Our Collaborations

Through five decades of collaboration, the ACM colleges have collectively constructed a powerful asset for their faculty and administrative leaders. ACM facilitates a variety of forums and other opportunities for peers to discuss not only the direction of programs but, with great candor, the common challenges and emerging opportunities they face on their campuses.

This ongoing engagement — and the multiple, overlapping relationships among the campuses it has fostered — enriches the intellectual lives and professional capacity of faculty and administrative leaders alike.

With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Teagle Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, ACM offers faculty from its member campuses significant opportunities for collaboration and development. A new grant program created by the University of Chicago supports interaction between ACM faculty and the University. ACM faculty also participate in a variety of ways in the consortium's off-campus study programs. See the Opportunities pages for details.

Through ongoing committees like the Committee on Minority Concerns and the Committee on the Status of Women, ACM colleagues come together to address pressing campus issues.

ACM institutions have also partnered through the years to share information about admissions data and approaches, to collaborate on meetings to reach college-bound students, and to support publication of pre-college planning materials for high school students and guidance counselors.