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Jeff Gima · 21 June 2023

Asma Al-Kanan receives AMICAL award for outstanding volunteer service

Jeff Gima (AMICAL Director) and Maha Bali (AMICAL Coordinating Committee Chair) present the award to Asma Al-Kanan (connecting remotely) at AMICAL 2023. AMICAL is a 30-institution consortium with a paid staff of about 2 FTEs. Like any good membership based…

Nadine Aboulmagd, Alex Armstrong, Elena Berg, Jeff Gima, Antonio Lopez · 19 June 2023

Project Incubator follow-up: AMICAL’s EcoJustice OER Initiative

Teaching resources posted on AMICAL’s EcoJustice OER demo site

Image: Teaching resources posted on AMICAL’s EcoJustice OER demo site This is the second in a series of posts about outcomes of the Project Incubator at AMICAL 2023 Environmental justice, and environmental sustainability more generally, have become urgent…

Alex Armstrong & Jeff Gima · 13 June 2023

Project Incubator at AMICAL 2023

Green plants sprouting out of black soil.

One of the goals of AMICAL’s current grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the development of “Community and Infrastructure for Collaboration”. We’ve been pursuing this through a broad range of efforts supporting connections across consortium membership –…

9 June 2023

Recorded sessions from AMICAL 2023

The recordings for AMICAL 2023 are now available on YouTube! The conference, which took place from May 24-26, 2023 at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, brought together staff and faculty from the consortium’s 30 international liberal arts institutions…

22 March 2023

Small Grants program updates & final deadline: 3 April 2023

This year’s final deadline for our Small Grants program is coming up on the 3rd of April 2023. It is earlier than usual due to the conclusion of our grant funding on 31 July 2023. This program funds training, staff exchanges and projects that support AMICAL’s…

16 February 2023

Registration now open for AMICAL 2023 & overview of program

We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for AMICAL 2023, the consortium’s 20th annual conference! The deadline is March 2. We have updated the conference website to include information about registration, financial support, accommodation, visa…

13 December 2022

AMICAL 2023 – Call for proposals and applications for Project Incubator now open!

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for AMICAL 2023 is now live. We are also accepting applications for the Project Incubator, a new session that will run at the conference. Staff and faculty members from all AMICAL member institutions are…

Jeff Gima · 7 October 2022

“Intercultural Open Resources for Environmental Justice”: AMICAL project accepted for the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute

AMICAL recently gathered a team to work on a cross-consortium project idea for supporting the development of Open Educational Resources and Open Access scholarship related to environmental issues, in particular environmental justice, with the intercultural lens…

20 September 2022

Save the date! AMICAL 2023 will take place 24–26 May

AMICAL 2023 will take place 24–26 May 2023 at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. This will mark the consortium’s 20th annual conference! The AMICAL Conference brings together staff and faculty from the consortium’s 29 international liberal arts…

12 July 2022

Small Grants: Spring and summer 2022 awards

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 10 applications in the spring and summer of 2022. The following 8 applications were granted either full or partial funding: Title Applicant Institution Category …