Tijuana Julian of Drury University (l) discusses Drury's new arts administration major, as Heather Mayne, University of the Pacific, looks on.

Kit Spicer describes a growing interest in interdisciplinarity at Pacific Lutheran University.

• Panel Reports on ANAC Hewlett Project at June AAHE Assessment Conference
• ANAC Data Exchange Prepares to Report on Three Years of Data
• ANAC's Pew-supported Faculty Work Project - What's Next?

Panel Reports on ANAC Hewlett Project at June AAHE Assessment Conference

Four of ANAC's Hewlett project campus coordinators presented their institutional project results at the AAHE annual assessment conference held in Denver, June 23-26. Heather Mayne, associate provost at University of the Pacific, described how the UOP project not only resulted in a significant campus partnership in science education but led to a $550,000 grant for UOP science faculty to work with local school districts in science education. Alan Cohen, business professor at Ithaca College, explained how the pairing of business and communications resulted in a significant increase in at-risk minority student retention in the School of Business. Tijuana Julian, chair of music at Drury University, spoke of a pairing of business and the fine arts that resulted in a new interdisciplinary major in arts administration which incorporates business planning in the arts and a refined understanding of the audience ("customer") in business. Kit Spicer, dean of fine arts at Pacific Lutheran University, said that a multi-disciplinary pairing of the arts, computer science, English, geosciences, and communications is leading to the development of a program in visual literacy and a thirst for more interdisciplinary conversation campus-wide.

ANAC Data Exchange Prepares to Report on Three Years of Data

Institutional data entry is expected to be completed by late July for Year III of the ANAC Data Exchange. Attention will then turn to checking the accuracy of the data and facilitating member use of the Exchange for data comparisons and benchmarking in strategic planning and budgeting. The Exchange will be ready for data reporting and ANAC member uses by mid to late August. With three years of data now entered, trends and patterns will become observable in ways that will make the ANAC Data Exchange especially valuable for strategic purposes on the part of ANAC members.

ANAC's Pew-supported Faculty Work Project - What's Next?

The end of four-years of Pew Charitable Trusts' grant support for ANAC's faculty work project is by no means the end of the project. Among its results, the project has stimulated an ongoing dialogue among national higher education associations (including AACU, AGB, AAHE, CIC) that involves a day-long meeting every two or three months to analyze the continuing agenda in faculty work and issues that affect faculty effectiveness. ANAC is exploring promising new grant initiatives, one addressing the relationship between senior faculty and their institutions and another linking the development of integrative pedagogies with the integrative learning outcomes that were the focus of the Hewlett Project effort to connect liberal and professional learning outcomes in majors in both areas. The next phase of the faculty work project will assume concrete form in conversations involving faculty and administrators this summer and fall.

The Drury University team enjoyed the Summer Institute Lake Cayuga dinner cruise immensely. From left: Kelley Still, Steve Good, Charles Taylor, Peggy Catron-Ping, Michael Buono, and Barbara Wing.