Welcome
Dear New and Returning ACME Colleagues:
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Welcome to the ACME 2022 Annual Conference on March 2-4, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana. We are excited to see you! Thank you for your support of ACME and we appreciate your sharing your work at this year’s conference.
We have a terrific program in store for you and a wide variety of events, including plenary sessions with distinguished speakers, research and teaching development sessions, a dedicated Student Track, the ACME AxcessCapon Teaching Innovation Competition, workshops, special sessions, our Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony, networking with your ACME colleagues, our collegial ACME environment, and much more.
For those of you attending the conference face-to-face, welcome! Please join us in the hotel conference rooms as listed in the ACME 2022 Conference Program.
For those of you joining the conference virtually, welcome! Our ACME team has worked diligently on a virtual presentation option for those registered attendees who are unable to attend face-to-face in New Orleans. This conference landing page will allow virtual presenters and audience members to connect, via Zoom, with the on-ground ACME members in New Orleans.
For virtual presenters, all conference presentations will be made Live via Zoom and all times are in U.S. Central Daylight Savings Time (GMT – 5 hours), same as Chicago time.
Whether you are joining the conference face-to-face or online, please participate in as many of the conference events as possible. In particular, don’t miss the ACME Signature Sessions (click on the link in the right navigation menu for the Signature Sessions.)
Thank you so much to our ACME Officer Team and all of the Track Chairs and reviewers for your hard work on the conference planning. We appreciate all of your efforts.
Thank you again for being part of ACME 2022!
Sincerely,
Rajasree, Lilly, and the ACME Team
Rajasree K. Rajamma, ACME Program Chair, 2021-2022
Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
rrajamma@fairfield.edu
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Lilly Ye, ACME Vice President for Membership/Associate Program Chair, 2021-2022
Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
lye@frostburg.edu
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ACME Officers, 2021-2022
PresidentTürkan Dursun-Kilic, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
Program ChairRajasree K. Rajamma, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Vice President for
Membership and
Associate Program ChairLilly Ye, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
Secretary and Director
of CommunicationsWeixing M. Ford, Texas A&M University - San Antonio, Texas
TreasurerSanjay S. Mehta, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Immediate Past PresidentMel F. Zuberi, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland
WebmasterStacey Bolin, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma
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Proceedings EditorAyşe Begüm Ersoy, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
ACME Program Planning Team, 2021-2022
Rajasree K. Rajamma, Program Chair, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Lilly Ye, Vice President of Membership and Associate Program Chair, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
Renée Gravois, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
ACME Board of Directors, 2021-2022
Mel F. Zuberi, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, and Keller Williams St. Pete Realty, St. Petersburg, Florida
Renée Gravois, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Irfan Ahmed, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Vivekshankar Natarajan, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
Vaidas Lukosius, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee