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Vice-President, Judith Pinch, welcomes guests at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's AACU reception,
January 21.

Six Weeks in Review -
An Active New Century for ANAC

ANAC's build-up to the new Millennium has been expressed in a whirl of activities over the first six weeks of the new century. January opened with the participation of an Ithaca College senior leadership team in the National Academy for Academic Leadership workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 4-9, which culminated in an ANAC-National Academy initiative to devise a faculty professional development program for institutional leadership roles. ANAC's International Education pre-AACU mini-conference on January 19, resulted in implementation of plans for an ANAC study abroad consortium and a Title VI grant proposal initiative to link foreign language study and professional program internships abroad. ANAC's institutional representatives met January 19-20, in association with the AACU Conference, and ANAC sponsored three AACU Conference sessions—on integrative learning programs, campus-community development partnerships, and the faculty-institutional partnership implications of the faculty work project. ("Six Weeks In Review" continues below.)

Articles In This Issue:

• AACU/ANAC Conference at PLU, April 6-8, to Focus on Best Practices
• Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute to Examine Results of Faculty Work Projects
• Presidents Council Proposes ANAC Senior Leadership Conference, June 2001
• Institutional Representatives Endorse ANAC "Virtual University" Initiative
• Chief Finance Officers Identify ANAC Financial Benchmarks
• ANAC Study Abroad and Title VI Initiatives Launched
• Faculty Work Project Defines Faculty - Institutional Compact
• James Duderstadt Envisions the Transformation to the 21^st Century University—from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• ANAC Member Campus News
• ANAC Calendar of Coming Events

ANAC's Presidents Council met on February 2, in a pre-NAICU Conference meeting to consider a national marketing and communications planning project and the implications for ANAC of an era of joint ventures in education and other sectors. The Faculty Work Project group met in New Orleans, February 2-3, prior to the AAHE Faculty Roles and Rewards Conference, and made a Conference power point presentation that integrated the tentative conclusions of the three working groups (differentiated faculty workload, institutional governance and service, and faculty development). ANAC representatives also met in New Orleans with Pat Hutchings of the Carnegie Academy on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to begin planning for an ANAC consortial project on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Then, ANAC's chief finance officers held a benchmarking conference at Rollins College, February 11-12, that both identified a dozen key financial benchmarks for ANAC member analysis and considered ways that business and academic affairs on member campuses could collaborate in optimizing the use of financial resources to benefit academic programs. Officers from Moody's, KPMG, and NACUBO participated in the conference and provided insights on financial issues facing ANAC members ranging from bond rating and debt policies to the financial ratios that are leading indicators of institutional financial health.

Coming Up Soon—ANAC chief student affairs officers will hold their first-ever meeting at Butler University on Sunday, March 19, just prior to the NASPA Conference in Indianapolis. Then, AACU and ANAC jointly sponsor a national conference, April 6-8, in Tacoma at Pacific Lutheran University on the theme, "Integrating Liberal and Professional Studies: From Aspiration to Improved Practice." The conference features two keynoters—higher education historian Sheldon Rothblatt from UC-Berkeley and President Faith Gabelnick of Pacific University—a panel of representatives from professional accreditation associations, and case studies from seven ANAC member institutions on their Hewlett projects to develop integrated liberal and professional studies curricula. A destination point for ANAC activity, the Conference location will also be the site for ANAC's next Faculty Work Project meeting, April 5-6, and the spring meeting of ANAC's campus Hewlett project coordinators who will gather April 6, before the Conference begins and again on April 9, just after it adjourns. Also, just prior to the Tacoma events, Drury University will hold its third annual Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference, March 31-April 1.

Looking Farther into the Future—ANAC announces that the 2000 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute will be held on the campus of Ithaca College, June 14-17. This year's Institute will double as a national dissemination conference for the findings and recommendations of ANAC's Faculty Work Project and will feature reports on a variety of faculty studies and projects nationally that have implications for all of higher education. The Institute theme, "Renewing the Faculty-Institutional Compact in Faculty Work," expresses the mutuality that is at the heart of the Faculty Work Project. ANAC member institutions are invited to send teams of faculty and administrators to the conference and to use the conference as a setting to develop plans to address institutional issues involving faculty work.