{"id":4242,"date":"2015-12-21T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/13\/faculty-and-staff-receive-grants-from-acs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:04","slug":"faculty-and-staff-receive-grants-from-acs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/faculty-and-staff-receive-grants-from-acs\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty, staff receive grants from ACS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ACS-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20312 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ACS-logo-medium.jpg\" alt=\"ACS logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/194;\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Nine Furman faculty and staff members have received grants from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an organization serving 16 nationally ranked liberal arts institutions.<\/p>\n<p>ACS Faculty Development Grants were awarded to:<\/p>\n<p>Christy Allen (James B. Duke Library), Scott Salzman (James B. Duke Library), and\u00a0Susan Dunnavant (Information Technology Services) \u2013 <em>Web Accessibility for Libraries <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Tartaro (Department of Computer Science) and Brian Goess (Department of Chemistry) \u2013 <em>Improving Student-Created, Zero-cost, Online Course Textbooks by Assessing Improvements in Learning Outcomes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Longest (Department of Sociology) \u2013 <em>Strategic Planning for ACS Teaching and Learning Workshop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alison Roark (Department of Biology) \u2013 <em>Using a Recombinant Yeast Assay to Teach Laboratory Skills in the Undergraduate Classroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suresh Muthukrishnan (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Mike Winiski (Center for Teaching and Learning) \u2013 <em>Cross-Institutional Collaboration to Develop GIS Curricular and Knowledge Mapping for Effective and Efficient Blended Learning Delivery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ACS Faculty Development Grants are funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Woodruff Foundation. The grants support projects that develop method rather than content, have a direct impact on student learning and assessment of that learning, and help increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of a liberal arts education.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact the Furman News and Media Relations office at (864) 294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Furman faculty and staff members have received grants from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an organization serving 16 nationally ranked liberal arts institutions.\u00a0ACS Faculty Development Grants are funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Woodruff Foundation. The grants support projects that develop method rather than content, have a direct impact on student learning and assessment of that learning, and help increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of a liberal arts education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,53,33,37,52,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-computer-science","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-library","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}