at @OakRidgeLab, @NewberryLibrary and the @FieldMuseum, respectively. Courses will cover #science and #ethics, the #politics of #performance, and #climatechange and #biodiversity. Read more: http://ow.ly/O0MR50AMFrp? 
We are thrilled to partner with the @FieldMuseum to create professional and learning opportunities for our faculty, students, and Chicago's youth. Our first program, an interdisciplinary semester for ACM students at the Field, is scheduled for fall 2021. #highereducation #offcampusstudy #liberalarts (Image: Copyright Field Museum, Photo by Lucy Hewett) 
How do you explore graduate school while sheltering in place? Amid campus closures, the ACM and the Big Ten Academic Alliance created a robust summer research experience for underrepresented students. #COVID19 #ACMStrength #liberalarts #graduateschool Read more: http://ow.ly/feog50zAeNJ 
Congratulations to @MacalesterCollege student Ruby Elliot Zuckerman on winning ACM's 2020 Nick Adams Short Story Contest. Her story "scott disick sucks" was selected by this year's final judge, author and lawyer @Scott_Turow. Learn more about Ruby and the finalists: https://www.acm.edu/features/feature/804 
The ACM-Newberry seminar returns in 2020 with "Food for Thought: A Thousand Years of Cooking and Eating in Illinois and Chicago." Students will look at food from the perspectives of economics, migration, immigration, culture, gender, and activism, making use of the @newberrylibrary's original source materials, co-led by @kenyoncollege faculty Patrick Bottiger and Rosemary O'Neill. Application deadline: March 15. Visit link in bio and click News to learn more. #chicago #illinois #chicagofood #seminar #research Image: "Guarding the corn." Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection (Newberry Library) 
What are the best high-impact practices in liberal arts education, and how can colleges institutionalize these to maximize student learning? ACM colleges are working to answer these questions and implement their findings with the help of a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Visit our website (link in bio) and click News to read more. #liberalarts #highereducation #impact #grant