Meetings and Conferences

• Registrations Encouraged for ANAC International Education Mini-Conference, January 19
• ANAC Offers Sessions at AACU and AAHE Conferences
• ANAC Meetings at AACU and AAHE Conferences
• AACU/ANAC Conference, April 6-8, 2000—Program Almost Complete
• ANAC Calendar of Coming Event

Registrations Encouraged for ANAC International Education Mini-Conference, January 19

ANAC will sponsor its second International Education Mini-Conference, January 19, 2000, as the opening ANAC event associated with the annual AACU Conference, "Greater Expectations," at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC, January 20-22. (See information on Grand Hyatt reservations in the Meeting and Conference Schedule section of the Bulletin.) The mini-conference will be held in the Farragut Square Room of the Conference Grand Hyatt Hotel. ANAC member faculty and administrators are encouraged to register for the mini-conference by sending name, institutional address, phone number, email address, and $75 registration fee to Ann Kelleher, Dean of Social Sciences, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington 98447-0003. Ann's office will send each registrant a mini-conference schedule and related information. The $75 registration fee will be used to defray speaker, continental breakfast, and refreshment expenses. Registrations should be submitted by January 10.

Keynote speakers will be Christine Corey, Senior Program Specialist in the US Department of Education, who will discuss recent trends in undergraduate international education curriculum development; and Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (UK), who will describe models for overseas professional program internships and projects. In addition a panel of ANAC faculty will discuss designing off campus study in professional programs. Plans for the mini-conference include development of the ANAC study abroad consortium proposed at the 1999 mini-conference and preparing an ANAC curriculum grant proposal in international education that might be submitted to the US Department of Education.

ANAC has developed three sessions on the program of the AACU program at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC, January 20-22:

Thursday, January 20, 2:00-3:00 pm:
Is Integrated Learning Its Own Reward? Moving from Aspiration to Practice

Panel:
Bonnie Hunter, Assistant Provost, Valparaiso University
George Sims, Acting Provost, Belmont University
Catherine Stevenson, Dean of Faculty, and Charles Colarulli, Associate Provost, University of Hartford
Carol Whitfield, Professor of East-West Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
Moderator: Joseph Subbiondo, President, California Institute of Integral Studies

Friday, January 21, 4:00-5:30 pm:
The Shift to Institutional Action in Education for Civic Responsibility

Panel:
Nancy Thomas, Research Associate, New England Resource Center for Higher Education
Marvin Kaiser, Executive Director, Society for Values in Higher Education
Peter Brown, Director, Mercer Center for Community Development, Mercer University
Larry Clausen, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Pacific University
Moderator: Jerry Berberet, ANAC Executive Director

Saturday, January 22, 10:45-11:45 am:
Reframing the Faculty-Institutional Compact to Achieve Greater Expectations

Panel:
Linda McMillin, Project Manager, ANAC Faculty Work Project; Department of History, Susquehanna University
Thomas Longin, Vice President for Programs and Research, Association of Governing Boards
Edward Kavanagh, Associate Provost, Quinnipiac College Moderator: Jerry Berberet, ANAC Executive Director

As in recent years, the annual AACU Conference ("Greater Expectations," January 20-22) and the AAHE Faculty Roles and Rewards Conference (February 3-6) provide opportunities for ANAC project and governance meetings. In addition to the international education mini-conference, ANAC meetings at AACU will include:

• ANAC Committee Meetings (Committee on Strategic Initiatives and Committee on Research and Communications) - Thursday, January 20, 7:15 am (with Continental Breakfast) - McPherson Square Room.
  
• ANAC Institutional Representatives Meeting (two sessions to fit into the tightly scheduled conference): Wednesday, January 19 - 3:00-5:00 pm - Washington Board Room, followed by an institutional representatives dinner at a nearby restaurant to be announced, and Thursday, January 20 - Noon-2:00 pm - Burnham Room (with buffet lunch).

The AAHE Conference ("Scholarship Reconsidered Reconsidered" will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, February 3-6, 2000. ANAC's Faculty Work Project will meet beginning with dinner at 6:00 pm in the Prytania Room, followed by Working Group meetings from 7:00-9:30 pm in Prytania. Working groups will continue to meet throughout the day on Thursday, February 3, with a culminating plenary session at 3:00 pm to report on tentative conclusions. The Faculty Work Project will hold a final meeting on Sunday, February 6, 11:30-1:00 pm (buffet lunch provided).

Finishing touches are being put on the program of the April 6-8 AACU/ANAC Conference, "Integrating Liberal and Professional Studies: From Aspiration to Practice," to be held at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Keynote speakers include Sheldon Rothblatt, distinguished professor of history at UC-Berkeley and Faith Gabelnick, President of Pacific University. A core feature of the program will be case studies of liberal-professional studies integration at all types of institutions, including a number of presentations from ANAC institutions that are participating in ANAC's project for integration of liberal and professional studies in the major supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. A special panel of representatives from professional accrediting associations (business, nursing, engineering, education) will discuss the opportunities for program integration that the professional accreditation affords. Special attention will be given to strategies for overcoming institutional obstacles for colleges and universities that wish to move in this direction. Excursions to enrich Conference participants' visit to the "Great Northwest" will include an evening at the spectacular new Washington State Historical Museum and trips to Mt. Ranier and Seattle.

Registration packets will be in the mail in the next few weeks. Contact Jerry Berberet (anacjberb@aol.com or phone 850-927-3948) or Eliza Reilly (reilly@aacu.nw.dc.us or phone 202-884-7421) for more information.

January 20-22 — AAC&U Annual Meeting: "Greater Expectations," Washington, DC (January 19 - pre-AACU Conference ANAC International Education 2000 Mini-conference; January 19-20 - ANAC Institutional Representatives Winter Meeting. See related Bulletin stories.)

February 2 — pre-NAICU Conference ANAC Presidents Council Meeting, 8:30-Noon, Hyatt Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC (tentative)

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

February 11-12 — ANAC Chief Finance Officers Benchmarking Conference at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (Contact Jerry Berberet, anacjberb@aol.com, or call 850-927-3948, for further information.)

March 19 — pre-NASPA Conference ANAC Chief Student Affairs Officers Meeting at Butler University, Indianapolis. Tentatively, 11:30am - 5:00pm.(Contact Jerry Berberet, anacjberb@aol.com, for further information.)

March 31-April 1 — Third Annual Drury College Undergraduate / Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference. Deadline for student and faculty presentation abstracts: December 17. (For further details see Conference web site: http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/cfp00.html, or contact Dr. Lisa Marie Esposito: lesposit@lib.drury.edu, or call 417-873-7229.)

April 6-8 — ANAC/AAC&U Conference: "Integration of Liberal and Professional Studies: from Aspiration to Improved Practice," at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. ANAC Hewlett Project Meetings: 2-5 pm, April 6, and 4-9 pm, April 8. (Contact Eliza Reilly at AACU: reilly@aacu.nw.dc.us or Jerry Berberet: anacjberb@aol.com for information. Watch for Conference program mailing in November and schedule and hotel information in December Bulletin.)

June 14-17 — ANAC Summer Institute at Ithaca College (Institute information will be available at campus academic affairs offices in January.)

October 5-8 — Association for Integrative Studies: "Interdisciplinarity: Values in Conflict," 22nd Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. Deadline for submission of Conference Presentation form, March 30. (For Conference details see Conference web site: http://www.muohio.edu/AIS, or contact Sherry Stock: svhe@unidial.com, or call 503-721-6520; or contact William Newell: newellwh@muohio.edu, or call 513-529-2213.)