The F. W. Olin Library on
the Drury campus.

Hamline associate dean Alzada Tipton speaks at Emerging Leaders Workshop.

• June 2005 Symposium on Educational Futures at Drury to be Highlight of Communications Project
• Summer Institute 2005: Professional Identity and a Responsive Future Academy
• ANAC Data Exchange: Expanding the Focus on Outcomes and Benchmarking
• ANAC Member IReps and CFOs Plan Joint Benchmarking Conference, March 17-19, 2005
• ANAC to Co-Sponsor International Bridge Colloquium, March 6-9, 2005
• Smart Start Designed to Increase New Student Retention

June 2005 Symposium on Educational Futures at Drury to be Highlight of Communications Project

Preliminary planning is underway for an ANAC national symposium on the future of higher education to be held June 13-15, 2005 at Drury University, just prior to the 2005 ANAC Summer Institute at Drury. The symposium will feature speakers and panelists on a broad range of issues, as well as ANAC affinity group meetings and discussions. A broad cross-section of the higher education community will be invited to participate in the symposium. President John Moore of Drury will host and welcome participants. The symposium will also serve as a culminating event in the first phase of the ANAC communications project. The preliminary symposium program will be discussed at the Presidents Council and institutional representative meetings in January.

Summer Institute 2005: Professional Identity and a Responsive Future Academy

With its emphasis on faculty and staff professional development, ANAC Summer Institute 2005, June 15-18, will address faculty and staff professionalism as their institutions focus on the challenges of a future sketched during the symposium at Drury earlier in the week. In particular the Institute will seek to nurture a professional identity that reinforces a common purpose among faculty and staff in serving the learning mission of their institutions. The implications of a professional identity cutting across the institution will be explored regarding faculty/staff roles and responsibilities, evaluation and rewards, and institutional and community service. As in the past, ANAC members will be invited to send institutional teams to the Institute that are composed of faculty and administrators prepared to use Institute presentations and discussions as grist in addressing high priority institutional issues.

In combination with the ANAC futures symposium at Drury earlier in the week, the Institute will also serve as the 2005 ANAC “annual meeting” and the program will include affinity group roundtables and a special plenary to link the symposium and Institute. Following a review of Institute plans at the January meetings of the ANAC Academy coordinators and institutional representatives, the Institute information packet will be circulated and institutions will be invited to register teams for Summer Institute 2005.

ANAC Data Exchange: Expanding the Focus on Outcomes and Benchmarking

Submission of 2003-04 ANAC member institutional data to the ANAC Data Exchange is almost complete, a prelude for using the comparisons and benchmarking tool for institutional planning, budgeting, and other purposes. ANAC is moving to expand member ability to compare and benchmark outcomes by creating a National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) consortium of ANAC members. CFOs are working with Prager, Sealy, LLC and Sightlines, LLC to expand current financial ratio analyses using audited financial statements to examine additional financial data to enhance institutional resource planning in particular areas such as financial aid, physical plant management, and academic support.

ANAC Member IReps and CFOs Plan Joint Benchmarking Conference, March 17-19

To strengthen collaborative financial analysis and planning regarding academic resources, ANAC member chief academic and finance officers will meet in a joint conference at Butler University, March 17-19, 2005. In addition to taking advantage of ANAC’s expanding benchmarking efforts, the conference will be an opportunity for sharing perspectives and best practices that will enhance mutual understanding and strengthen working relationships. Members are invited to register for the conference in the coming weeks.

ANAC to Co-Sponsor First International Bridge Colloquium, March 6-9, 2005

ANAC is serving as a co-sponsor of the First International Bridge Colloquium, March 6-9, 2005, a gathering of colleges and universities around the world that reflect best practices in institutional integration. The Colloquium will be held at Dominican University in San Rafael, just north of San Francisco. It will examine diverse examples of the “integrative institution,” including linkages (or “bridges”) such as liberal-professional, undergraduate-graduate, campus-community, two- and four-year, and free-standing graduate and professional in their various public and private, non-profit and profit, and technological manifestations. The Colloquium goal will be to gain fuller understanding of the institutional options available and the possibilities for greater international interaction in meeting the educational needs of the 21st century.

Preparations for the conferences are being spearheaded by William Bergquist, whom many in ANAC will remember as author of The Vitality of Senior Faculty Members (ERIC, 1997) and a popular speaker at the ANAC Summer Institute. ANAC members are invited to propose presentations for the Colloquium. Colloquium registration materials will be available in December. Contact Jerry Berberet (anacjberb@aol.com, 850-927-3948) for further information regarding submission of presentation proposals (no more than 2 pages in length) due by January 15, 2005, addressed to: William Bergquist, P.O. Box 70, Harpwell, Maine 04079, or whbergquist@aol.com, 207-833-5124.

Small group discussion at ANAC Emerging Leaders Workshop.

Smart Start Designed to Increase New Student Retention

Former Mercer University chief student affairs officer Melinda K. Dalgarn has developed a comprehensive new student survival and retention program that features a CD, “Smart Start: A Survival Guide for First Year College Students (and their parents too!”) Smart Start is both an effective tool for helping students and their parents in the pre-college transition to college and for use in freshman orientation programs. Smart Start addresses topics ranging from adjusting to a new roommate and healthful living to developing effective study skills and learning the value of the liberal arts. It also provides tips for parents as their sons and daughters head off to college in a special series of quarterly publications, See Them Soar, to help parents understand and support their student’s experiences during their first college year. Smart Start and See Them Soar may be ordered online at www.collegesurvivalguides.com and interested persons may contact Melinda Dalgarn at melindadalgarn@aol.com.