Wagner College in winter.

Chief academic officers Charles Taylor (l), Drury, and Bill Berry, Butler.

Redlands President James Appleton
will keynote Summer Institute.

• Wagner College Receives Prestigious TIAA-CREF 2005 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award
• Butler University to Host First ANAC CFO-CAO Conference, March 17-19
• ANAC June 14-15 Symposium to Address Future of Higher Education
• ANAC Summer Institute 2005, June 15-17, to Examine Faculty/Staff Professional Identity
• ANAC Member Presidents Portray Engaged Leadership in AACU Panel
• Long-time ANAC Member Presidents Announce Plans to Step Down

TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement savings in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields, selected Wagner College as the winner of the 2005 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award. Administered by the TIAA-CREF Institute, the award recognizes faculty development programs that enhance undergraduate teaching and learning. The Hesburgh Award is named in honor of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.

"Wagner College's First Year Program is an excellent example of how universities and colleges can help create the next generation of responsible global citizens," said Herbert M. Allison, Jr., chief executive of TIAA-CREF. "For more than 85 years, TIAA-CREF has been committed to helping foster innovation in the academic and research communities. Wagner's success continues that tradition."

"The TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award is one of the most significant ways we underscore the value of faculty development to enhance student learning," notes Madeleine d'Ambrosio, TIAA-CREF Institute executive director. "We are proud to play a role in supporting and applauding work that demonstrates creativity and effectiveness in this area."

"We are honored to be recognized for the uniqueness and success of our First Year Program," said Wagner President Richard Guarasci. "By giving students a personal reason to learn through involvement in community-based experiences we hope to facilitate critical thinking and communication skills that are necessary for responsible citizenry and civic engagement in the local and global community."

First implemented in 1998, the Wagner First Year Program involves students in community-based experiences and problem-solving linked to classroom topics, providing venues for discussion, reflection, connection-making, and critical thinking. The major educational goal stemming from this relevance-based approach is to begin college-level development of critical thinking and civic thinking skills, together with communication skills and exposure to diversity issues that are necessary for responsible citizenry and civic engagement in the local and global community. (excerpted from TIAA-CREF press release)

Butler University to Host First ANAC CFO/CAO Conference, March 17-19

Most ANAC members will be represented with chief academic and finance officer “teams” at the ANAC CFO/CAO Benchmarking Conference at Butler University, March 17-19. The conference will feature a series of invited speakers on higher education benchmarking and financial planning, joint and separate CFO and CAO roundtable discussions on common problems and best practices, and ways for CFOs and CAOs to collaborate in providing resources for academic programs and improving program efficiency and effectiveness. The list of speakers:

• Russell Abbott, Director of Marketing - Treflie Capital Management
• Christopher Cowen, Managing Director - Prager, Sealy, LLC
• Joe Beare, Vice President - Prager & Sealy, LLC
• David Kadamus, Principal - Sightlines, LLC
• Marvin Turner, Midwest Regional Director - TIAA-CREF
• Lee White, Executive Vice President & Manager - George K. Baum & Co.

ANAC June 14-15 Symposium to Address Future of Higher Education

ANAC has attracted an impressive list of speakers for a two-day symposium, June 14-15, at Drury University to address critical challenges that higher education will face during the coming decade – a changing student body, cost and accountability pressures, new competitors in the higher education marketplace, a continuing need to demonstrate the importance of integrating liberal and professional studies, and the effective design of campus physical spaces to advance learning. The Symposium is intended primarily for senior level administrative and faculty leaders at ANAC member institutions and an invited list of participants from higher education associations and other colleges and universities. A preliminary Symposium program and the registration form can be downloaded from this issue of the Bulletin.

ANAC Summer Institute 2005, June 15-17, to Examine Faculty/Staff Professional Identity

Examining faculty and staff professional identity in light of adaptations to challenges that higher education is expected to face in the future is the focus on ANAC Summer Institute 2005, June 15-17 at Drury University. The Institute will examine how faculty and other professional staff might shape their professional priorities in order both to grow professionally and to meet changing institutional expectations, as well as how they might nurture what they have in common professionally in serving the learning mission of their institutions—in the process sending complementary signals regarding learning to their students.

ANAC members are invited to send teams composed of administrators, faculty, and professional staff and to use the Institute to help in responding to institutional priorities.
Institute sessions will both address strategic and policy issues and provide specific case studies of good practices in areas such as faculty/staff professional development, professional evaluation and feedback, hiring and orienting new faculty and staff, overcoming cultural differences that act as barriers between administrators and faculty, academic and student affairs, and liberal arts and professional studies faculty. The preliminary Institute program and the registration form can be downloaded from this issue of the Bulletin.

ANAC Presidents Portray Engaged Leadership in AACU Panel

Five ANAC member presidents addressed at the January AACU conference in San Francisco what they view as central characteristics of higher education in the future—referred to in the conference theme as the “New Academy.” The session drew a large audience and provoked a lengthy discussion. The participating presidents included John Moore, Drury University, Bobby Fong, Butler University, Jeanne Neff, The Sage Colleges, Leo Lambert, Elon University, and James Appleton, University of Redlands. Excerpts of the presidents’ remarks are contained in the Commentary section of this Bulletin. The session was organized as part of the ANAC communications project effort to increase the contributions of ANAC voices to the national higher education dialogue.

Presidents Bobby Fong (l) and Jim Appleton chat with Ralph Wolf (c), executive director of Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Long-time ANAC Member Presidents Announce Plans to Step Down

In what may signal the largest turnover of ANAC member presidents in recent years, three long-time presidents have announced their intention to retire as president this summer or in 2006. John Moore will step down after the current academic year as president for the past twenty-two years at Drury University. During his distinguished tenure, President Moore oversaw ambitious endowment building and capital construction programs that transformed the campus and nurtured the evolution of an innovative curriculum and an engaged faculty. In the process, Drury developed a national reputation, to use Moore’s term, as a “collegiate university.”

President James Appleton will make a “sidewise” move this summer, retiring as president but becoming University of Redlands chancellor in order to provide leadership in Redlands’ centennial (2007) fundraising campaign. President Appleton has served Redlands since 1986, transforming the campus physically through construction of handsome new buildings, developing corporate and political connections that have resulted in major regional research and academic programs in areas like environmental science and geographic information systems, and strengthening the University-faculty partnership which undergirds a vibrant Redlands intellectual community. In his honor, the University will name its newest building Appleton Hall. Appleton Hall is the latest addition to the Stauffer Science Complex.

President Daniel Cheever has announced that he will retire in summer 2006, after eleven years as president of Simmons College. In his resignation letter posted on the Simmons website, President Cheever noted his satisfaction with Simmons’ capital improvements during his tenure, but said that his greatest satisfaction has come that “Simmons has regained its pride and confidence. We are proud Simmons has affirmed its commitment to women and has given this commitment new relevance for the future.”