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| Lynette Robinson becomes ANAC executive director. |
Lynette Robinson, vice chancellor and chief academic officer of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, has been named to succeed ANAC's founding executive director Jerry Berberet, effective September 1. Holder of degrees from Earlham College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Boston College, Dr. Robinson has had extensive experience in both the private and public higher education sectors, including service as dean of admissions at ANAC-member Simmons College. Jerry Berberet was a member of the original study group of presidents and chief academic officers who began to meet in 1990, and spearheaded the founding of the Associated New American Colleges in 1995.
The June 14-16 ANAC Summer Institute at North Central College was the largest in the ten-year history of this signature summer ANAC gathering for faculty and professional staff development. More than 125 faculty, staff, and administrators participated from twenty ANAC member institutions.
ANAC has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the TIAA-CREF Institute for an early career faculty survey in collaboration with the University of Minnesota. Scheduled for administration during the weeks prior to Thanksgiving, the survey is part of ANAC’s project to address issues and challenges related to the turnover of approximately half of the current faculty cohort over the next decade, as the faculty generation born since 1940 and hired in the 1960s and 1970’s retires.
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