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• ANAC CASTL Project Expands Member Participation
• Year II of ANAC Data Exchange Underway
• ANAC Inaugurates Electronic Directory

ANAC CASTL Project Expands Member Participation


ANAC's Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) steering committee met at the Summer Institute on June 17, with John Sullivan of the nationally-recognized Elon College project and interested faculty from other ANAC members. Launched in February during a meeting with CASTL's Pat Hutchings at the AAHE Faculty Roles and Rewards Conference, ANAC's CASTL initiative seeks to develop linked campus projects that will sponsor an array of scholarly initiatives around teaching and learning that might be shared. The group noted that the rubric of the "scholarship of learning" provides an attractive way of engaging faculty and students in joint research activities that contribute powerfully to student learning, while facilitating faculty participation in CASTL. The steering committee will continue efforts to involve ANAC members in the project in the months ahead and is considering an ANAC CASTL meeting or conference for sometime in 2001.

Year II of ANAC Data Exchange Underway

ANAC member institutional researchers are submitting Year II data to the ANAC Data Exchange. Over the past several months the Year I format has been reviewed extensively and improvements have been made to clarify definitions and to gather data members currently submit to IPEDS and the College Board's Common Data Set (CDS). ANAC Data Exchange member IR contact persons attending the American Institutional Research Association (AIR) convention in Cincinnati met on May 23 to review the Year II format. Most the data that will not come off existing surveys is of an outcomes nature gathered to benchmark institutional performance or to provide data for the ANAC CFO financial benchmarking project. Year II findings and reporting techniques will be unveiled at the CFO benchmarking mini-conference in Chicago on July 22. Data questions about the ANAC Data Exchange should be directed to Jerry Berberet (850-927-3948, email anacjberb@aol.com). Technical questions should be directed to Patrick Alles at Creative Analytics (317-972-9468, email patrick@creativeanalytics.org). The ANAC Data Exchange is located at the ANAC web site and can be accessed at http://www.anac.org.

ANAC Inaugurates Electronic Directory

The ANAC mailing list will go online July 1, providing convenient mailing list access through a link on the ANAC homepage at http://www.anac.org. The ANAC Electronic Directory will contain full name, title, institution/organization, mail and email addresses, and phone and fax numbers for the approximately 700 persons at ANAC member institutions, other colleges and universities, foundations, and higher education associations and groups on ANAC's mailing list. Users will not only have access to the entire Directory, but will be able to sort the list by member presidents, institutional representatives, chief finance officers, chief student affairs officers, PR directors, head librarians, international program directors, institutional research directors, and campus coordinators of ANAC projects. Other groupings will be added in the near future. Names will be searchable by last name, title, and college/university or other organization. Users will also be able to send email from the Directory by clicking on the desired email address.

User feedback and suggestions are welcomed. Contact Jerry Berberet (anacjberb@aol.com) or Patrick Alles (especially regarding technical problems-- patrick@creativeanalytics.org).