Mission

The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of residential liberal arts colleges, aims to strengthen its member colleges as leaders and exemplars in liberal arts education through significant, innovative, and sustainable collaborations. The ACM does this by:

• Fostering professional effectiveness of faculty and administrative leaders at member colleges;  

• Providing the members exemplary liberal arts learning through off-campus studies;
• Promoting excellence in teaching and learning, especially as achieved through collaboration.

This new articulation of ACM’s mission reaffirms the Association’s role as both a creative stimulus and a facilitator for the member colleges, providing intangible benefits of community as well as a portfolio of distinctive, high-quality programs for its member colleges. As in the past, ACM seeks to foster excellence in liberal arts learning, through grant-funded opportunities for faculty and staff development, off-campus study and celebration of the excellence achieved by its members. Through these activities, ACM seeks to strengthen its member colleges as leaders in liberal education and, we believe, in leadership by example.