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| ANAC Data Exchange, NSSE Consortium, and Model Programs Advance Benchmarking and Best Practices |
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| Expanding and improving data gathering for benchmarking purposes is a major goal of the ANAC decade communications project. To augment the ANAC Data Exchange (now configured for member comparisons and benchmarking uses), ANAC has created an ANAC member National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data consortium which will allow for comparisons of NSSE means within ANAC and in comparison with all NSSE institutions and other Carnegie Master’s participants. ANAC is also gathering descriptions of member academic programs and institutional best practices from which to develop “stories” providing insights to member college and university differentiating features. |
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| ANAC Strengthens Ties with National Higher Education Associations |
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A key feature of the ANAC communications project is to expand ties with the national associations that serve independent higher education. For example, this year ANAC joined the Secretariat of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). The Secretariat is a group of affiliated national and state private college associations and consortiums who stay in touch with governmental regulations and political issues that affect independent higher education through the Secretariat.
Another focus of this initiative is ANAC sponsorship of sessions featuring member case studies, reports, and issue analysis at institutes and annual meetings and conferences of these national groups. For example, in early November, ANAC presented a report and policy implications on results of its 2003 survey with the universities of Minnesota and North Carolina of late career faculty, including factors that cause faculty to retire early or to delay retirement.
ANAC will sponsor three sessions at the January 26-28 annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). One session is a panel of presidents on future challenges the academy faces, another is on liberal learning in the sciences, and the third is a panel of professional program deans on aims and issues in professional studies.
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Also on the docket for 2006, ANAC member chief student affairs officers will present a NASPA (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators) conference session in March on collaboration between student life and academic affairs to align student experiential learning with learning in the classroom. ANAC will lead a roundtable discussion on issues of the late faculty career and planning for retirement at the Association of Governing Boards (AGB) annual conference in Orlando in early April. ANAC has also proposed sessions for the annual February conference of the American Council on Education (ACE) and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) conference in July.
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| ANACSA Enrolls Students for Spring 2006, Announces Offerings for 2006-07; January 25 Meeting Agenda |
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| By Brandon Lussier, ANACSA Coordinator
We're excited to report that ANAC Study Abroad is catching on with study abroad advisors! In Spring 2006, our second semester of operation, five students will be taking advantage of the consortium: three from Ithaca College will study in Volos, Greece (Drury University featured program); one from Quinnipiac University and one from Wagner College will study in Salzburg, Austria (University of Redlands program).
ANACSA members have received the new promotional materials for Fall 2006 and Spring 2007, which were mailed to member study abroad directors in late October. These materials contain detailed program information to provide study abroad advisors with an effective tool for explaining program features to students..
The annual ANACSA planning meeting for member chief academic officers and study abroad advisors will be held in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, January 25, 1:00-5:00 pm—just prior to the AAC&U conference. Among the agenda items:
- Consider launch of an ANACSA strategic planning process for the coming three-five years that would result in action steps and goals to ensure the consortium grows in serving all member institutions.
- Assess interest in a domestic student exchange program administered through ANACSA.
- Consider a United States Walkabout program to provide international students an opportunity to experience several ANAC member institutions in different regions of the country in one visit to the U.S.
The full meeting agenda, as well as the meeting location, will be circulated in the near future. In the meantime, direct questions to Brandon Lussier at 651-523-2649, or blussier01@hamline.edu.
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| ANAC Member 2005-2006 Directory Posted at www.anac.org |
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A useful feature of the new ANAC website is an online directory of contact information for chief officers, deans, directors, department chairs, and faculty leaders at member institutions and officers and professional staff at national higher education associations who have interactions with ANAC. The directory is in Excel format and designed for easy use.
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