Joyce Jarrett, Hampton University, visits with Jerry Greiner, Hamline University.

Jim Pence, Pacific Lutheran, discusses ANAC's international initiative at Reps meeting, as Sharon Robinson, Sage, and Bill Keep, Quinnipiac, listen.

Marcia McDonald and Dan McAlexander of Belmont University.

• Senior Faculty Online Survey to be Administered in September
  
• ANAC Data Exchange Open for Year V Member Data Entry
  
• Institutional Representatives Move Forward with International Planning at June 18 Meeting
  
• Drake-Drury Distance Learning Pilot Highlights ANAC Online Learning Initiative

Senior Faculty Online Survey to be Administered in September

Design of the instrument is well underway and plans are in place to administer online the ANAC late career and retirement transitions survey in late September through October. The TIAA-CREF Institute provided a grant to develop, administer, and analyze the survey which will be completed in cooperation with the University of North Carolina and University of Minnesota. The survey will be administered over the ANAC website (http://www.anac.org). Survey results will be available early in 2004.

ANAC Data Exchange Open for Year V Member Data Entry

Member institutional research offices have been invited to submit 2002-03 institutional data to the ANAC Data Exchange with a target date of August 11 to complete the process. Much of the data has been taken off IPEDS and pre-loaded for member convenience. A good deal of the data the Exchange collects, however, is geared towards outcomes and is not gathered by IPEDS. During August the data will be checked for accuracy and completeness with the goal of opening the Exchange for member benchmarking and institutional comparisons by October 1. A hard copy report will be prepared during the fall analyzing longitudinal trends that may be revealed through the five years of member data the Exchange has assembled.

Institutional Representatives Move forward with International Planning at June 18 Meeting

Holding their summer meeting at Hampton on June 18, just prior to the Summer Institute, ANAC institutional representatives elected officers, approved ANAC's 2003-04 budget, welcomed Rollins College to rejoin ANAC, and decided to survey members regarding international and study abroad programs, priorities, and interests, as a prelude to an ANAC international program development conference, tentatively to be held Wednesday, January 21, 2004, in Washington, DC, just prior to the AACU annual meeting, January 22-24. Provosts Jim Pence, Pacific Lutheran University, Peter Bardaglio, Ithaca College, and Dan McAlexander, Belmont University, were named to head up the international program development effort. Ron Troyer, Drake University, was elected to serve as Reps chair for 2003-04; Jerry Greiner, Hamline University, was elected vice-chair and chair-elect; and Jerry Frances, Elon University, was elected to serve as a member of the Reps executive committee.

Drake-Drury Distance Learning Pilot Highlights ANAC Online Learning Initiative

Through the efforts of the ANAC Online Learning Committee and the interests of a number of faculty and staff at Drake and Drury universities, the two ANAC members are collaborating on distance learning offerings at the two institutions this summer. Ten courses at each institution are part of the pilot, providing students cross-registration access to the 20 pilot courses. Seventy students are taking advantage of the program. Among the goals of the pilot are to increase options for students at each university and to create a greater diversity of students in each class.

Students will be surveyed at the end of the summer to evaluate their experiences in the program. Drury courses in the pilot are Abnormal Psychology, Creative Writing, Introduction to Criminology, Introduction to Law for Legal Assistant, Gangs, Lewis and Clark, Media Writing, Minority Groups, Religions of the World: Far East and virology. Drake is offering Accounting I and II; Calculus I; Expedition of Lewis and Clark; Management Operations; Modern Latin America; Peace-building and Post-Conflict. Justice; Revisiting the Vietnam War; The Classics: Then and Now; and Women and Politics. Drury's online courses are posted at www.drury.edu/cgcs/online/. Drake's online courses are posted at www.multimedia1.drake.edu/summer/.

Wanda Everage and Linda Williams, Drake University,
enjoy dinner on the Spirit of Norfolk.