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Articles In This Issue:

• Pew Grant & Work Project
• Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
• ANAC Data Exchange
• More on the Faculty Work Project
• ANAC & AAC&U Conference
• ANAC Meeting Calendar

June news flashes for the Associated New American Colleges include word that The Pew Charitable Trusts will award grant funding for the second phase of ANAC's Faculty Work Project and the stimulating events of June 6-12 at Saint Mary's College. The $225,000 Pew Charitable Trusts' grant will support a fifteen-month "think tank" project for ANAC members to collaborate in rethinking the underlying principles of faculty work in order to design policies and practices that will address the faculty-institution alignment issues identified in ANAC's 1997-98 assessment project which Pew also funded.

Nineteen ANAC member institutions participated in the two-day project initiation meeting, June 6-7, kicking off a week of project meetings and a teaching/learning colloquium that culminated in ANAC's Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute, June 9-12.

Featuring presenters including John Bennett, Provost at Quinippiac College; Carol Schneider, President of AAC&U; Geoffrey Bannister, President of Butler University; Clifford Baden, Director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education; William Bergquist, President of the School of Professional Psychology in Sacramento, and Thomas Longin, Vice President of the Association of Governing Boards, the Institute gave substance to the paradigm of the integrative institution in pursuing the theme, "Connecting the Disconnects in American Higher Education." By addressing classic issues of institutional fragmentation head-on, the Institute advanced the capacity of colleges and universities to serve students in a framework of collegial community. The following are examples of such disconnects that have long bedeviled higher education:

• Poorly understood human development issues involving faculty and students
• The persistent divide between academic and student affairs
• Philosophical and cultural differences that hamper faculty-administrative collaboration
• Paradigmatic differences between advocates of diversity and democracy that weaken fulfillment of liberal learning's civic mission
• Physical space design practices that inhibit campus community
• Tensions between inward and outward-looking campus perceptions that make community service problematic

The mean on a series of data variables submitted by the twenty-one ANAC members who participated in the first year of ANAC Data Exchange operations:

• Retention of minority students from the freshman to sophomore year almost equals that of all students (79.1% compared to 82.1%; minorities are 15% of entering freshmen, 16% of student bodies as a whole)
• 50.6% of first time, full-time students graduate in four years; 41.4% of minority students graduate in four years.
• More than 25% of new students are transfers; more than 25% of undergraduates are part-time; 61% of undergraduates are women and the average undergraduate age is 22.
• 28.9% of ANAC students are graduate students whose average age is 31; 56% of graduate students are part-time.
• Entering freshman SAT scores average 1125, ACT average is 24; 72% of full-time undergraduates receive financial aid.
• 15.6% of graduating seniors have studied abroad (compared to less than 5% nationally); 33.8% of seniors have completed internships; and 23.4% enter graduate or professional schools within two years of graduation.
• 73.8% of undergraduate and 67.5% of graduate courses are taught by full-time faculty.
• 97% of full-time faculty are tenure track or tenured, 64.5% of tenurable faculty are tenured; 38% of full-time faculty are women, 8% are minority.
• Mean faculty salary is $51,524 (undergraduate $50,580); average salary of professors is $63,836, assistant professors $41,160.
• Number of head count students per full-time faculty member is 19, per full-time administrator 24, per full-time hourly staff member 27.
• Institutions report spending $1.6 million annually for technology and that 86% of all campus buildings (including residence halls) are networked.
• 25.3% of undergraduate alumni contribute to their alma mater's annual fund.

Member institutions are invited to go into the Data Exchange (http://www.anac.org/anacrpt), using their institutional user name and password, and to provide content feedback and data suggestions to Jerry Berberet (anacjberb@aol.com) and technical feedback to Patrick Alles (patrick@creativeanalytics.org) until August 1. Between August 1 and September 1, institutional contact persons are invited to make corrections to and/or to complete their Year I Data Exchange data submissions. After September 1, the Exchange will again be opened for institutional use and preparations will begin for Year II data entry to begin, tentatively by December 1.

July 17 ANAC Chief Financial Officers Summer Meeting, San Antonio (Meeting 12:30 lunch-3:30 pm in conjunction with NACUBO annual meeting) Conference Room #2, Marriott River Center Hotel.

September 11 Fall Meeting of ANAC Presidents Council, Wyndham Garden O'Hare Hotel (773-693-5800), Chicago, 8:30 am-4:00 pm.

September 30-October 3 Association of Integrative Studies Conference at North Central College, Naperville, IL (Contact Francine Navakas (fgn@noctrl.edu) for information.)

EARLY HEADS UP:

November 5-7 ANAC Faculty Work Project Meeting at Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Working group collaborative discussions contact Linda McMillin, Project Manager (mcmillin@susqu.edu) or Jerry Berberet, (anacjberb@aol.com) for information.)

January 20-22, 2000 AAC&U Annual Meeting: "Greater Expectations," Washington, DC.

February 3-6, 2000 AAHE Faculty Roles and Rewards Conference: "Scholarship Reconsidered Reconsidered," New Orleans (February 2-3 ANAC Faculty Work Project Meeting immediately preceding AAHE Conference).

April 6-8, 2000 ANAC/AAC&U Conference: "Integration of Liberal and Professional Studies: from Aspirations to Improved Practice," at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA (See Conference announcement in this Bulletin.)