Elon University student enjoys her study abroad experience.

Drury President John Moore chairs ANAC communications project.

Valparaiso Provost Roy Austensen addresses Emerging Leaders Workshop.

• ANACSA Coordinator Named; 2005-06 Featured Program Offerings Set
• ANAC Communications Project Plan in Place
• Emerging Leaders Workshop Attracts 75 Participants
• ANAC Members Well-Regarded in US News Rankings
• Fall Enrollments Up on ANAC Member Campuses
• Atlantic Monthly Article Describes ANAC Origins
• New ANAC Website Address (www.anac.org) effective December 1

Brandon Lussier, a 2000 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Hamline University with extensive international experience, including postgraduate study at Kings College in England and a Fulbright to Estonia, was named ANACSA coordinator in August. Brandon will be based at Hamline, where he will be working closely with Kari Fangel, Hamline’s study abroad director. Since his appointment Brandon has been creating ANACSA publicity materials and networking with ANAC member study abroad directors. His email address is blussier01@gw.hamline.edu; telephone 651-523-2497.

Adjustments have been made to the line-up of ANACSA 2005-06 featured program offerings announced in the Summer Bulletin:

All ANAC members are invited to list study abroad programs they sponsor in the ANACSA Program Directory which will appear on the ANACSA website and in ANACSA promotional materials. To be included, such programs should be willing to enroll at least five qualified students from other ANAC member institutions. Study abroad directors were asked to submit program information by November 15 for inclusion in the 2005-06 ANACSA brochure. A deadline has not been set for receiving listings to be posted on the ANACSA website. Email Brandon with program information. The new ANACSA website address is www.hamline.edu/anacsa.

An ANACSA meeting for ANAC study abroad directors and institutional representatives will be held in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 1:00-4:30 pm, just prior to the beginning of the AACU Conference. The agenda will focus on finalizing policies and arrangements regarding the 2005-06 program and initiating planning for 2006-07. ANACSA members wishing to propose featured programs for 2006-07 will be invited to make presentations at this meeting. Both semester and short term programs will be discussed. The meeting agenda will be circulated in December.

ANAC Communications Project Plan in Place

The ANAC executive committee approved a plan for the ANAC communications project in September. President John Moore of Drury University, Presidents Council chair, is serving as communications project chair. John Ross, principal of RossWrites, has been retained as project advisor. The plan was prepared for implementation at a meeting in Chicago, November 17, that included several ANAC member presidents, academic representatives, and marketing and PR directors with input John Moore, John Ross, and ANAC executive director Jerry Berberet received during visits with leaders of higher education associations and journalists in Washington, DC, November 10-11. Potential speakers and a roster of invitees is being prepared for the ANAC Educational Futures Symposium at Drury University, June 13-15, 2005, a highpoint of the project.

Emerging Leaders Workshop Attracts 75 Participants

Seventy-five faculty members and academic and student affairs administrators from sixteen ANAC member institutions participated in the workshop, October 7-9, at Hamline University. Facilitated by Jon Wergin, professor of leadership and change at Antioch University, the workshop featured wide-ranging discussions of theories and methods of leadership development and a special focus on leadership than enables faculty and administrators to work together effectively to advance the missions of their institutions. The workshop was the first in a series of ANAC Academy programs being planned to address professional development needs and issues of faculty and staff at various stages of their higher education careers.

ANAC Members Well-Regarded in US News Rankings

ANAC members continue to be featured prominently in the “Master’s Regional” US News college and university rankings. The late summer 2004 rankings of the eighteen ANAC members placed in the regional category are as follows:

• North – 8. Ithaca 13. Quinnipiac, Simmons (tie) 25. Wagner
• South – 6. Elon 8. Mercer 19. Belmont 29. Hampton
• Midwest – 2. Valparaiso 4. Drake 7. Butler 8. Hamline 10. Evansville 12. Drury 13. Capital 14. North Central
• West – 5. Redlands 9. Pacific Lutheran

In addition to the regional rankings, Russell Sage College of The Sage Colleges was ranked 4th among “Best Comprehensive Colleges – Bachelor’s” in the North.

Fall Enrollments Up on ANAC Member Campuses

ANAC member enrollments increased this fall, a trend for most members of the past decade. At Belmont University enrollment has increased 33 percent in the past four years to a fall 2004 total of 3,959 students, up 9.3 percent over 2003 and nearly 1,000 students since 1998, when fall enrollment was 2,963. Susquehanna University began the fall semester with its tenth straight year of enrollment growth in matriculating its sesquicentennial freshman class, 60 percent of whom were in the top one-fifth of their high school graduating class. While achieving a retention rate of 91 percent, Butler University enrolled 100 more students this fall than last fall. University of Evansville saw advances in both enrollment and student quality (12 freshman National Merit scholars and SAT average of 1145) and Elon University enrollment stood at 4,796, up 200 from fall 2003, with an average freshman SAT of 1170.

Atlantic Monthly Article Describes ANAC Origins

In an October 2004 Atlantic Monthly article, “The Third Way,” President William M. Freeland of Northeastern University cites the founding of the Associated New American Colleges as an illustration of the movement in higher education of the past decade to view liberal education and professional programs as complementary rather than oppositional. What he calls “hybridization” occurred as early as the 1970’s as liberal arts colleges struggling to maintain enrollments added professional programs. By the 1990’s the connection of liberal learning and professional studies began to be seen as a virtue.

Freeland quotes a 1990 letter from President James Appleton of the University of Redlands to the College Board, “While it is important to be concerned about whether the ‘pure’ liberal arts college represents a disappearing segment of the educational market, a more important question may be this: How do we best organize and articulate the relationship between liberal education and professional education?” (p. 142) Freeland then goes on to describe the formation of the Associated New American Colleges, a birthing over which Appleton presided in a meeting of presidents and provosts at the University of Redlands in 1992, that included Ernest Boyer, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Following the Wingspread Conference on the New American College in 1994, ANAC was founded formally at a day-long meeting at the Carnegie Foundation in Princeton in 1995.

New ANAC Website Address (www.anac.org) effective December 1

On December 1, ANAC will have a new website address: www.anac.org. The longtime ANAC website http://anac.vir.org will be operational for a few more months to ferry users to the new site. In the coming months ANAC will also be developing a new website “look” as part of the ANAC communications project.