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• Aid for Katrina Victims: Admissions, Financial, Clothing, and Food
• ANAC Decade Reception, Tributes and DVD Presentation, January 27
• ANAC “New Look” Website (www.anac.org)
• Summer Institute 2006 and CFO Benchmarking Conference – Register Soon
• ANAC Members Well-Regarded for International Programs
• ANAC Executive Committee Meeting, September 28

Two Valparaiso law students, Edward Fetters and Chad Montgomery , are taking a break from their studies this fall to help victims of Katrina.

• Belmont admitted displaced students and is sending their tuition payments to their home institutions.
• Capital waived tuition and room and board for the fall semester for up to ten displaced undergraduates and the Law School accepted second and third-year students as visitors for the fall. Students, faculty, and staff volunteered and raised funds to aid devastated Gulf residents.
• Drake students held a variety of fundraising events for hurricane victims. In addition, Drake law students worked with law students across the country to compile a legal advice manual to assist lawyers in the Gulf states.
• Hampton opened its doors to students at Xavier and Dillard universities and is providing them with information technology assistance in their recovery efforts.
• Ithaca offered admission to children of alumni and any New York State resident enrolled at a hurricane devastated institution and financial aid to those in need. In addition the Ithaca College community raised $44,000 for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
• North Central set up an admissions hot line for affected students and offered residence hall rooms to Chicago-area women students from its sister institution Dillard.
• Redlands offered fall enrollment to up to 15 students from California and western states and launched a relief fundraising effort.
• Susquehanna has organized a semester break mission trip for 25 student volunteers to travel to the Gulf to assist with disaster recovery efforts.
• Valparaiso raised more than $32,000 for hurricane relief. Several students are spending the semester volunteering in hurricane recovery areas. The Black Student Organization collected 200 lbs of canned food, clothing, baby products, and other goods for hurricane relief.
• Wagner offered admission to displaced students from New York and New Jersey.
• Westminster offered visiting student status to student victims and student government organized a fund drive for hurricane relief.

Elon students made a fall break service trip to provide Hurricane Katrina relief assistance to the Gulfport, Miss., area.

It has been fifteen years since Frank Wong, provost at the University of Redlands, penned an essay, “The Ugly Duckling of Higher Education,” and more than ten years since Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, called for a “New American College” that would renew the tradition of higher education service to society that he associated with the colonial liberal arts college and the land grand university system founded during the Civil War. Boyer spoke before a large crowd at the 1994 annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

The legacies of Wong and Boyer will be remembered, Friday evening, January 27, at the ANAC Decade Reception—fittingly at the 2006 AAC&U annual meeting. The event will commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the founding, with Boyer present, of the Associated New American Colleges in November 1995, at Carnegie headquarters, then in Princeton, New Jersey.

The reception will begin at 6:00 pm in Constitution E of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H Street, NW. A program to recognize pivotal contributions to ANAC and to unveil a multi-media presentation of the evolution and significance of the New American College and ANAC founding and programs will begin at 6:45 pm. Reception guests are invited to linger to enjoy the reunion atmosphere of the reception with friends and colleagues.

ANAC member faculty and staff and ANAC friends across higher education are invited to join with us to observe this commemorative occasion. If you plan to attend, drop Jerry Berberet an email (anacjberb@aol.com) by January 15, 2006, to help with reception planning.

Hal Wilde, President, North Central College.

In the coming weeks, ANAC members will be invited to register faculty/professional staff teams for the 2006 ANAC Summer Institute, “Growing Together: Institutions and Their Next Generation of ANAC Member Faculty and Professional Staff.” Summer Institute 2006 will be held at North Central College, June 14-16. The Institute will focus on the early career acculturation of faculty and professional staff to the distinctive mission and character of the ANAC institutional model, roles veteran faculty and staff can play in this process, and ways institutions might support the professional development needs of faculty and staff at various stages of their careers. The Institute program will combine recognized guest speakers, case studies of ANAC member model programs and good practices, and faculty and staff “affinity group” discussions.

Institute plenary guest speakers include:

• Roberts Jones, President, Education & Workforce Policy, LLC
• Mary Deane Scorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development; Director, Center For Teaching; and Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Research Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Estela Mara Bensimon, Professor of Higher Education, Division of Educational Policy and Administration, and Director of the Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California
• Sherril Gelmon, Professor of Public Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University

To enhance the institutional value of the summer institute, ANAC members are invited to register a team prepared to use the Institute as a planning opportunity for addressing a strategic institutional priority related to faculty/staff professional development.

Registration for the annual ANAC CFO benchmarking conference at the University of Redlands, March 23-25, 2006, will also begin soon. The preliminary program includes an analysis of results to date in the CFO net tuition revenue study of institutional financial health and ratio analysis of member audited financial statements in collaboration with Applied Policy Research Associates of Minneapolis and Prager, Sealy LLC of San Francisco; a presentation on strategic non-core function out-sourcing by Bridger LLC, and CFO roundtable discussions on such topics as institutional financial, energy, technology, and facilities issues.

North Central campus.

Two recent sources underscore the strength of international programs at ANAC member institutions. The November Open Doors 2005 annual report on international education published by the Institute of International Education funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ranks Elon University in the top ten of smaller institutions where more than 40% of students study abroad and Ithaca College and University of Redlands in the top twenty. According to the report, the number of students studying abroad increased 9.6% in 2003-04, after an increase of 8.5% in 2002-03.

The second testimonial comes from the recent announcement that AAC&U has selected Butler University and Drury University to participate in a new national initiative, “General Education for Global Learning.” AAC&U has chosen sixteen public and private institutions of all types from 89 applications to participate in the project, based on the strength of their existing general education programs and their readiness to move forward with international general education curricula impacting all students international knowledge and ability to address global problems.