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The Rt. Hon. The Lord Paul of Marylebone addresses the University of Hartford's graduating class.

Professor John Sullivan addresses Elon Graduates.

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Peter W. Bardaglio, Ithaca College.

Horace Fleming, Mercer University.

James L. Pence, Pacific Lutheran University.

ANAC Refines Priorities at Senior Leadership Conference, June 14-15

Meeting at North Central College, June 14-15, sixty ANAC member presidents and chief academic, finance, and student affairs officers from sixteen member colleges and universities identified a short list of priorities as the primary focus for ANAC's future development. In addition to plenary sessions, member leaders gathered in affinity groups to discuss common interests and to establish agendas for affinity group deliberations and future activities.

Jay Mathews, education writer at the Washington Post, challenged members to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement and to provide prospective students and the public full information about ways they engage students and the learning outcomes they achieve. The conference focused ANAC priorities on "ANAC Academy," international education, data exchange and benchmarking, and affinity group sharing of ideas and best practices.

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Articles In This Issue:

In the Headlines

• Commencement Round-up 2002
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation "Early College High School" Grants Program
• University of Dayton Appoints President; Senior Appointments at Ithaca, Mercer, and Pacific Lutheran
• AACU "Presidents Call" for Liberal Education for All Students
  

ANAC Projects and Activities

• ANAC Presidents Council and Institutional Representatives Hold Summer Meetings
  
• PLU Becomes Coordinating Campus for ANACSA
  
• ANAC Data Exchange Gathers Year IV Member Data
  
• Initial ANAC Media Project Completed
  

ANAC Members in the News

• Belmont Athletes Earn Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Trophy
  
• Butler to Offer Dual Pharmacy/MBA Program
  
• Drake Jazz Ensemble Cuts 3rd CD; Belmont Faculty Member Wins Songwriter Awards
  
• Drury Establishes Center in Greece
  
• Elon Admissions Video Wins Award
  
• Four Hamline Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships; Eighteen Since 1995
  
• Mercer President Honored by CASE
  
• Former Spyglass CEO to Direct North Central Entrepreneurship Program
  
• "YAHOO" Vanity License Plate Celebrates "Och Tamale" at Redlands
  
• Science in Motion Offers Science Teacher Workshops at Susquehanna
  
• Valparaiso Breaks Ground for $33 Million Library; Awarded Lilly Challenge Grant Worth Up to $3.5 Million
  

ANAC Commentary

• Ithaca President Defends Academic Freedom
• Reviews Praise A New Academic Compact

ANAC Upcoming Events

Who do you know? ANAC member presidents and chief academic, finance, and student affairs officers pose at North Central's Cardinal Stadium. That evening the Chicago Fire played a professional soccer game there in front of more than 15,000 fans.

Senior Leadership Conference(contd.)

As a culmination of the ANAC 2005 planning process, the Senior Leadership Conference settled on the following goals as ANAC's highest priorities:

• Seek to attract several new institutional members who share characteristics and commitments with the current membership.
  
• Establish "ANAC Academy" as a "virtual center" for faculty and staff development, anchored in the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute, and including a focus on the integration of liberal and professional studies, intersections between academic and student affairs around "holistic" student learning, and training for campus leadership roles.
  
• Develop ANACSA (ANAC Study Abroad) as a consortium center for international education, including study abroad and joint projects that might involve online courses in languages and international studies, workshops and conferences, and internships, service learning, and research.
  
• Continue to refine the ANAC Data Exchange in order to expand uses for data comparisons and benchmarking.
  
• Strengthen affinity groups, communication and coordination around ANAC priorities at the member campus level, and use of member expertise and commitment to explore collaboration in areas such as distance learning, information technology, and student engagement.

Conference participants (from left) Francine Navakas, North Central; Lynne Goodstein, Simmons; Peggy Williams, Ithaca; Jon Wergin, Virginia Commonwealth; Tom Estes, Mercer, Charley Gillispie, Valparaiso, and Donna Randall, Hartford.

Planning Nearly Complete for Conference at Butler University, November 7-9

As an ANAC Academy "kickoff event," ANAC is sponsoring a national conference with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) on the campus of ANAC-member Butler University, November 7-9, 2002. Also serving as ANAC's 2002 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute, the conference is designed for ANAC members and other colleges and universities to send institutional teams of faculty and administrators to address campus issues related to the theme, "Faculty Work and Student Learning: Meeting New Challenges of a World in Transition." The conference brochure providing details of the program schedule and registration information will be sent to AACU and ANAC member institutions this summer. Program information and how to register may also be found on line at the AACU (www.aacu.org) and ANAC (http://www.anac.org) web sites.

Building on themes of ANAC's book, A New Academic Compact, Revisioning the Relationship between Faculty and Their Institutions (Anker Press, 2002), the conference will use recent research findings on how students learn as a basis for designing models of teaching, learning, and faculty work to advance learning outcomes that best meet a complex, global information society's rising educational expectations. The conference will also address issues of assessment, accreditation, and faculty-institutional collaboration to consider strategies with potential to have major impacts on both curricula and student learning, while fostering faculty effectiveness and satisfaction. Institutional teams are encouraged to identify high priority campus curricular and teaching and learning issues to address through the conference in order to leverage the conference's impact for institutional benefit.

In addition to the conference program, participants will have a choice of four pre-conference workshops dealing with themes such as integration of liberal and professional studies, rethinking faculty work patterns and institutional relationships, connections between diversity and teaching and learning, and effective approaches to faculty-institutional collaboration. Finally, as an initial ANAC Academy event, the conference inaugurates what will be a rich program of faculty and staff professional development conferences, workshops, and seminars ranging from teaching and learning experiences to socialization of tenure track faculty to the ANAC institutional model and preparation for institutional leadership.

Chief academic officers Steve Good, Drury, Dev Pandian, North Central, and Phil Glotzbach, Redlands (from left), participate in planning for ANAC's conference at Butler University.

Commencement Round-up 2002

Among the happenings and highlights of ANAC member commencements throughout May and early June:

• University of Hartford - graduated 1,200 and were addressed by Swaj Paul (Lord Paul of Marylebone), a member of Great Britain's House of Lords, philanthropist, and founder of Britain's largest family-owned business.
• Quinnipiac University - awarded degrees to 1,020 undergraduates, Quinnipiac's largest graduating class in history, and featured New York City's former Mayor Ed Koch as commencement speaker.
  
• Elon University - 897 graduates were treated to commencement remarks from philosophy professor John Sullivan, who had crafted and revised his speech over a twenty-year period to be able to fill-in at the last moment should the invited speaker be unable to appear. Sullivan's opportunity came this year when NASA astronaut Mae Jamison was forced to cancel due to a family illness. Relating an Iraqi Jewish Passover tale, in which a slave wearing a hat of chicken feathers was selected by a magical bird to be the next king, he told the graduates, "Learn to see hats of chicken feathers as crowns in disguise. You are of royal lineage. You are meant to be co-responsible for all that concerns our common life."
• Pacific Lutheran University - 565 degrees awarded with graduates addressed by Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, 1959 PLU graduate and president of the China Medical Board of New York, which operates programs bringing Western medicine to China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Nepal.
  
• University of Redlands - Among the 425 arts and sciences and 550 School of Business and School of Education graduates, were two World War II era alumni unable to cross the commencement stage sixty years ago due to very different circumstances. Douglas Waide was called to military service and Neal Toshiro Goya was given the choice of leaving the state or being sent to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. Noting the symbolism of their presence, President James Appleton said, "These two alumni represent much of what we hold particularly dear in light of recent past events: defense of freedom and recognition that all men and women should share in that freedom regardless of race or religion."
  
• Susquehanna University - Chairman Julian Bond of the NAACP spoke to Susquehanna's 390 baccalaureate degree recipients.
  

Woodrow Wilson Foundation "Early College High School" Grants Program

ANAC members have been invited to submit proposals to establish what are being called "early college high schools," in a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $5.8 million grants program being administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Inspired by the Bard High School Early College, established in Brooklyn in Fall 2001 by Bard and Simon's Rock Colleges, the new schools will be located in urban areas on or off their sponsor campus. At least nine and possibly more will be funded with start-up grants expected to be in the $400,000 range. The Foundation is interested in supporting early college high schools at a variety of college and university institutional types.

Woodrow Wilson President Robert Weisbuch identifies four primary goals of the early college high schools:

• Prepare high school graduates to move more quickly and effectively to and through college.
  
• Raise the academic aspirations of high schools, especially in the liberal arts.
  
• Bring high school and college programs closer together, and
  
• Encourage close collaboration among high school and college faculty.
  

Interested ANAC member presidents should contact President Weisbuch to discuss their proposal interests (bobweis@woodrow.org, or 1-609-452-7007).

University of Dayton Appoints President; Senior Appointments at Ithaca, Mercer, and Pacific Lutheran

The University of Dayton has announced the appointment of Daniel J. Curran as its first lay president, effective July 1, to succeed Brother Raymond L. Fitz, S.M., who is rejoining the faculty after twenty-three years as president. President Curran, most recently executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs during his long career at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, is a distinguished sociologist with a prolific record of scholarly publication. Many of his books have been co-authored with his spouse, Claire M. Renzetti, also a professor of sociology at St. Joseph's. At St. Joseph's Daniel Curran had a significant hand in strengthening the academic reputation, including the award of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 2000, and developing international and service learning programs.

Ithaca College has appointed Peter W. Bardaglio, formerly interim vice president and academic dean at Goucher College, as its new provost. He is an American historian with degrees from Brown and Stanford. Mercer University announces that Horace Fleming, provost from 1992-97, will return to Mercer as executive vice president. He served as president of the University of Southern Mississippi from 1997-2001, and spent significant portions of his earlier career at Clemson University. Horace Fleming is an economist whose career has also included a stint as a senior staff member with the U.S. Senate in Washington, DC. Pacific Lutheran University has appointed James L. Pence, vice president for academic affairs at St. Olaf College, as provost, effective August 1, to replace Paul Menzel, well known to many in ANAC, who has decided to return to the PLU philosophy department. James Pence has been an English professor, a frequent author on higher education issues, and is the current chair of the American Conference of Academic Deans.

AACU "Presidents Call" for Liberal Education for All Students

The Association of American Colleges and Universities is spearheading an effort to enlist college and university presidents to publicly endorse liberal education as a visible step in increasing public understanding and to foster a societal commitment to provide a liberal education to every college student, regardless of field of study. Carol Geary Schneider, president of AACU, explains, "This campaign builds on a national resurgence of liberal education practices and programs on campuses across the country. It also responds to the business community's call for college graduates with the analytical and creative capacities provided by a liberal education."

To date more than two-thirds of ANAC member presidents have signed the "Presidents Call," a number that AACU would like to see become 100% ANAC member presidential support. During the coming year AACU will work with college and university presidents to educate the public about the goals of liberal education for the 21st century; will release a national report on liberal education in August as part of it Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College initiative; and sponsor a series of campus-community dialogues on liberal education during the 2002-03 academic year. For information on these activities or how to get involved, visit www.aacu-edu.org or call Debra Humphreys at AACU (202)387-3760.