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| A Capital University student in the new language lab in Battelle Hall. |
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| ANAC CFO Benchmarking Conference Focuses on Institutional Financial Health |
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Sheri Tonn, CFO at Pacific
Lutheran University. |
ANAC member CFOs held their seventh annual benchmarking conference, March 23-25, at the University of Redlands. Featuring project reports, roundtable discussions, and invited speaker remarks, the conference enabled CFOs to analyze and consider actions on a range of measures of institutional financial health, e.g., net tuition revenue, use of debt, expenditure patterns, and cost saving possibilities in non-academic areas. Phil Doolittle, host CFO, and his executive assistant Dina Guthrie, organized a very satisfying conference, including lodging at the famous Mission Inn in Riverside, a tour of state-of-the-art University science and cogeneration plant facilities, and a post-conference outing to the Temecula wine country.
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| Gerald Whittington, CFO at Elon University. |
Conference speakers included Bill Hall, President of Applied Policy Research (a firm specializing in tuition pricing and financial aid); John Krieger, President of Bridger (managing indirect costs); Larry Goldstein, founder of Campus Strategies (accounting environment & government policies); Jay Morley, retiring President of NACUBO (building organizational capacity); Holly Coleman, Vice President, and Saul Rosenbaum, Managing Director, of Prager, Sealy & Co. (financial ratio analysis); and David Kadamus, Principal of Sightlines (physical plant management and energy analysis).
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Jerry Berberet presents ANAC CFO plaque of appreciation
to retiring NACUBO president Jay Morley. |
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| ANAC Chief Student Affairs Officers Meet and Present NASPA Session |
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| Smith Jackson, Elon University. |
ANAC chief student affairs officers met March 13, in Washington, DC, in connection with the annual NASPA conference. Items for discussion included programming strategies for student affairs in serving the diverse students who enroll at ANAC member institutions, building an ANAC network of student affairs officers, and planning for participation in the 2006 ANAC Summer Institute at North Central. Four meeting participants: Tracy Tyree, Susquehanna; Smith Jackson, Elon; Char Burgess, Redlands; and Doug Pearson, Mercer; presented a NASPA conference session on experiential learning case studies involving program collaboration between academic and student affairs.
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| Tracy Tyree (l) introduces ANAC CSAO panel at NASPA. |
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| Trustees Express Interest in ANAC Faculty Surveys at AGB National Conference |
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Jerry Berberet led a roundtable discussion on results of the 2003 ANAC survey of late career faculty at the April 1-3 annual conference of the Association of Governing Boards in Orlando, FL. In addition to interest in late career faculty contributions and retirement plans, many trustees expressed concerns about college and university ability to recruit and retain the large numbers of new faculty members that will be required as the large cohort of senior faculty retire. ANAC and the University of Minnesota system are arranging to partner with the TIAA-CREF Institute, which underwrote the late career survey, on a survey of early career faculty values, aspirations, and professional development needs to assist a successful transition to the professoriate that will be the backbone of institutional quality and well-being in the future.
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| ANACSA Sets Future Priorities in Planning Process |
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ANAC Study Abroad (ANACSA) launched a strategic priorities planning process at the January 25, 2006 meeting of study abroad directors and chief academic officers in Washington, DC. A committee of provosts and directors is developing program recommendations to present at the May 22 meeting of ANACSA in Montreal, recommendations that will then be discussed at the Institutional Representative and Presidents Council meetings June 14. The top three priorities that have emerged are:
- Effective marketing of ANACSA programs on ANAC campuses to increase the number of student participants.
- Creation of ANACSA international faculty development opportunities in order to build faculty identification with ANACSA, participation in ANACSA, and promotion of ANACSA programs among students.
- Creation of ANAC domestic student exchange programs, a U.S. version of ANACSA featured programs abroad.
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| PLU's "On Seven Continents" program. |
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| ANAC Communications Project Seeks Visibility for Member Programs and Benchmarks |
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In transitioning beyond ANAC first decade activities and events the ANAC communications initiative is focusing on identifying and promoting member hallmark programs and best practices and analyzing benchmark data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, ANAC Data Exchange, and other sources. The purpose is to understand more fully and give visibility to the distinctive characteristics of ANAC member institutions and their contributions to higher education and society. Such an undertaking is designed to address imperatives facing higher education in an increasingly global environment and to respond flexibly to educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population. The project will seek both to provide results of this analysis to the higher education press and media and to expand ANAC’s national higher education association relationships and conference participation.
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President Stuart Dorsey (l) and spouse Michelle Dorsey (red dress)
welcome ANAC CFOs to the University of Redlands. |
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