John Ottenhoff is vice president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, where he is responsible for faculty development programs and helps to oversee ACM's 13 undergraduate off-campus study programs. ACM is a consortium of 14 liberal arts colleges—Beloit College, Carleton College, the College of the University of Chicago, Coe College, Colorado College, Cornell College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Lake Forest College, Lawrence University, Macalester College, Monmouth College, Ripon College, St. Olaf College.
Prior to joining ACM in July 2007, John was associate provost at Alma College (Alma, MI) from 2004–2007 and a member of the English faculty for 18 years. He was a 2003–04 member of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a sabbatical fellow at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, and the founder, with Michael Roy, of Academic Commons, a web journal and community dedicated to a discussion of the uses of new technologies in liberal education. He has published widely on early modern English devotional literature, psalm translation, and digital culture.