ANAC Member Campus News:

• Tom Wolfe to Keynote September 11 Dedication of Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University
• Drake University Receives Nearly $10 Million in Two Gifts
• University of Redlands Receives Grants for Working Adult Teacher Preparation Program
• Belmont University Offers "Women in the Next Millennium" and "Health Care, Business Ethics, and Compliance"
• Personnel News

Tom Wolfe to Keynote September 11 Dedication of Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University


Novelist Tom Wolfe will be the keynote speaker at the dedication on September 11 of Quinnipiac University's new Arnold Bernhard Library. The $6,000,000 structure will also see dedication on September 21 of the Lender Family Special Collections Room devoted to the Great Hunger in Ireland, featuring Christine Kinealy, author of This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52. Kinealy's remarks will also open an academic conference at Quinnipiac on the Great Hunger, September 22-23.

Drake University Receives Nearly $10 Million in Two Gifts

It is not only alumni who are generous to ANAC member colleges and universities! This summer the estates of two non-alums left a total of $9.6 million to Drake University. The estate of Edward H. Dahly, Iowa farmer and business executive, gave $4.6 million to establish the Edward H. Dahly Scholarship Fund. Dahly had been a close friend of an assistant to Daniel Morehouse, Drake's president from 1922-41. The second gift was for $5 million from the estate of Mary Collier Baker, another Iowa native, whose son James received a master's degree at Drake in 1970. This gift will be designated for scholarships and to endow a faculty chair in the School of Education. The generosity of these two donors brings gifts and pledges of Campaign Drake to more than $160 million of the fund drive's $190 million goal.

University of Redlands Receives Grants for Working Adult Teacher Preparation Program

The University of Redlands has received a second grant of $320,000 from the James Irvine Foundation of San Francisco to expand a program Irvine Foundation funding enabled Redlands to establish last year which allows working adults to earn a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and a basic teaching credential. With additional support of $50,000 from Bank of America and a $200,000 endowment fund grant from the Hutto Patterson Charitable Foundation of Los Angeles to provide teacher education scholarships, the University plans to address a regional and national teacher shortage that is projected to reach crisis proportions over the next few years when more than a third of the present teacher force retires.

Belmont University Offers "Women in the Next Millennium" and "Health Care, Business Ethics, and Compliance"

Belmont University's Center for Entrepreneurship and Center for Business and Professional Ethics are reflective of the community outreach in liberal arts and professional studies that characterizes fulfillment of the regional mission of ANAC members. Belmont's Center for Entrepreneurship will offer, with sponsoring support from Ernst & Young and Nortel Networks, an October 21 symposium, "Women in the Next Millennium: Designing New Pathways," featuring Gail Blanke, author of Taking Control of Your Life: The Secrets of Successful Enterprising Women and In My Wildest Dreams. The Center for Business and Professional Ethics recently offered the symposium, "Health Care, Business Ethics, and Compliance."

Personnel News

Patricia Lancaster, Dean of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College, has been named interim provost while a national search seeks a successor for Charles Edmondson, who has left Rollins to assume the presidency of Alfred University in upstate New York. Also in New York, President Peggy R. Williams of Ithaca College has been elected to the board of directors of the American Council on Education. President Williams has chaired ACE's Commission on Women in Higher Education and ACE established in her name the Margaret R. Williams Emerging Professional Award to recognize the accomplishments of promising young women professionals in higher education. Another ANAC member president, Jeanne K. Neff of The Sage Colleges, recently joined the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Ron Troyer, provost of Drake University, introduces a Summer Institute panel (l to r) George Sims, Belmont University provost; Mary Burgan, AAUP; Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas-Austin; and Bob Diamond, President, National Academy for Academic Leadership.