ACME 2022 Welcome

Welcome

Dear New and Returning ACME Colleagues:

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

Lilly Ye, ACME Vice President for Membership/Associate Program Chair, 2021-2022

Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
lye@frostburg.edu

ACME Officers, 2021-2022
President Türkan Dursun-Kilic, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
Program Chair Rajasree K. Rajamma, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Vice President for
Membership and
Associate Program Chair
Lilly Ye, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
Secretary and Director
of Communications
Weixing M. Ford, Texas A&M University - San Antonio, Texas
Treasurer Sanjay S. Mehta, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Immediate Past President Mel F. Zuberi, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland
Webmaster Stacey Bolin, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma
Proceedings Editor Ayşe 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