Business Office
at Valparaiso University

The Board of Directors, comprising the presidents of each member institution and the chairs of the Councils of Institutional Representatives (IREPs), Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), and Senior Student Affairs Officers (SSAOs), approves and implements policy and programs related to the mission, governance, fiscal health, membership, reputation and planning of The New American Colleges and Universities; sets the annual budget; and selects and evaluates the President. The Board of Directors meets twice annually, usually in conjunction with the CIC Presidents' Institute and at the Summer Institute.

Chair: President Richard Guarasci,
Wagner College
(guarasci@wagner.edu)

Vice-Chair: President Mark Heckler,
Valparaiso University (mark.heckler@valpo.edu)

Immediate Past Chair: President Linda Hanson
Hamline University (lhanson10@gw.hamline.edu)

President Loren Anderson, Pacific Lutheran University
(pres@plu.edu)
Co-Chair, Membership Committee

President Robert Fisher, Belmont University (bob.fisher@belmont.edu)
Co-Chair, Membership Committee

President Andrew Westmoreland, Samford University
(tawestmo@samford.edu)
Member-at-Large

Vice President for Finance Doug Anderson, Hamline University
(danderson@hamline.edu)
CFO Chair

Each member institution designates its chief academic officer as its representative to the Council of Institutional Representatives (IREP), which meets twice a year. In addition, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Senior Student Affairs Affinity Group have seats on the Council. IREPS meet in January at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities and in June at the Summer Institute. Every three years, there is a joint meeting between the Chief Academic Officers and the Chief Finance and Administration Officers.

The IREP Council approves and implements policy related to the promotion of best practices in liberal education, including the purposeful and innovative integration of the liberal arts and sciences, professional studies, and civic engagement, both curricular and co-curricular, and plans and oversees related initiatives, e.g., best practice dissemination, professional development programs, off-campus study initiatives, and proposals for new collaboration.

Chair: Provost Harold Baillie, The University of Scranton
(baillieh1@scranton.edu)

Vice-Chair:

Immediate Past Chair: Vice-President for Academic Affairs Charles Taylor, Drury University (ctaylor@drury.edu)

Chair, Senior Student Affairs Officers: Vice President for Student Affairs Levester Johnson, Butler University(ljohnson@butler.edu)

The President is an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee.

The New American Colleges and Universities has one standing committee, the Membership Committee. The Membership Committee comprises two presidents appointed by the Chair of the Board of Directors (one of whom will serve as Chair of the Committee) and two provosts appointed by the Chair of the Council of Institutional Representatives.

Co-Chair: President Loren Anderson, Pacific Lutheran University
(pres@plu.edu)

Co-Chair: President Robert Fisher, Belmont University
(fisherr@mail.belmont.edu)

Provost Harold Baillie, The University of Scranton
(baillieh1@scranton.edu)

Vice-President for Academic Affairs Charles Taylor, Drury University (ctaylor@drury.edu)

The President is an ex-officio member of the Membership Committee.