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| ANAC Projects & Activities |
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ANAC Presidents Council chair and University of Evansville
President Steve Jennings (r) with Evansville colleagues. |
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| ANAC Data Exchange Begins Ninth Year |
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ANAC member institutional researchers will enter 2005-06 institutional data in the ANAC Data Exchange during August. Now in its ninth year the Exchange is a comprehensive data bank of more than 250 member statistical variables from IPEDS, CDS, and internally-generated sources, e.g., enrollment, retention, diversity, student outcomes, salaries, class sizes, student/faculty ratios, library holdings, largest academic programs, technology, and finances. The compiled data are available online for member comparative analysis and benchmarking.
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| ANACSA Focuses on Marketing and International Faculty Development |
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Entering its third year in Fall 2006, ANAC Study Abroad (ANACSA) will focus on strengthening internal marketing to members in order to attract additional students and creating international professional development opportunities for faculty. Both are key to assisting ANAC members to achieve campus internationalization goals in a heightened global era and to providing ANACSA with the increased visibility on member campuses that is necessary to communicate its exciting array of study abroad programs to students. ANACSA featured programs are designed to mirror the combination of theory and applications that characterize outstanding ANAC member campus programs through language and cultural immersion, internships, field studies, community-based research, service learning, and guided travel.
ANACSA operates as a cost only student exchange program among ANAC members featuring specially-designed member study abroad programs on five continents. The ANACSA headquarters are at Hamline University and the program coordinator is Brandon Lussier (blussier01@hamline.edu, 651-523-2649). To learn more, visit the ANACSA website www.hamline.edu/anacsa.
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| ANAC Presidents and Institutional Representatives Hold Summer Meetings |
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The ANAC Presidents Council and the Institutional Representatives held their summer meetings on June 14, at North Central College, just prior to the opening of the Summer Institute. In addition to interviews of finalists for the position of ANAC executive director, the presidents and IReps addressed financial, membership, program, and planning issues in transitioning to a new executive director. Jerry Berberet agreed to provide whatever assistance is needed to help assure that the transition goes smoothly.
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IRep chair,
Gerry Francis, Elon University,
and Linda McMillin, Susquehanna University. |
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| CFO’s Meet at NACUBO |
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ANAC member CFO’s held a day-long meeting on July 8, just prior to the NACUBO “Campus of the Future” conference in Honolulu, July 9-12. The afternoon portion of the meeting included a roundtable discussion involving member physical plant directors. In addition to net tuition revenue and physical plant management/financial resources project updates with Bill Hall (president of APR) and David Kadamus (president of Sightlines LLC), respectively, CFO’s initiated planning for the annual ANAC CFO benchmarking conference to be held March 22-24, 2007, at Westminster College.
NACUBO vice president Matt Hamill provided an update on national developments that affect CFO’s and asked for input on a new NACUBO data benchmarking project. Doug Anderson (Hamline), Jeff Wolf (Evansville), and Gerald Whittington (Elon) agreed to act as a CFO steering committee during the coming year to work with Steve Morgan (Westminster) in planning the Westminster conference and to assist Lynette Robinson in becoming engaged with projects and activities of the CFO group.
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| ANAC CFO’s meet in Honolulu. |
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| Westminster Environmental Studies Program to Pilot ANAC Domestic Student Exchange |
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Westminster College has developed a unique “Winter at Westminster” environmental studies program as a pilot inauguration of ANAC member domestic student exchange experiences. Winter at Westminster combines opportunities for students to take environmental studies courses, participate in outdoor recreation industry internships, conduct alpine environmental research, take elective courses at Westminster, and experience the world class winter recreation that abounds within minutes of Salt Lake City. ANAC member students will be able to participate in the program during winter semester 2007. Further information will be available in September through ANAC member academic affairs and study abroad offices.
ANAC members have felt for some time that unique and exciting program opportunities are possible related to their institutional strengths and distinctive locations in all parts of the United States. Winter at Westminster inaugurates an effort to develop such possibilities which have the potential of making available to all member students the array of unique and distinctive features that individual ANAC members offer.
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Westminster where students are within a half hour of some of the best
powder skiing and snowboarding in the world. |
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| ANAC to Cosponsor February 2007 Conference on Integrative Learning |
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ANAC has joined with AACU, CIC, NASPA, the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, and the California Institute for Integral Studies in cosponsoring a conference funded through the Fetzer Institute to explore the broader dimensions of mind, body, and spirit in integrative learning. “Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education,” will be held in San Francisco, February 22-25. ANAC will collaborate with NASPA and the League to offer a pre-conference workshop on February 22, on team-building strategies for integrative learning and community engagement. The conference will address curriculum and values; intellectual, aesthetic and moral intelligences; technical competency and compassionate action; critical reasoning and contemplative inquiry; and vocation and life purpose. Sessions will discuss major trends in research and offer theoretical, pedagogical and relational teaching perspectives from around the world.
Keynote speakers will include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker; educational activist and author Parker Palmer; Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela of the University of Cape Town and author of A Human Being Died that Night; Robert Keagan, developmental psychologist and author of The Evolving Self; Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, president of Kalamazoo College; and Diana Chapman Walsh, president of Wellesley College.
College and university faculty, administrators, student life professionals, and chaplains are encouraged to participate. Registration begins in September. More information is available at www.heartofeducation.org.
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| Summer Institute 2007 at Elon University |
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| Fran Navakas coordinated local arrangements for the 2006 Summer Institute at North Central. |
Elon University will be the site of the 2007 ANAC Summer Institute, June 13-15. The Institute focus is being planned around teaching and learning themes with possible sessions on such topics as signature pedagogies, living and learning communities, global citizenship, teaching with technology, service learning, diversity issues in teaching and learning, teaching and learning centers, integration of liberal and professional studies, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Devorah Lieberman, provost at Wagner College, will serve as chair of the Institute planning committee (dlieberm@wagner.edu, 718-390-3211).
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| Elon campus |
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