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• Ithaca College Sustainability Initiative Highlights: April North American Summit on Sustainable Development and $7 Million Gift
• PLU Completes $128 Million Campaign; Signs Talloires Declaration
• Simmons Launches Nation’s 1st Center on Home & Community Health and Hygiene; Partners with Harvard to Help Iraq’s Libraries
• Elon School of Business Receives AACSB Accreditation
• Sage Colleges Marketing Brochure Wins Award
• Capital Law School Observes Centennial; Hamline Law School Nationally Ranked
• Quinnipiac Creates College of Professional Studies; Capital Establishes Center for Computational Studies
• Hamline Partnership to Serve Non-Profit Management Education
• Hampton “On the Road to the Presidency” Summit, November 11-13
• Ithaca and Capital Hold Undergraduate Research Conferences
• Evansville and Ithaca Hold Conferences on International, Digital Communications, and Humanities Topics
• Mercer University Press Celebrates 25th Anniversary
• Famed for Drake Relays, Drake Stadium Undergoes Renovation; Drury Joins New Athletic Conference

Ithaca College Sustainability Initiative Highlights: April North American Summit on Sustainable Development and $7 Million Gift

As part of a plan to become one of the nation’s first academic institutions to incorporate sustainability business and management practices into its curriculum and daily operations, Ithaca College hosted the North American Summit on Sustainable Development on April 6-7. The Summit assembled representatives from business, government, non-governmental organizations, and the professions, as well as academic and community leaders. It featured keynote remarks by Mathis Wackernagel, coordinator of the Center for Sustainability Studies at Mexico’s Universidad Anahuac de Xalapa and co-creator of the “ecological footprint,” a widely used accounting method for measuring the rate at which humanity is consuming the Earth’s natural resources.

As part of the sustainability initiative, the College received a $7 million gift from the Park Foundation to construct the nation’s first sustainably designed new facility for an undergraduate business program. In addition to being designed to exceed the highest level of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) standards of the U.S. Green Building Council, the new school will promote social justice and environmental stewardship in its curriculum. Ithaca College is also undertaking a feasibility study for a regional sustainability initiative in which it would partner with the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, Cornell University, and other public and private sector organizations in the region.

PLU Completes $128 Million Campaign; Signs Talloires Declaration

In May Pacific Lutheran University completed the most successful fundraising campaign ever for an independent university in the Pacific Northwest. Launched in 1998, “The Campaign for Pacific Lutheran University: The Next Bold Step” raised $128 million, easily surpassing its $100 million goal. In addition to major construction and renovation of campus buildings, the campaign underwrote new programs, endowed chairs, research grants, and faculty development, and significantly increased the value of PLU’s endowment.

In a sustainability initiative with implications similar to those at Ithaca, PLU signed the Talloires Declaration on Earth Day 2004, April 22. The ten point Talloires Declaration is a university commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education which has been signed by more than 100 universities in over 40 countries. It calls for a systematic campus approach to sustainability in curriculum, management practices, faculty development, research undertakings, and partnerships with schools, community groups, businesses, and governments at the local, national, and international levels.

Simmons Launches Nation’s 1st Center on Home & Community Health and Hygiene; Partners with Harvard to Help Iraq’s Libraries

Simmons College has established the nation’s first center on health and hygiene in the home and community. Designed to help the public better understand ways to minimize the growing risk of infections acquired in the community, the center will be a national and international information resource on hygiene, with special attention to the elderly, children, and pregnant women. In addition to making recommendations for hygiene practice, training, and research, the center will sponsor conferences, courses, and certificate programs in hygiene and health. The center is based at the Simmons School for Health Studies and the Department of Biology.

In response to the devastation of war on Iraq’s libraries, the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Harvard University library system are launching a joint program to aid in modernizing Iraqi libraries and provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists. The program was launched with a librarians’ conference in Amman, Jordan in May, at which Iraqi librarians identified their most pressing training, collection development, and modernization needs.

Elon and Mercer Business Schools Awarded AACSB International Accreditation

The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University and the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University were awarded AACSB International accreditation in April. In achieving this distinction, Elon and Mercer join 418 business schools (out of 1500 business schools) in the United States with AACSB accreditation, part of a trend toward seeking professional accreditation among ANAC member institutions.

Sage Colleges Marketing Brochure Wins Award

For Bulletin readers who noticed the striking Russell Sage College viewbook image of a young woman in the Spring 2004 issue: the brochure has won a gold ADDY Award at the district level. The stylized “universal woman” drawing was designed to blend characteristics of the multiple ethnicities and cultures represented in the variety of women who apply for admission at Russell Sage. The ADDY Awards is the largest creative competition in the country with about 55,000 local entries competing in 200 cities coast to coast. The competition is sponsored by the American Advertising Foundation.

Capital Law School Observes Centennial: Hamline Law School Nationally Ranked

Capital University recently celebrated its Law School centennial. In addition to the 100th anniversary gala event, Capital commissioned a history of the law school to be written by corporate historian and former journalist Peter D. Franklin. The Hamline University School of Law dispute resolution program has been ranked fourth in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best law schools and specialty programs. This year’s ranking marks the fourth consecutive year that the Hamline program has been ranked in the top five nationally. Others in the top five include Harvard and Pepperdine universities.

Quinnipiac Creates College of Professional Studies; Capital Establishes Center for Computational Studies

Quinnipiac University announces the establishment of the College of Professional Studies to begin classes in Fall 2004, offering a new bachelor of science degree in organizational leadership. The new college has a particular mission to meet educational interests of adult students returning to college. The major in organizational leadership has been created around five core areas key to leadership: self development, team process, project management, customer focus and quality. Students must be at least 22 years of age and have a minimum of thirty transferable college credits to enroll.

Capital University’s new Center for Computational Studies will be an interdisciplinary undergraduate hub to enrich majors in behavioral sciences, chemistry, economics, environmental science, management, and pre-engineering. The center offers a computational science across the curriculum program. It was made possible through grants from the National Science Foundation, Battelle Memorial Institute, and the W. M. Keck Foundation.

Hamline Partnership to Serve Non-Profit Management Education

The Hamline University Graduate School of Public Administration and Management has created a Nonprofit Institute to partner with the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches to provide management skills to local nonprofit immigrant and refugee services, healthcare and correctional aftercare, and other community-based organizations. Forth-three local groups are participating in what is a federally funded faith-based and community initiative. The project is supported by a grant of $532,000 from the US Department of Health and Human Services to the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, the largest council of churches in the nation with 700 member congregations representing 600,000 people. Hamline will offer a 70 hour certificate in nonprofit management to representatives of the participating community organizations.

Hampton “On the Road to the Presidency” Summit, November 11-13

Hampton University’s annual Executive Leadership Summit: “On the Road to the Presidency” will be offered, November 11-12, 2004. The Summit is designed as a bridge-building professional development experience for leaders at diverse colleges and universities and other institutions who aspire to become presidents, chancellors, provosts, and other senior executive positions. The Summit is the inspiration of Hampton President William R. Harvey, whose leadership over the past twenty-five years has transformed the University. For further information, email Summit coordinator, Martha E. Dawson (Martha.dawson@hamptonu.edu).

Ithaca and Capital Hold Undergraduate Research Conferences

Undergraduate research is alive and well on ANAC member campuses. Ithaca and Capital are among those who hold annual conferences for students to present their findings. The James J. Whalen Academic Symposium at Ithaca featured presentations from all undergraduate colleges and included research in interdisciplinary areas such as environmental and international studies. Capital’s Eighth Annual Symposium on Undergraduate Scholarship involved hundreds of students presenting on topics ranging from the science of mummification and post-September 11 theology to a mathematical approach to “The Da Vinci Code.”

Undergraduate research has been proposed as a way for ANAC member faculty to network at the discipline level. A meeting of member faculty involved with undergraduate research was held in April in Indianapolis at the National Council on Undergraduate Research conference to discuss common interests and possible development of such a network.

Evansville and Ithaca Hold Conferences on International, Digital Communications, and Humanities Topics

President Stephen Jennings of the University of Evansville hosted the International Roundtable for College Presidents at Evansville’s Harlaxton campus in England in June. The gathering both provided for an exchange of views among presidents in an international setting and provided Evansville with a useful review of the Harlaxton program. The Harlaxton program will be one of the study abroad opportunities that will be available in the ANAC Study Abroad program (ANACSA) which gets underway in Fall 2005.

Ithaca College held two several-day faculty development conferences this spring. In May, as part of a William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant, Ithaca hosted a conference on uses and influences of digital technology on humanities instruction. Ithaca’s Summer Faculty Institute on Civic Engagement through Service Learning, June 1-4, focused on the integration of service learning experiences across the curriculum.

Mercer University Press Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Mercer University is celebrating this year the 25th anniversary of the Mercer University Press. Founded in1979, the Mercer press has published more than 1,000 books, including Cecil P. Staton, Jr., A Sturdy American Hybrid: Associated New American Colleges (2003). The press has a staff of ten members and publishes works primarily on subjects of history, philosophy, religion, and Southern studies.

Famed for Drake Relays, Drake Stadium Undergoes Renovation; Drury Joins New Athletic Conference

With two recent $1 million gifts, Drake University is in the homestretch of a major renovation of Drake Stadium, home of the famed Drake Relays track meet each spring. The project is designed to bring the track up to international standards in order to continue world-class competitions expected to have a $300 million economic impact over the next ten years.

Drury University has announced that it will join the Great Lakes Valley Conference, for athletics competition beginning in the 2005-06 academic year. The Great Lakes Valley Conference is NCAA Division II and will have fourteen public and private university members when Drury teams begin conference play.