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Summer
2003 Edition |
ANAC
Members In The News
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Institutional representatives moved at their June 18 meeting to welcome Rollins College to reactivate ANAC membership. The Reps action followed Rollins decision recently to seek to rejoin ANAC. Rollins historically has been a very active and collaborative member and the prospect of renewing relationships with good colleagues there has been very warmly received. |
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Evansville
and Hamline to Celebrate Sesquicentennials in 2004 1854 was a very good year! In that year
pioneering Methodist educators were active, indeed, founding Hamline
University as the first college in Minnesota and the University
of Evansville not far from the banks of the mighty Ohio River.
Looking forward to 2004, Hamline is stressing its tradition of innovation
and excellence in teaching and learning. Evansville, which kicks
of its observance with "The Big Event" gala on October
18, has adopted the sesquicentennial theme of "Civic Mission:
Sacred Trust" to express its heritage and commitments for the
future. North
Central to Create Learning Communities North Cental College is piloting
a learning communities program during 2003-04. Two residence hall
learning communities of twenty freshmen students each (ten men and
ten women) will be created, one around the theme "Chicago,"
building on the College's urban-suburban relationship with Chicago.
The second will be based on the theme "Education" and
will be designed to appeal to students interested in teaching careers.
Learning communities will have an interdisciplinary flavor with
both curricular and cocurricular activities relating class work,
service learning, field trips, research projects, and discussion
forums. Each group will have a faculty advisor, a student affairs
coordinator, and a librarian research coordinator. Quinnipiac
School of Business Establishes Equity Compensation Institute In light of significant innovations in
corporate compensation in recent years, the Quinnipiac University
School of Business has created the Equity Compensation Institute
to analyze new forms of management and employees compensation packages
and what they mean for American business. Founded by associate professors
Mathew L. O'Connor and Dale Jasinski, who will be co-directors,
the Institute will serve as a resource for companies and as a research
and survey source on the pros and cons of equity compensation. In
addition to research, it will sponsor seminars and conferences,
partially online. Valparaiso's
College of Engineering Incorporates Virtual Reality The College of Engineering at Valparaiso University is one of the nation's first to integrate virtual reality programs into the undergraduate curriculum. A virtual reality device, called VizBox, allows students to gain new perspectives by immersing themselves in a three dimensional image. VizBox creates this sensation through a system of digital projectors and screens viewed by students wearing special glasses that filter the images. A camera follows the movements of the student user and the images move in response to the moves of the user. Because the learning experience will be virtual, students will no longer have to imagine three-dimension reality from two-dimensional drawing. The VizBox has a variety of potential applications, such as nursing programs where knowledge of reality must also be very precise. Sage
Announces International Center for Nursing at University Heights The Sage Colleges have announced that they will partner with Northeast Health (two hospitals in Troy and Albany and services for the aging throughout the Capital Region) and Bellevue Woman's Hospital (specializes in newborn care and women's health services) to establish the International Center for Nursing at University Heights. Utilizing Sage's expertise in nursing education and the partnering hospitals for field work, internships, and residencies, the Center's mission is to address the nationwide shortage of nurses and to stay in the forefront of the rapidly changing world of health care.
Hamline
Establishes Center in Minneapolis; Launches International High School Two ambitious undertakings at Hamline University are the Hamline International School at Hamline University which will open in September with 20-30 grade 9-12 students and a goal to expand gradually to approximately 150 students. Partnering with Nacel Open Door, a nonprofit organization dedicated to international understanding and language education, Hamline International School will attract students from all over the world and some local students. Applications have already been received from students from Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Russia, Columbia, and Brazil. Hamline faculty will do some of the teaching in the school. The new Hamline University Minneapolis Center will offer master's
degree programs in management, education, and liberal studies in
the evening and will offer some classes on Saturdays. To be located
in the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church complex, Hamline
expects the new center to have the added benefit of rekindling historic
ties between the two institutions. Belmont
Wins Atlantic Sun Academic Champion Trophy For Second Year For the second straight year, Belmont University has claimed the Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Champion Trophy. An impressive 69 percent of the Bruin's 203 student athletics earned a 3.0 or better gpa, up from 65 percent a year ago. The women's cross country and men's tennis and baseball teams finished first in their respective sports. In addition to six Belmont student athletics earning Verizon Academic All-District honors, Adam Mark (basketball) and Marcos Cabrera(soccer) earned Academic All-American status. To top off this recognition, Belmont President Robert Fisher was named president of the Atlantic Sun Conference and Chair of the Presidents Council for the 2003-04 year. Valparaiso
LEAPS Program Serves Chicago Parochial Schools Fifteen career-changers to teaching careers have enrolled in the summer portion of Valparaiso University Lutheran Educational Alliance with Parochial Schools (LEAPS). The two-year program places the teacher candidates as paid interns in elementary and secondary parochial schools in Chicago and Northwest Indiana needing teachers, where they are closely supervised and mentored. They receive free tuition and must possess a bachelor's degree to enter the program. LEAPS is in its third year and recently graduated its first class of ten students. Evansville
Options Program Enables High School Girls to Explore Engineering
and Computer Science Careers Eighteen young women from area high schools
are learning about careers in engineering and computer science during
the University of Evansville's annual hands-on learning camp
Options, sponsored by the Vectron Corporation. Initiated in 1992,
Options week enrolls 10-12 graders in mini-courses and engineering
design projects and this summer includes a special trip to the Space
and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, Alabama, led by College of Engineering
and Computer Science dean Phil Gerhart. Tornado
Damages Drury Center at Stockton Remember all that news in May about tornados touching down with devastating results in southwestern Missouri? On May 4, the Stockton High School was struck forcing Drury University to move classes at its Stockton Center to a new location. Those were a scary few weeks around Springfield, where the Drury main campus is located.
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