 Carolinas Associates
Encouraging Excellence in Teaching
 The Carolinas Associates is an organization of active or retired North and South Carolina college and university faculty members and their spouses who express a major commitment to teaching, are interested in and active in scholarship, and are concernedwith the development of students in terms of their values and social responsibilities. The Carolinas Associates was chartered in March 1987, as successor to the Carolinas Region of the Danforth Associates, a regional organization of a national academic network sponsored for 25 years by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, MO.The purposes of the Carolinas Associates are to recognize and encourage effective teaching on the college campus and to humanize teaching and learning for members of the campus community; to offer opportunities for interdisciplinary and interinstitutional activities among faculty members and spouses who have broad concern for values in education and society at large and who, as persons interested in teaching and scholarship, show a specific concern for students as persons.
2010 Executive Committee (September 29th to October 2nd)
The focus of this year's conference will be on "Appalachia Part II: The Penland School of Crafts " The conference will feature Michelle Francis, Archivist from the Penland School of Crafts. Click here for a Tentative Conference Schedule
Registration Form- Click here to download the 2011 registration and dues form
General Conference Information: The Carolinas Associates' Conference is held at the Pinebridge Inn and Conference Center in the mountains of North Carolina. The conference usually starts on Friday evening with a reception and dinner, and the first session begins immediately after. The conference continues throughout the day and evening on Saturday. The last session concludes by 11am on Sunday. The cost of the 3-day conference is $300 per couple ($240 per individual), which includes two nights lodging and six meals beginning with dinner on Friday evening and concluding with a box lunch on Sunday. We are also offering a 2-day conference registration at $200 per couple ($150 per individual), which includes one night lodging (Friday or Saturday night) with 4 meals. To register fill out the Conference Registration Form and submit it and your payment to the address indicated on the form. Current Projects: The Carolinas Associates Archive Project Pictures from the 2010 conference (click here)  
 
Pictures From the 2009 conference (click here)   
Pictures from the 2008 conference:
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