New graduates celebrate at the University of Hartford.

ANAC 2005 pre-Institute Planning Meeting to Frame ANAC's Future

June 13-16 at Ithaca College will be an intense and important time for the Associated New American Colleges. Preceding ANAC's annual Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute, June 14-16, representatives of ANAC's Presidents Council, Institutional Representatives, chief finance officers, faculty, and chief student affairs officers will meet June 13-14 to develop a framework plan as part of the ANAC 2005 strategic planning process. Institutional Representatives will hold their summer meeting on June 14, and participants at ANAC's Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute are invited to a June 14 pre-Institute NSF grant dissemination workshop sponsored by the University of Redlands for which travel support is available. See related announcements in this Bulletin. (Story continued below.)

The beautiful campus of Ithaca College, site of ANAC's Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute 2001, June 14-16, commands a spectacular view overlooking Lake Cayuga. Photo by Charles Harrington.

Articles In This Issue:

In the Headlines:

• From ANAC 2000 to ANAC 2005
• Spring 2001 Season of Commencements

ANAC Projects and Activities:

• ANAC Member Teams Asked to Register by May 1; Submit Team Planning Proposal by May 15 for Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
• Institutional Representatives Hold Retreat, March 16-17
• ANAC Media Project Media Sessions Involving Presidents in New York, April 11 and Washington, DC, April 24
• ANAC Data Exchange Prepares Year III Member Data Collection 7

ANAC Members in the News:

• Hampton University Exceeds $200 Million "Dreaming No Small Dreams" Capital Campaign Goal; Raises Bar to $250 Million
• Former President Bush Addresses April 10 Elon College Convocation to Cap $46.7 Million Elon Vison Campaign
• Drury University Concludes Successful $18.9 million Campaign for Science
• University of Hartford: Famed Emerson String Quartet Wins Two Grammys; Queen Noor to Visit April 27
• The Sage Colleges Receives Two $1 Million Capital Gifts
• Rollins College Endows Chair in International Business; Awarded $250,000 Surdna Grant for Student Community Volunteerism
• North Central College Student is Soros Winner
• Hamline University Student Involved in Alternative Spring Break Trip
• Pacific Lutheran University School of Business Celebrates 40th Anniversary
• Belmont Names Provost; Redlands Names Dean of Education

ANAC Commentary: "The Faculty We Seek"

• Institutional Representatives Propose Text for Discussion of Faculty Roles

ANAC Upcoming Events Calendar:

• ANAC Members Invited to Apply for Travel Support to Participate in University of Redlands NSF Grant Dissemination Workshop, June 14, Ithaca College
• ANAC Members Invited to Sponsor New Faculty Participants in SVHE New Teachers Workshop, July 22-26, 2001

From ANAC 2000 to ANAC 2005

ANAC 2005 has received considerable attention during 2000-01 in a new cycle of planning to replace the ANAC 2000 plan that initiated ANAC's basic activities and infrastructure after its founding in 1995. Under the ANAC 2000 plan, ANAC established the developmental strategy and distinctive programs that mark its organizational character today. These ANAC features include:

• A clear identity as a national higher education consortium of not more than twenty-five small to mid-size private comprehensive institutions (typical enrollment range 3,000-7000 students).
• ANAC member "affinity groups" such as presidents, provosts, CFOs, CSAO's, professional school deans, and directors of libraries, international education, public relations, and institutional research to share common concerns and best practices.
• Collaboration around well-attended national association conferences such as AACU, AAHE, AGB, NACUBO, AACSB, and CIC in order to offer "value adding" ANAC meetings and conferences cost-effectively. ¨ ANAC Data Exchange to gather key benchmarking and institutional outcomes data and ANAC web site (http://www.anac.org) linked to member homepages.
• Funded grant projects with The Pew Charitable Trusts and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation support to focus on faculty work and integration of liberal and professional studies.
• National media relations project to increase visibility of ANAC institutional model and individual ANAC member institutions.
• National higher education "laboratory" for incubation of innovations that contribute to higher education's service to a changing information age society.

ANAC 2005 is intended to move ANAC toward organizational maturity, an early proposed step being the 2002 ANAC Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute (tentatively, June 12-15, 2002). The Institute would enable member senior leadership teams to gather to develop institutional strategies for using ANAC to advance institutional priorities. Affinity group priorities and the activities and projects that will achieve them over the next several years will be refined and coordinated in a new plan for ANAC's overall development.

Spring 2001 Season of Commencements Begins

With the end of April approaching and May just around the corner, another season of spring commencements is in the offing. Perhaps none so differentiates a comprehensive institution from a liberal arts college as the commencement season at Mercer University where each school and college conducts its own graduation exercises between May 5-13-ten ceremonies in all! Mercer's cast of commencement speakers include Evett Simmons, President of the National Bar Association ('82 Mercer Law); Mark Taylor, Georgia Lieutenant Governor; James Dunn, recently retired Director of the national Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs; Paula Rosput, President of Atlanta Gas & Light; and U.S. Representative Saxby Chambliss.

At the other end of the spectrum, the University of Hartford, also with a number of professional colleges, will hold a single graduation ceremony on May 20. The three commencement speakers, each of whom will also receive an honorary degree, are Maria Irene Fornes, an internationally acclaimed playwright and defining voice in American avant garde theatre; Michael Price, executive director of the Goodspeed Opera House; and Jodi Rell, Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor.

Commencement photo by Larry Abrams captures the loveliness of spring at Ithaca Collage.