Susquehanna University columns symbolize the academy's noble purpose.

Steve Good (L), Drury, and Ron Troyer, Drake, share a laugh at the January ANAC Academy planning meeting.

• Members Vote to Establish ANAC Academy
  
• TIAA-CREF Institute Awards Grant for Senior Faculty Survey
  
• ANAC to Move Business Office to Valparaiso University
  
• ANAC Members Prominently Featured in National Conferences

Members Vote to Establish ANAC Academy

As a result of a favorable ANAC member vote to create ANAC Academy, steps are being taken over the next few months to establish the Academy and to initiate programming later this year. ANAC Academy's "mission critical" intent is expressed succinctly in the rationale statement for the Academy:

The premium our information society places on intellectual work has heightened educational needs and expectations, brought growing student diversity and numbers into the academy, and increased higher education competition and cost pressures. These forces in turn have placed new demands on faculty and their colleague academic and student life professionals. By any meaningful measure, higher education's ability to meet these challenges will rise or fall with the quality and productivity of faculty and staff professional practice.

ANAC members are asked to name an ANAC Academy campus coordinator as member representative on the Academy advisory committee and to consider ways campus faculty and staff development activities and programs of the Academy might be coordinated for maximum member benefit. Each member is also asked to create a widely representative campus committee to work with the coordinator to foster institution-wide involvement in the Academy. The campus coordinators will meet as a group at Hampton University, June 17-18, to develop a detailed blueprint for Academy programming and to develop the Academy administrative structure.

TIAA-CREF Institute Awards Grant for Senior Faculty Survey

ANAC has received a $50,000 grant from the TIAA-CREF Institute for a senior faculty survey on late career and retirement issues. The survey will be designed over the spring and summer to be administered online in late September and October. The survey goal to advance faculty-institution cooperation will be similar to that of the 1997 ANAC-Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching survey that launched the Pew-supported ANAC faculty work project and led to publication of A New Academic Compact (Anker 2002).

The new survey is being developed in collaboration with the University of North Carolina and University of Minnesota systems, and will enable comparisons to be made of public and private higher education faculty perceptions at several types of four-year institutions. Survey results will help to design appropriate senior faculty professional development programs, to match senior faculty expertise and interests with institutional needs, to assist faculty and their institutions to plan for retirement transitions, and to make it easier for retiring faculty and their institutions to establish mutually beneficial emeritus status relationships.

Plans call for an initial draft of the survey questionnaire to be circulated among institutional representatives for review and comment in April. Over the summer, Reps will be asked to provide an email list of their institution's faculty age 50 and over, the target audience for online survey completion at the ANAC web site maintained by Creative Analytics. Creative Analytics will also assist in the analysis of survey results. The survey responses of individual faculty will be kept confidential; each participating institution will receive the aggregate responses of its faculty members, as occurred with the 1997 survey.

In late September, senior faculty will be contacted via email and requested to complete the survey by the end of October. Participating institutions will be asked to endorse the survey and to encourage faculty to complete it, in keeping with the goal of achieving a response rate above 50 percent on each participating campus. Survey results will be presented at an early 2004 TIAA-CREF Institute conference and disseminated through Institute and other publications and presentations at other conferences. ANAC will use survey results in developing ANAC Academy programming, as well.

ANAC to Move Business Office to Valparaiso University

Effective July 1, 2003, the ANAC business office will move from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to Valparaiso University. The move both reflects ANAC organizational maturation and enables ANAC to realize the significant cost efficiencies an ANAC member institutional home can offer at a time of higher education belt-tightening. The generous support of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation has nurtured ANAC throughout our formative years and is deeply appreciated. ANAC and Woodrow Wilson will continue to seek opportunities for cooperation when working together promises to be mutually advantageous.

ANAC Members Prominently Featured in National Conferences

ANAC members occupied prominent roles on the programs of the recent AACU and AAHE national conferences in Seattle and Washington, DC, respectively. At AACU, January 22-25, Drury and Pacific Lutheran universities and North Central College presented case studies of study abroad programs that involved additional features such as host country community engagement, faculty development, student-faculty research, and infusion of international content in courses back on the home campus. Belmont and Redlands universities and Ithaca College presented case studies of liberal and professional studies curricular integration and relating integrative curricular offerings to efforts to recruit minority faculty. Mercer University described its program to enhance general education courses through infusions of technology.

At the AAHE conference, March 14-17, Elon University offered a two-session workshop on the orientation and training of department chairs and developing chair capacities for institutional leadership. Ithaca presented the most recent stage of its department-level faculty work project in workload differentiation and Jerry Berberet partnered with Glenn Bucher, executive director of The Boyer Center, in a roundtable discussion of the continuing relevance of Ernest L. Boyer's legacy.

(L to R) Warren Funk, Susquehanna; Greg Youtz, Pacific Lutheran; Francine Navakas, North Central; and Steve Good, Drury; describe member international programs at AACU Conference.