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| ANAC Members In The News |
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| Susquehanna and Wagner Awarded Significant Academic Grants |
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Tom Carroll is CFO at
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In collaboration with several nearby institutions, Susquehanna University has been awarded a $300,000 three-year grant from the Teagle Foundation to assess how active learning programs involving high levels of faculty-student interaction add value to student learning. Wagner College has received a $550,000 Learn and Serve America grant from the federal Corporation for National & Community Service, one of only nine grants awarded from 200 proposals submitted nationwide. The grant will fund Wagner’s Civic Innovations program partnering academic departments with local non-profit organizations to provide the non-profits with a flow of student volunteers while teaching students the value of interaction with the larger community.
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Drake Law and Pharmacy Schools
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It has been a good summer to date for Law and Pharmacy at Drake University. The Drake Law School has received $5.25 million in gifts that will endow two faculty chairs, establish a program in intellectual property law, and provide support for scholarships. The program will educate regulators, judges, and practicing attorneys in the protection of intellectual property rights, especially in biotechnology on a global basis. A $500,000 gift will enable Drake pharmacy students to learn how to make medications from scratch, thus customizing medications to meet patient needs when commercial drugs are not available.
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| Drake President David Maxwell, Dan Jacobi of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Law School Dean David Walker and Donna and Wayne Kern, LW'72, gather after the announcement of gifts totaling $5.25 million. |
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| Ithaca receives Major Gifts for Business School and Athletics and Events Center Construction |
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Ithaca College received word of a gift from Dorothy Park of $3 million at the May 12 groundbreaking for the new LEED certified business school, bringing Mrs. Park’s total contribution for construction of this building to $10 million since 2004. Also in May, the Atlantic Philanthropies contributed $9 million and the French American Charitable Trust $1 million for construction of the College’s new multipurpose indoor Athletics & Events Center. Groundbreaking for the Center is scheduled for 2007 with an anticipated opening in 2009.
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| Artist's rendering of the new Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center |
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| Belmont Opens Inman Center, Evansville Breaks Ground, Summer Construction Projects at Elon |
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The $22.5 million Gordon E. Inman Center has officially opened and will house the nursing, social work, occupational therapy and physical therapy programs of the new Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing at Belmont University. Inman, a Tennessee business leader, donated $10.5 million to the project and HCA’s TriStar Health System contributed another $7.5 million. Groundbreaking occurred at the University of Evansville on July 14 for the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration building, the first phase of a 35,000 square foot addition to the McCurdy Alumni Memorial Union. Elon University is working on several major construction projects this summer, including completion of the Koury Business Center, several residential halls to house some 650 students, and renovation of the Michael Weaver Building in Greensboro to house the new Elon College of Law which begins classes this fall.
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| Groundbreaking at the University of Evansville |
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| Summer Programs at Hamline, Pacific Lutheran and North Central Engage Low-Income and Urban Youth |
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| PLU hosts summer program. |
The Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching at Hamline University is offering the Urban Education Summer Scholars service learning and classroom experience program for pre-service teachers of color. During its nine-year existence the program has served 218 minority future teachers. Pacific Lutheran University hosted 190 low-income high school students from all over the state for the Washington Business Week summer program to learn about business and to simulate working in a company. The program included volunteer mentors from the business community.
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| Jan Fitzsimmons, North Central Inner-City Practicum director |
For the 17th consecutive year North Central College offered its Junior & Senior Scholars program, a month-long academic day camp to develop academic skills, love for learning, and familiarity with college in K-12 low-income inner-city students from Chicago and East Aurora. The 150 African American and Latino students study science, mathematics, humanities, social studies, music, and the arts with 30 college student interns from ten public and private Illinois colleges and universities who are considering teaching careers in high-need urban schools. The interns are mentored by the program’s founding director Janis Fitzsimmons and four early career inner-city teachers who participated in the program several years ago. Fitzsimmons is a North Central faculty member and director of the Center for Success in High-Need Schools at the Associated Colleges of Illinois. Historically, more than two-thirds of the interns go on to teach in high-need schools. |
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North Central interns, a diverse corps of future teachers
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| Faculty Research and Community Service at Valparaiso, Susquehanna, and Sage |
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Grant-funded faculty-student scientific research is a major summer activity at Valparaiso University. Projects include biology professor Robert Swanson’s research with students and colleagues at other institutions, supported by a $1.7 million NSF grant, on plant genetics with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of seeds per plant in order to increase crop yields. Visiting professor of physics and astronomy Todd Hillwig has been awarded a $101,000 NSF grant for the study of black holes. NSF is also funding engineering professor Carmine Polito’s study of soil behavior near the epicenter of Turkey’s 7.4 magnitude Kocaeli earthquake.
The Susquehanna University Science in Motion (SIM) program has been awarded a $55,000 grant (up from a $50,000 grant last summer) from the Chesapeake Bay Commission to engage secondary science students who reside along the branches of the Susquehanna River in water quality testing research. The findings contribute to the nutrient and sediment runoff monitoring program the Commission conducts within the Susquehanna River Basin.
Faculty members at The Sage Colleges have joined with local community groups on three projects, funded by the Louis and Hortense Rubin Community Fund, to develop multi-site library training to benefit senior citizens, creation and publication of an historical guide to local cemeteries, and a community education project to bring attention to environmental issues of the Tomhannock Reservoir. |
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Valparaiso president Alan Harre (r) visits with John Burney
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| Simmons Recognized for Online “Faculty Institute” Course; North Central Develops Data Mining and Security Program |
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| Kellie Hager, Simmons College, speaks at Summer Institute. |
WebCT has selected the online Simmons College “Faculty Institute” course from a field of 74 nominees as one of six exemplary course projects for displaying best practices in course design, meaningful technology use, and learner support. The course is designed to prepare college faculty to teach effectively online by putting faculty in the roles of both student and teacher in order to better understand how effective learning occurs. In the wake of rampant credit card fraud and celebrated security breaches that have put the privacy and personal information of millions of people at risk, North Central College will initiate this fall a three-course “data mining” certificate program on sophisticated data management and security.
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| Belmont Wins Fifth Straight Sun Conference All-Academic Trophy |
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In winning the Sun Conference All-Academic trophy for an unprecedented fifth straight year, two-thirds of the 270 student athletes at Belmont University earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher to receive academic all-conference honors for 2005-06. The Belmont men’s cross country team ranked first nationally for its academic record. 2005-06 was a banner year for Bruin athletic achievement, as well. Both the men and women’s basketball teams were selected for national tournaments, as was the men’s tennis team.
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| North Central Football Team Studies and Plays Football in Italy |
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Only three members of the current North Central College football team had ever traveled outside the continental United States, so why not combine a study and football abroad experience? This is exactly what North Central did in mid-June when 58 members of the Cardinal football team, North Central President Hal Wilde, and some forty alumni and family members spent eight days in Italy visiting Rome, Florence, and Venice. The Cardinals played an exhibition football game in Maggia against an Italian semi-professional team from Trieste, augmented by military personnel from the American base at Maggia. The Cardinals trounced the Italian team 54-0. Clearly, in light of the Italian team's recent World Cup triumph, soccer remains king of Italian football!
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| The North Central College football team in Italy, June 13-20 |
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| Hampton Alumna Named National Teacher of the Year |
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Kimberly Oliver, a 1998 graduate of Hampton University, was recognized by President Bush as National Teacher of the Year in a White House ceremony in April. The announcement cited her work as a kindergarten teacher in Silver Springs, Maryland, where she is noted for her community focus, teamwork with other teachers, and passion for student success. Oliver began a year as a full-time national and international spokesperson for education in June. The national teacher of the year is selected by a committee of representatives from 14 national education organizations.
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| Butler Projects Fall Enrollment Growth |
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Butler University reflects the enrollment growth most ANAC members have experienced in recent years. Butler expects nearly 1,000 freshmen this fall, its largest entering class in history, including student diversity more than 30 percent above recent years. Significantly, pre-professional program enrollment is expected to increase 35 percent, arts and sciences enrollment 25 percent, and a 14 percent increase in the number of students in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
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| Sustainability Initiative at Ithaca Attracts National Attention |
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| Brian McAree (l) and Roger Richardson lead Student Affairs at Ithaca College. |
The sustainability initiative at Ithaca College has attracted considerable national media attention. Championed by provost Peter Bardaglio, sustainability at Ithaca has brought homepage featured campus status of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (http:/www.aashe.org), an interview with Sky Radio that will be available to listeners this fall on all American Airlines and US Air flights, a mention in the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) March report on sustainability and higher education (http:/www.scup.org/csd/3/pdf/SCUP-CSD-Report.pdf), and June coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ithaca College is building a LEAD certifiable business school building and has signed the Talloires Declaration, an international statement of commitment to campus sustainability.
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| Elon to Lead National Carnegie Initiative; Names Teaching and Learning Scholars |
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Elon University as a leader of a national initiative on student participation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The initiative involves development of faculty-student partnerships to improve student learning through the study of best practices in learning and teaching. Earlier this year Elon created the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning to promote faculty-student partnerships around teaching and learning. The Center has named four faculty members as Center Scholars to lead Elons’s participation in the initiative during the coming year.
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| Mercer Establishes Public Radio Station on Campus |
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 Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) has announced the location of a radio studio on the Mercer University campus, a move that will provide local news coverage and programming in central Georgia and a connection to the network’s 100,000 watt transmitter. The new station will carry many popular NPR programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, and Metropolitan Opera.
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| The Mercer University campus |
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| Quinnipiac and North Central Student Radio Stations Win Awards |
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Students at WQUN, the Quinnipiac University community radio station at AM 1220, won three awards and an honorable mention at the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards in late April. The awards included best newscast, best feature, and best enterprise story.
The Illinois Broadcasting Association made several awards to students at WONC 89.1 FM at North Central College in June, including best single station self-promotional on-air spot.
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| Sandra Day O’Connor and Frank McCourt to Highlight 2006-07 Elon Speaker Series |
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Elon University announces that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer Prize-winner author Frank McCourt will headline an impressive roster of University speakers for the 2006-07 year. In addition to O’Connor and McCourt, NPR’s Bob Edwards, Harvard professor Bill George, NASA deputy director William Parsons, acclaimed author Tracy Kidder of “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” and South African ambassador to the US Barbara Maskela will appear on the Elon campus.
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| Valparaiso Students Compile Impressive Voluntary Service Record |
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Valparaiso University students gave of their time to serve others at a level equivalent to the output of 24 full-time workers and raised $107,502 for various philanthropies during the past year. During the 2005-06 academic year 39 student organizations and athletic teams performed 48,018 hours of community service for a variety of programs and causes in Northwest Indiana. In 2004-05 the comparable numbers were 45,530 hours and $112,442, according to statistics compiled by Valparaiso’s Office of Volunteer Programs.
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| Quinnipiac Offers Professional Athlete Career Transition Program |
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| Duncan Fletcher, director of PATI at Quinnipiac |
The Professional Athlete Transition Institute (PATI) at Quinnipiac University is the sole provider of career development services to the National Hockey League. Its programs are developed for active or retired elite athletes interested in preparing for life after their competitive careers. Most recently, nine former NHL players attended PATI’s Sports Broadcasting Workshop. Prior to the workshop which featured on air play-by-play calling, the participants took a three-week online course to prepare for “going live.”
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| Peter Brown, Mercer (l-r); Paul Loscheider, North Central; and Bruce Arick, Butler at Summer Institute. |
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