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Students and faculty/staff guides are invited to attend the April 16, 2026 ACCA Vocation Event at Shedd Aquarium. The formal program will occur from 1:30 — 3:00 pm, but participants will be invited to explore aquarium exhibits before and/or after the event as desired. Space is limited to 50 participants (students and chaperones). Students must…

At the Student Symposium in April, Dr. Steven Keith Platt will give the address entitled “Decoding AI”. An abstract is below. Please encourage students sign up to attend and to present on their own research for this April 18 event at Lewis University. Registration details can be found here: https://accachicago.org/student-symposium/ Abstract: This presentation will focus…

The plenary speaker for the April 18 Student Research Symposium will be Dr. Steven Platt. As Executive Lecturer and Director of Analytics at Loyola University Quinlan School of Business, Dr. Platt’s specific area of expertise is addressing areas like the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI: how we got here), the underlying structures of AI (how…

The ACCA Psychology Division invites faculty to join the annual book club meeting. This year the group is reading “Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work” (Michaelson & Tosti-Kharas, 2024). The discussion will be Thursday, February 19th, likely at 6pm at Beatrix in Oak Brook. See your email for an RSVP…

Save this date in your Spring semester calendar: Thursday, April 16, 2026. On this date, Shedd Aquarium will host a FREE event for students accompanied by faculty/staff guides to explore options for STEM and STEM adjacent careers at Shedd Aquarium. Stay after the event to explore Shedd Exhibits! Financial support for travel/parking will be available…

The Fall 2025 ACCA Biology Seminar will be 6:30 PM Wednesday, November 19, at the University of St. Francis. Please register no later than November 17 at this link: https://forms.gle/WUbHvH4tKCNkL6LB9. The seminar is free to participants from ACCA member institutions. For details on the program, see the flyer linked below.

Registration is now open for the Spring 2026 ACCA Course at the Morton Arboretum: Forest Ecology in a Changing World.

The Fall ACCA Mathematics Lecture event will be held Thursday November 13th 5:45-8pm at the University of St. Francis in Joliet.  We are excited to welcome our speaker Dr. Richard Cleary.  He will be giving two talks, see the titles and abstracts below.  We will have dinner in between the talks at 6:30pm. Please RSVP through the…

At the November 9 Faculty Pedagogy Symposium, there will be an opportunity to participate in an AI Workshop. Following a brief demonstration of the capabilities of publicly available AI agents, smaller groups will share and explore additional issues.  One group will discuss the development of AI use policy, another group will focus on curriculum development,…

Registration and the call for papers for the Saturday, November 8, ACCA faculty symposium is now open! Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to attend and present. The priority deadline for parallel session abstracts is October 31. Please register and submit your presentation abstract using the SCHED system at https://acca2025pedagogysymposium.sched.com.  You will need to use/create…