American Collegiate Consortium for East-West Cultural and Academic Exchange

Record Group

Identifier: A22

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1987-1996

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research without restriction.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from:

Special Collections

Davis Family Library

Middlebury College

110 Storrs Avenue

Middlebury, VT 05753

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Biographical / Historical

The American Collegiate Consortium for East-West Cultural and Academic Exchange, or simply the American Collegiate Consortium (ACC), was founded in 1987 in Middlebury, Vermont.

President Olin Robison was the creator of the program. It was designed as an exchange program between a group of liberal arts colleges in the United States and a number of universities in the Soviet Union. The program first brought Soviet students to the US for the 1988/1989 academic year and the following year the first Americans studied in the USSR. Students of any discipline could participate in the program and American students could study in any of the Soviet republics.

The work of the ACC was continued by the Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement in 1988.