A view of the Hampton University campus.

Rose window at entrance of Pacific Lutheran University's Eastvold Chapel.

• Summer Institute to Focus on Linking Academic and Student Affairs
  
• ANACTE Connects ANAC Member Schools of Education
  
• ANAC Chief Finance Officers Address Tough Issues at PLU
  
• ANAC Data Exchange Open for 2001-02 Benchmarking
  
• International Programs Planning Group to Meet May 25 at NAFSA

Summer Institute to Focus on Linking Academic and Student Affairs

The 2003 ANAC Summer Institute, June 18-21, on Hampton University's beautiful campus ("Our Home by the Sea") will probe the connections and intersections for learning that differentiate the ANAC institutional model in advancing the robust learning outcomes our complex information society and global system require. These outcomes will be pursued in the context of the changing demographic profile of our student bodies, the values entering students bring to the academy, and new dynamics in society that impact expectations of higher education and the particular challenges private comprehensive colleges and universities face.

The Institute will address integrative learning strategies with broad curricular and cocurricular applications, such as structured dialogues and community-based learning. Models for designing effective learning environments linking academic and student life, campus and community/study abroad, and liberal and professional studies programs, and institutional strategies for implementing, sustaining, and rewarding best practices will be considered.

Questions to be addressed include: What do we need to know about our diverse students and patterns in the larger society to best serve our students' educational needs? How does integration of theory and practice, academic and student affairs, and the academy and the community create a better teaching and learning environment, while contributing to liberal learning and civic purposes? What methods have been successful and worthy of replication? What new experiments are underway? How can we learn from our efforts involving traditional age undergraduates and our work with professional and graduate program students for the benefit of all?

The Institute will be designed to assist member campus teams to evaluate needs and to plan programs responding to priorities involving learning and students at their institutions. Members are encouraged to send widely representative teams of at least five persons, including at least one faculty member, one department chair, and one dean level or above academic administrator, but also persons such as an interdisciplinary program director and a director level or above student affairs administrator. Teams are asked to register for the Institute by May 1, and to submit by May 15, a one-page statement of their institutional priority/issue to be addressed at the Institute.

The Institute program features a variety of activities and experiences:

• Provocative speakers and facilitators, some whose work will be available in advance.
  
• Sharing of best practices via roundtables, institutional case studies, and poster sessions.
  
• Stimulating and engaging workshops, town meeting, and small group discussions.
  
• Opportunities for affinity group, institutional team, and informal conversations.
  
• Availability of resource consultants to institutional teams.
  
• An evening dinner cruise aboard the Spirit of Norfolk, Hampton University Museum, Emancipation Oak, historic Chapel, and other facilities.

The Institute begins at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, June 18, and ends with lunch on Saturday, June 21. The Hampton area's rich historical sites (Jamestown, Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg, Fort Monroe, and several museums) offer enticing pre- and post-Institute excursions. (Registration form attached at end of Bulletin. Preliminary program will be posted in mid-April at ANAC website - http://www.anac.org. Click on "Upcoming ANAC Events" link on ANAC homepage.)

ANACTE Connects ANAC Member Schools of Education

ANACTE (Associated New American Colleges of Teacher Education) has developed a network of teacher educators at ANAC member institutions. Founded in 2001, ANACTE has a mission is to provide a forum for professional collaboration and exchange among ANAC members and their schools/departments of education on teacher education issues. ANACTE is interested in a wide spectrum of issues and programs, including accreditation, professional development, urban teacher preparation, child development, and professional scholarship. ANACTE publishes a newsletter and maintains a website (www.anacte.org). Terry Hudson, Drury University, is ANACTE's new president; Therese Kiley, Hamline University, is president-elect; Eunice Merideth, Drake University, is secretary/treasurer; Ed Williamson, Drury, newsletter editor; and Barbara Landau, University of Redlands, is past president. (See Terry Hudson's guest commentary, "Rhetoric into Reality: Impacting Teacher Education," in the Commentary section of this Bulletin.)

ANAC Chief Finance Officers Address Tough Issues at PLU

ANAC member CFO's held their fourth annual benchmarking conference at Pacific Lutheran University, February 26-27. Invited speaker sessions and roundtable discussions alike reflected efforts to use debt effectively and to find new types of endowment investments to fund capital improvements and maintain educational quality in soft economic times. The conference featured a workshop to interpret six-years of ANAC member audited financial statements led by Chris Cowan and Fritz Weis of Prager and Sealy, a round-up of national higher education financial issues led by Larry Goldstein of Campus Strategies, and presentations on alternative investments by PLU trustee Don Morkin, faculty retirement patterns and issues by Ray Schmierer of TIAA-CREF Institute, and the US Green Building Council certification process for new campus construction by LEED's Johanna Sands.

ANAC CFO's view Sheri Tonn's classic car collection.

ANAC Data Exchange Open for 2001-2002 Benchmarking

The ANAC Data Exchange benchmarking program is now available for members to make data comparisons with four years of member institutional data, including that for 2001-02. Members must click on the Exchange link on the ANAC website homepage (http://www.anac.org) and enter their institution username and password to enter the Exchange. The latter are available through the member Exchange representative in institutional research. Members will have the opportunity to make corrections in their 2001-02 data submissions and/or to complete 2001-02 data entry through April. Data entry for 2002-03 will begin in May.

International Programs Planning Group to Meet May 25 at NAFSA

The ANAC international programs planning group is inviting ANAC member study abroad advisors and international program directors to participate in a pre-NAFSA conference planning meeting in Salt Lake City on Sunday, May 25. The meeting will focus on identifying study abroad programs where collaboration will be most beneficial, opportunities for effective use of ANAC member facilities abroad, and joint grant-seeking possibilities. A listserv is being created of member international education advisors and directors. Outcomes of the meeting will be included in the planning group June report to ANAC presidents and institutional representatives