Spotlight: Liberal Arts for Development Award for Outstanding Innovation

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Four ACC faculty recently received the 2005 Michigan Liberal Arts for Development Award for Outstanding Innovation.  The award is given to outstanding collaborative teams who promote an increased awareness of the Liberal Arts through innovation and leadership. The award was received for the outstanding innovation of the Facets, ACC's literary publication.  Congratulations to Denise Hill (English instructor), Laurie Wade (Art instructor), Priscilla Homola (English instructor), and Tom Ray (English instructor).

Denise Hill, Laurie Wade, Priscilla Homola, and Tom Ray received the LAND Award for Outstanding Innovation in the liberal arts.

LAND Award Summary
Nominees Denise Hill, Priscilla Homola, Thomas Ray and Laurie Wade have worked together for the past four academic years. Together over these four years they have created and developed a strong literary-arts community both for students on campus as well as for members of the city of Alpena. Facets: ACC’s Journal for the Arts, the core of this literary-arts project, was begun in 2000. Facets has since become included in courses as required reading, submission for publication has become required in several courses, and public readings both on and off campus have been developed as well as support for the biannual ACC art show. In its first year, Facets ran 500 copies; this last year, 2000 copies were printed and continue to be distributed on campus, in the community, and utilized as a recruitment tool, in addition to the creation of a publication web site.

Many of the students whose works have been published in Facets have continued on in their education in liberal arts, most notably several art students who have gone on to universities and art institutes, and writers who have gone on to university and teaching programs. These students are grateful to have Facets to add to or begin to build their portfolios. Several have gone on to submit to and be selected for publication in other academic and national journals.

Facets has also received numerous recognitions for which the advisors have applied:
Columbia Scholastic Award – 2000/01 Silver; 2001/02 Silver; 2002/03 Silver; 2003/04 Gold American Scholastic Press Association – 2002 – 2004 First Place each year Community College Humanities Association – 2000/01 – Honorable Mention; 2003/04 – Most Improved Magazine (only two years entered)

See Also:
Facets Web Site