A teacher and student confer at Ithaca Collage.

Warren Funk, Susquehanna University.

• Ithaca College in Third Year of Campus Faculty Workload Project
  
• A Sturdy American Hybrid to be Published in January
  
• ANAC CFO Conference; Sessions at NASPA and AACU Conferences
  
• ANAC Data Exchange and Updated Mailing List Available in January

Ithaca College in Third Year of Campus Faculty Work Project

Ithaca College took to heart the ANAC faculty work project analysis and recommendations that resulted in the book, A New Academic Compact: Revisioning the Relationship between Faculty and Their Institutions (Anker Press, 2002). At President Peggy Williams' invitation, seven academic departments agreed two years ago to participate in a workload differentiation project to address longstanding faculty workload issues. The ground rules were simple: the project could neither increase a participating department's faculty size or budget, nor result in a decline in the quality of student learning. Now, more than two year's later several departments have instituted new workload arrangements that have reduced formal workload, increased the quality of faculty-student interaction, caused needed revisions in curricula, provided flexibility to better align faculty work assignments with faculty talents and interests, and provided options that have expanded faculty scholarly and professional development opportunities. The Ithaca workload project was presented as a case study at the November ANAC/AACU conference at Butler University. For further information, contact Garry Brodhead, Ithaca College associate provost (607-274-3837, or gbrodhea@ithaca.edu).

A Sturdy American Hybrid to be published by Mercer University Press in January

Long in the making, the collected profiles of ANAC member colleges and universities will be published by Mercer University Press to appear in January. Launched by Mercer President R. Kirby Godsey and his ANAC Presidents Council colleagues several years ago, the project has involved visits to nearly every member campus on the part of Cecil Staton, Jr., associate provost and editor of the Mercer Press. Each member institutional profile, highlighting distinctive features such as strong programs and good practices, constitutes a chapter of the book. Staton has contributed an overview chapter of differentiating characteristics he finds among ANAC members as a group. ANAC executive director Jerry Berberet provides a foreword placing the evolution of the ANAC institutional model in a historical framework and suggesting that ANAC members possess a responsiveness, adaptability, and entrepreneurism that society needs from higher education in our complex and rapidly changing information society.

A Sturdy American Hybrid: the Associated New American Colleges may be purchased from Mercer University Press for $20.00. Call 1-800-637-2378, or go online at www.mupress.org.

ANAC CFO Conference; Sessions at NASPA and AACU Conferences

ANAC continues its impressive record of conference sponsorship and participation with national higher education associations to provide affinity group problem and good practice sharing and professional development experiences focused on the needs of private comprehensive colleges and universities. For the December 5-7, "Spirituality on Campus: Reflection and Practice," conference (co-sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the California Institute of Integral Studies) in New Orleans, ANAC organized a panel on spirituality, vocation, and career development that included a case study from Valparaiso University. In responding to growing interest on campus in spirituality themes, ANAC addressed an issue of particular interest at church-related colleges and universities.

ANAC has organized the following two sessions for the January 23-25, 2003, AACU annual conference, "The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21st Century," in Seattle:

I. "Integrative Learning: A Liberal Education Strategy for the 21st Century"
This session presents case studies of ways that ANAC member institutions have used integrative learning as both liberal education and institutional development strategy—linking liberal and professional studies; faculty, curricula, and students; and theory and practice in ways that respond powerfully to institutional mission and community needs.

Panelists:

• Ithaca College: Tanya R. Saunders, assistant provost and dean of interdisciplinary studies, and Gina Marchetti, associate professor of cinema and photography
• University of Redlands: Nancy Carrick, dean, college of arts and sciences
• Belmont University: Dan McAlexander, provost, and Donald Cusic, professor of music business
• Moderator: Jerry Greiner, provost, Hamline University

II. "How to Extend the Campus? Liberal Learning Responses to Challenges of Globalization"
This session presents case studies of ANAC member institutions that have extended traditional study abroad programs to integrate systematically campus-based and internationally-based learning and faculty development in order to enrich existing programs, develop new programs, and to make internationalization pervasive in liberal learning.

Panelists:

• Pacific Lutheran University: Gregory Youtz, director of Chinese Studies program and professor of music
  
• North Central College: Francine Navakas, associate academic dean and Bramsen Professor of Humanities
  
• Drury University: Stephen Good, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty
  
• Moderator: Warren Funk, vice president for academic affairs, Susquehanna University
  

On February 26-27, ANAC chief finance officers will gather at Pacific Lutheran University for the 4th annual ANAC CFO benchmarking conference. The program will include presentations by officers from the TIAA-CREF Institute on faculty retirement issues; Prager, McCarthy, and Sealey on financial ratios and their implications from a six-year of analysis of ANAC member audited financial statements; Frank Russell Co. on alternate endowment investments; and the US Green Building Council LEED certification process. In addition Larry Goldstein, former NACUBO executive vice president will participate and significant time will be spent in group problem-solving and sharing good practices in "CFO Roundtable" sessions.

ANAC Data Exchange and updated Mailing Lists Available in January

Two of ANAC's labor intensive projects are the annual update and reporting of the ANAC Data Exchange and update and dissemination of the ANAC mailing list. Both projects are near completion, delayed a few weeks due to ANAC's busier than usual schedule of fall meetings and conferences. But, with the help of Patrick Alles at Creative Analytics and the clerical assistance of Kathy Robinson, these projects will be completed before the January meetings of the ANAC institutional representatives and the Presidents Council.