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| In The Headlines |
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| Lynette Robinson Named to Succeed Jerry Berberet on September 1 |
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| Lynette Robinson |
Lynette Robinson, Vice Chancellor and Deputy Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, will become ANAC executive director on September 1. With degrees from Earlham College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ph.D. from Boston College, and extensive experience in both the private and public sectors of higher education, she brings impressive credentials to ANAC. Her career includes stints at Earlham, ANAC-member Simmons College, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and, since 1995, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. In these roles, Lynette Robinson has been involved extensively with admissions and academic and student affairs and has worked closely with administrators, faculty, and professional staff in both sectors. In accepting the ANAC position, she declared, “I deeply believe that ANAC colleges are the institutions of the future.”
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| Jerry Berberet |
As the founding ANAC executive director, Jerry Berberet helped to establish the Associated New American Colleges in 1995, at a historic meeting attended by Ernest L. Boyer at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching headquarters, then in Princeton, New Jersey. He was also a member of the study group of deans, provosts, and presidents that met for several years in the early 1990’s to discuss the institutional identity, distinctive characteristics, and special purposes of small to mid-size comprehensive colleges and universities. This effort led directly to Boyer’s call in 1994 for a “New American College,” an institution that would renew the historic tradition of higher education service to society—a college that would be a “sturdy American hybrid” of the best features of the colonial liberal arts college and the land grant university system established by act of Congress during the Civil War. |
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| Summer Institute Largest in Decade-long History |
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| Institute keynote speaker President Bobby Fong, Butler University. |
More than 125 participants from twenty ANAC member institutions took part in the eleventh annual ANAC Summer Institute held June 14-15 at North Central College. The Institute theme, “Growing Together: Institutions and Their Next Generation of ANAC Member Faculty and Professional Staff,” gathered faculty, professional staff, and administrators around the common focus of serving the distinctive missions and character of the New American College institutional type—a mix of liberal arts, professional, and graduate programs and a diverse student body engaged in integrative learning emphasizing theory, practice, and community engagement.
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| Roberts Jones explains global educational challenges in addressing Institute. |
Institute speakers Bobby Fong (president, Butler University), Roberts Jones (president, Education and Workforce Policy LLC), and Mary Deane Sorcinelli (associate provost, University of Massachusetts), respectively, portrayed a vision for ANAC’s future, sketched the international competitive landscape facing American higher education, and traced the historical evolution and current focus of faculty/staff professional development programs. Institute discussions especially explored collaborative opportunities for academic and student affairs to enhance the learning outcomes of student academic and student life experiences.
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| Jerry Berberet thanks ANAC colleagues in farewell as executive director. |
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| Mary Deane Sorcinelli describes professional development touchstones in Institute remarks. |
The Institute also featured an evening with tributes, gifts, and farewells to Jerry Berberet who is retiring August 31, as ANAC’s founding executive director. Said Jerry, “The past fifteen years, beginning with the study group, has been a wonderful privilege and a great opportunity to make a difference. My ANAC experience has been an entirely positive one, working with close colleagues and good friends for what is truly a noble cause—the betterment of higher education.”
Many thanks to North Central College for superb hospitality and the lovely condition of a beautiful campus and to the Institute planning committee, especially chair Devorah Lieberman, provost at Wagner College; local coordinator Francine Navakas, associate academic dean at North Central; IRep chair Gerry Francis, provost at Elon University; and Cheryl Ney, ANAC provost-in-residence, for organizing a richly rewarding Institute.
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| TIAA-CREF Institute Awards Grant to ANAC |
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ANAC’s second grant from the TIAA-CREF Institute in three years will support design, administration, and analysis of an early career faculty survey to be administered this fall to faculty at the twenty-three ANAC members and the University of Minnesota system. The results will both provide a comprehensive analysis of early career faculty perceptions of their work, institutions, and personal and professional aspirations and an opportunity to compare ANAC member faculty perceptions with those of counterpart faculty in public institutions. The analysis will also make possible comparisons in perceptions according to such variables as gender, ethnicity, appointment type, and academic field.
The survey is intended to assist colleges and universities in recruiting and retaining the large generation of new faculty being hired to replace the retiring generation of faculty that entered the academy during the higher education growth era of the 1960’s and 1970’s. ANAC collaborated with the university systems of Minnesota and North Carolina in a 2003 survey of late career faculty with TIAA-CREF Institute support.
Although the generation of early career faculty has not been studied comprehensively, there is evidence that new faculty members have perceptions that differ in important ways from their senior counterparts and that there will be shortages of well-qualified candidates in some fields. Adding significance to the ANAC/UMN project are recent survey findings that the academic career has lost some of its historic appeal among current doctoral students, as well as the fact that graduate schools have done little to date to gear up their doctoral programs to meet the projected demand for new faculty.
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| Summer Institute team from The Sage Colleges |
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| ANAC CFO Project Featured at NACUBO Conference |
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| CFO Carl Sgrecci presented Ithaca College case study. |
ANAC member chief finance officers at Ithaca College, Valparaiso University, and University of Redlands (Carl Sgrecci, Charley Gillispie, and Phil Doolittle, respectively) presented institutional case studies to illustrate findings of the ANAC net tuition revenue project at the July 9-12 NACUBO “Campus of the Future” Conference in Honolulu, held in collaboration with SCUP (Society of College and University Planners) and APPA (Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers). The net tuition revenue project has tracked net tuition revenue margins at sixteen ANAC member institutions over the past three years. Net tuition patterns are seen as a key indicator of institutional financial health, a fuller measure than tracking the financial aid discount rate alone.
Among findings of the project: financially healthy net tuition revenue margins appear at both institutions with high and modest tuition and discount levels and collaboration as an institutional team (e.g., marketing, finance, and academic) are key in reaching tuition pricing, financial aid, and student selectivity decisions that advance institutional financial health. Bill Hall, president of Applied Policy Research (APR), and his staff serve as consultants to the project and assisted in the presentation. APR is a Minneapolis firm with clients nationwide. Prager & Sealy, LLC handled data collection for the project.
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| CFOs Charley Gillispie (l), Valparaiso University, and Phil Doolittle, University of Redlands, presented institutional case studies at NACUBO conference. |
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