• 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

Belmont Athletes Earn Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Trophy

In its inaugural season in the Atlantic Sun Conference, Belmont University captured the academic champion trophy with 65% of Bruin athletes compiling grade point averages of 3.0 or better. In two sports, women's cross country and volleyball, 100% of the Belmont athletes earned academic honors and 88% of the men's and women's golf teams combined earned all-academic status. Four Bruin athletes earned Verizon Academic All-American honors.

Butler to Offer Dual Pharmacy/MBA Program

Butler University has developed a six-year dual degree MBA and doctor of pharmacy program that will be accredited by both ACPE (American Council of Pharmaceutical Education) and AACSB (International Association for Management Education). The program is intended to provide Pharm.D students with managerial and entrepreneurial capabilities for diverse careers in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. Students enroll at Butler in pre-pharmacy as freshmen and begin to take business courses as if they intended to minor in business. They are formally accepted into the College of Pharmacy during their third year and the MBA program during their fourth year. Dual degree programs are gaining popularity on ANAC member campuses and have great potential to grow because of the presence of numerous programs of both types, the enhanced learning outcomes that can be achieved, and the time and cost savings for students.

Drake Jazz Ensemble Cuts 3rd CD; Belmont Faculty Member Wins Songwriter Awards

Music is alive and well at ANAC member institutions. Jazz Ensemble One at Drake University recently celebrated the release of its third CD, "Here to Be Mainstay USA." Jazz One has had great success in recent years, including a fourteen-day tour last summer of France, England, and Holland. Drake president David Maxwell, son of legendary lead trumpet player Jimmy Maxwell, contributed to the CD's liner notes and compared Jazz One to his father's groups, "I continue to be astonished by the quality of Drake's jazz musicians." Jimmy Maxwell followed Harry James as lead trumpet in the Benny Goodman band and later was lead trumpet on the Tonight Show.

Music business professor James Isaac Elliott of Belmont University received songwriter and publisher honors at the ASCAP Christian music awards dinner. He wrote "The Change" with Steven Curtis Chapman, part of Chapman's million-selling "Speechless" album which spent seven weeks as #1 on the CCM Update radio airplay chart. Elliott also received dual awards from American Songwriter Magazine for the "The Change," as the #1 Christian song of the year and his Cabinetmaker Music was honored as the Christian Music Publisher of the Year.

Drury Establishes Center in Greece

Beginning this fall Drury students will be able to study in Volos, Greece, at a satellite extension of the Drury University main campus. In announcing creation of the center, President John Moore, Jr., said, "Our program for the Volos campus builds on Drury's commitment to educate students ready to meet the challenges of a global society." Director of the Volos center and professor of architecture Alkis Tsolakis added, "Volos is the perfect place for American students to experience global learning. The city itself is rich in history, tied to the heights of classical Greece, but a modern city with a tradition of music and theatre. It has also been an intersection for Greek, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and European people." In Volos students will undertake an interdisciplinary project involving history, culture, and an archeological dig.

Elon Admissions Video Wins Admissions Award

The Elon University admissions video, "Experience Elon," has received a bronze award in the 2001 admissions advertising awards competition. Admissions Advertising Awards is the largest such awards competition in the country. A national panel of admissions marketers and other advertising professionals and the editorial board of Admissions Marketing Report do the judging. "Experience Elon" was created in 2001 by Elon in partnership with Lothner Communications, a video production company based in Atlanta. Previously, the video had received a bronze medal in the international "2001 Circle of Excellence" competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Four Hamline Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships: Eighteen Since 1995

Eighteen Hamline University students have been awarded Fulbright fellowships since 1995, an extraordinary record. Three Hamline College of Liberal Arts students and one College of Law student added to the University's success in 2002. Two will study in Germany, one in Belgium, and one at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. In all twenty-three Hamline students submitted Fulbright proposals this past year with professor Russ Christensen in modern languages serving as their advisor.

Mercer President Honored by CASE

District III of the Council for the advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has recognized president R. Kirby Godsey of Mercer University as the recipient of its 2002 Chief Executive Leadership Award. In nominating president Godsey for the award,, former US Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, a 1948 graduate of the Mercer College of Law, wrote, "President Godsey is unmatched in his ability to articulate eloquently and passionately a fundamental vision for change and progress and then follow through on that vision. He is a leader without peer in higher education." Kirby Godsey has presided over Mercer's extraordinary growth and development, including the founding of five schools (medicine, business, engineering, education, and theology), mergers with two other institutions, and creation of the Mercer Engineering Research Center. In 2001, Mercer completed phase I and II of the Mercer 2000: Advancing the Vision Campaign which raised $208 million and the University has already launched phase III with a goal of $135 million.

Former Spyglass CEO to Direct North Central Entrepreneurship Program

Douglas P. Colbeth, co-founder and former CEO of Spyglass Inc., a leading provider of software technologies and professional consulting services, has joined North Central College as director of the College's Entrepreneurship Institute. Established in 2000 by North Central's Gary Ernest, Coleman Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, the Institute provides outreach services for small business start-ups and self-employment and engages students in applied and hands-on experiential learning. Spyglass' Mosaic technology is the foundation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. In 2000, Colbeth negotiated the merger of Spyglass with OpenTV, Inc., at a value of $2.4 billion.

"YAHOO" Vanity License Plate Celebrates "Och Tamale" at Redlands

Yahoo.Com executives wanted it, but the University of Redlands got it. "It" refers to a vanity license plate with the word "Yahoo" that John and Jeanette Martin have possessed since 1965, when John ordered it for their new 1965 Mustang. To them a reference to the joy of horseback riding, not the business of web surfing; to Redlands the seventh word in a nonsense school cheer originally written by a student in 1920 and learned by freshmen and cheered at athletic contests and other events ever since that begins, "Och tamale gazolly gazump deyump deyatty yahoo."

When contacted by the University for a photo of the plate, John said, "I'm 84 years old and won't be driving forever. I have often wondered who will have those plates when I no longer want them. I can see now they can find a home at Redlands." So the Yahoo plate has found a new home on the car of Char Burgess, Dean of Students and a 1969 Redlands alum. The latest acquisition continues a tradition that began when president James Appleton originated the license plate line-up when he acquired a vanity plate some years ago emblazoned with "Octamle."

Science in Motion Offers Science Teacher Workshops at Susquehanna

Science in Motion at Susquehanna University is a science partnership with area elementary and secondary schools for science teacher professional development. This summer Science in Motion offered two workshops, one the week of June 17-21, that emphasized laboratory techniques for secondary teachers in chemistry, and a second, June 26, for science teacher at all levels that focused on investigative and problem-solving approaches to teaching science. The workshops were offered at no cost to participants. The name Science in Motion comes from the fact that a van equipped with the latest science technology goes out to schools where workshops are offered, in part to provide students with opportunities to gain hands-on experience with analytical equipment most secondary schools do not possess.

Valparaiso Breaks Ground for $33 Million Library; Awarded Lilly Challenge Grant Worth Up to $3.5 Million

Valparaiso University broke ground April 27 to begin construction of a $33 million "Center for Library and Information Resources." Work on the new four-story, 115,000 square foot facility will begin this summer. The planning carefully considered the balance between traditional library services and electronic information retrieval in the building design. Space highlights include a high-tech tiered classroom, a computer lab, an automated book storage and retrieval system, a high-tech 30-seat conference room, a café, and a large community room for use for a variety of functions. Other spaces include a writing center, media library, electronic information services help desk, University archives and rare book room, reading rooms, group study areas, and a faculty study. All study seats will have direct access to the University's computer network ports and computers will be grouped in clusters to facilitate collaborative learning.

Under its "Special Initiative to Strengthen Philanthropy for Indiana Higher Education Institutions," the Lilly Endowment has awarded Valparaiso University a challenge grant to be matched with alumni, parent, student, faculty, and staff gifts between June 1,2002 and December 31, 2003. If fully matched, the grant would total $3.5 million. In announcing the grant, Sara B. Cobb, Lilly vice president for education expressed the Endowment's goal "to cause more of those closest to Indiana institutions to develop habits of supporting them. We also hope that in providing that support they will become more engaged in the affairs of their college or university." In accepting the challenge, VU president Alan F. Harre said, "Lilly Endowment Inc. continues to be a model for corporate support of higher education. It has supported our institution and others in many ways over the years. Now, through the challenge grants, the Endowment is generously supporting our programs while reminding those closest to the University that their support is critical if we are to continue to prepare the leaders of the future."