Quinnipiac intern Eric Jackson with Today anchor Katie Kouric.

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Smith Jackson described academic-student affairs collaboration at Elon University during the Summer Institute.

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Jean Beckman is dean or Arts & Sciences at University of Evansville.

• Students Demonstrate Wide-Ranging Achievements
  
• Faculty Garner Fellowships, Endowed Chairs, "Educator of the Year" Recognition
  
• Hamline President Announces Retirement Date; New Academic Administrative Appointments

Students Demonstrate Wide-Ranging Achievements

A sample of what ANAC member students have accomplished recently:

• Eric Jackson of Quinnipiac University is experiencing the internship of his dreams at NBC's Today. So far he has been mentored by Matt Lauer, worked with several producers, and worked on a story previewing the release of the new Harry Potter book.
• The Drury University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won its second national championship in three years in May and now will move on to the SIFE World Cup competition to be held in Maintz, Germany in October. SIFE promotes entrepreneurship and public service.
  
• Brandon Lussier became the nineteenth Hamline University student since 1995 to win a Fulbright Fellowship for foreign study. He will study at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia during 2003-04, focusing on Estonian language and literature.
  
• Mark Adams, a men's basketball player at Belmont University, has been selected the 2002-03 Atlantic Sun conference Male Student Athlete of the Year. His 67 percent mark also led the nation in field goal percentage for the second straight year. Mark, a junior, carries a 3.94 gpa in computer science and earned Verizon Academic All-American honors.
  
• Nutrition major Eva-Maria Schwebel was named valedictorian of the Russell Sage College class of 2003, graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 gpa, captained the tennis team as #1 singles and doubles player, and was commissioned into the US Air force as a 2nd lieutenant in the Biomedical Science Corp., having won a competitive year-long paid dietetic internship at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas.
  
• Ten students from Education University in Heidelberg, Germany, recently spent ten days at Valparaiso University to learn about education in the United States and to visit a variety of schools in Indiana and Illinois. Moving in the other direction, students and faculty in the Mercer University executive MBA program will travel to Paris and Geneva for a nine-day visit to meet with executives of various international corporate offices.
  
• WASU-FM 88.9, The Pulse, at Susquehanna University, received an honorable mention award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster's Association (PAPBA) in the small market category for its play-by-play coverage of Crusader football last fall. WQSU, staffed by student volunteers, was the only college station to receive a PAPBA award this year.
  

Shaun Lewis and Ebone Joseph, senior sociology majors at Hampton University, present the results of their undergraduate research on impacts of violence on minority youth at the Summer Institute, under the direction of professor Zina McGee.

Faculty Garner Fellowships, Endowed Chairs, "Educator of the Year" Recognition

Faculty member achievements cover a broad span of activities:

• Three Mercer University professors (H. Anne Hathaway, Julie Hixon-Wallace, and Gloria Reece) are among 12 Georgia educators selected to participate in the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program for the 2003-04 academic year. Fellows participate in six three-day symposia to develop new teaching skills, especially regarding emerging technologies, and undertake instructional projects during on the Mercer campus.
  
• Walt Wangern, Jr., Valparaiso University's Emil and Elfrieda Jochum Professor of the University, has published two new books, The Earthly Pilgrimage and Saint Julian. Wangern is the author of more than thirty books, ranging from fiction and children's literature to practical theology and devotionals.
  
• Betty Morgan, political scientist at Elon University, has been selected as one of 17 administrators and faculty to participate in the 2003 Academic Associates European Security Study Tour in Brussels, Belgium, July 6-13, sponsored by the US Office of Education.
• Ron Schie, chair of the Drury University communication department, was named "Educator of the Year" for the Ninth District of the American Advertising Federation (AAF). In addition to his teaching, Schie received the award for his service on the AAF's National Education Advisory Committee.
  
• A faculty member and a staff member from Elon University will travel to Namibia, July 5-17, to shoot video footage for two video documentaries on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Sociologist Tom Arcaro and senior video producer Jay McMerty are shooting the videos in connection with Elon's participation in Project Pericles, an initiative sponsored by the Eugene Lang Foundation to instill active social responsibility and civic concern in students.
  
• Two faculty members in the Valparaiso University College of Engineering have been named to endowed professorships beginning July 1. Douglas Tougaw will become the Leitha and Willard Richardson Professor of Engineering and Eric Johnson has been named the Paul and Cleo Brandt Professor of Engineering.
  

(l to r) Pam Kiser and Nancy Midgette of Elon pose with Warren Funk of Susquehanna during the Summer Institute.

Hamline President Announces Retirement Date; New Academic Administrative Appointments

• Larry G. Osnes, president of Hamline University, has announced that he will retire effective May 31, 2005, having served as Hamline's president for seventeen years and following Hamline's sesquicentennial in 2004. During his tenure Hamline has doubled its enrollment, raised $165 million in two capital campaigns, constructed eight new major facilities, and created two new graduate schools in education and public administration and management.
  
• Two new vice presidents have been named at The Sage Colleges, Jacqueline Venable for Development and Kathy Fitzgerald for Marketing and Enrollment Management. In a very busy season of administrative transitions, Sage has also appointed three new deans: James Dayton Gunn at the Sage College of Albany, Sharon Robinson at Russell Sage College, and John Tribble at Sage Graduate School.
  
• Robert Clark has been named dean of the School of Business Administration at University of Evansville and Carl R. Martray has been named dean of the Tift College of Education at Mercer University.