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Acting president JoAnn Haysbert welcomed Summer Institute participants to Hampton University.

President Richard Guarasci, Wagner College, keynoted Summer Institute.

ANAC Expands Member Benefits

New initiatives in the works since the ANAC 2004 priorities planning exercise earlier this year are coming to fruition. These undertakings, a central focus of ANAC summer activity, are expanding opportunities, services, and benefits for ANAC members in several areas:

• ANAC Study Abroad (ANACSA) is being launched with a part-time coordinator located at Hamline University. The coordinator is being hired this summer in preparation for initiation of program offerings in Fall 2005.
• ANAC Academy will offer an “Emerging Leaders” workshop at Hamline, October 7-9, 2004. This workshop is especially designed for mid-career faculty and experienced professional staff new to positions of significant institutional leadership or interested in preparing for such positions.
• ANAC is embarking on a focused effort to increase knowledge and understanding within the higher education academy of small to mid-size colleges and universities that offer core liberal arts and professional studies curricula and seek integrative approaches to student learning and institutional management. This undertaking will be a centerpiece of the decade anniversary in 2005 of the 1995 founding of ANAC at the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching in Princeton, NJ.
• ANAC is exploring creation of an Associated New American Colleges consortium within the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). To be coordinated at Drake University, the ANAC NSSE will be a means to benchmark student learning across ANAC and to make student response data comparisons with other sectors of higher education.
• The ANAC Summer Institute will become the ANAC “annual meeting” in 2005 at Drury University, June 15-18. In addition to faculty and staff professional development sessions and institutional team planning activities, Summer Institute 2005 will feature ANAC affinity group meetings and Institute program strands. The theme of the Summer Institute 2005 will focus on an evolving faculty and staff professional identity to meet challenges the academy will face over the coming decade.

Articles In This Issue:

In the Headlines

• Hamline University will be ANACSA “Home” Campus – Fall 2005 Launch
• “Emerging Leaders” Workshop, October 7-9, Initiates ANAC Academy 2004-05 Program
• ANAC Summer Institute 2004 (June 16-19, Hampton University) – Largest in ANAC History
• ANAC Member Commencement Speakers from Hamilton to Hastert
• Institutional Representatives and CFO’s Hold Summer Meetings
  

ANAC Projects and Activities

• ANAC Academy Plans for 2004-05 and Traverso Transition
• ANAC Explores Creating NSSE Consortium
• ANAC Data Exchange Invites 2003-04 Member Data
• Observing ANAC’s First Decade and Higher Education Pluralism

ANAC Members in the News

• Ithaca College Sustainability Initiative Highlights: April North American Summit on Sustainable Development and $7 Million Gift
• PLU Completes $128 Million Campaign; Signs Talloires Declaration
• Simmons Launches Nation’s 1st Center on Home & Community Health and Hygiene; Partners with Harvard to Help Iraq’s Libraries
• Elon School of Business Receives AACSB Accreditation
• Sage Colleges Marketing Brochure Wins Award
• Capital Law School Observes Centennial; Hamline Law School Nationally Ranked
• Quinnipiac Creates College of Professional Studies; Capital Establishes Center for Computational Studies
• Hamline Partnership to Serve Non-Profit Management Education
• Hampton “On the Road to the Presidency” Summit, November 11-13
• Ithaca and Capital Hold Undergraduate Research Conferences
• Evansville and Ithaca Hold Conferences on International, Digital Communications, and Humanities Topics
• Mercer University Press Celebrates 25th Anniversary
• Famed for Drake Relays, Drake Stadium Undergoes Renovation; Drury Joins New Athletic Conference

Faculty, Staff, and Student Activities, Awards, Appointments, and Transitions

• Drake Graduates, Drury Professor Receive Fulbright Awards
• Drury Science Project Included in NASA Test Flight
• Simmons Offers Scholarships to Women from Afghanistan
• Evansville Student Wins Prestigious National Acting Award
• Drake Law Mock Trial Team Second in Nation; Drury SIFE Team Third
• North Central Professor Named Educator of Year
• Drake Professor Named to Open Government Hall of Fame
• Chief Academic Officers Named at Mercer and Hamline; Arts & Science Dean at Redlands; Development Officer at Susquehanna
• PLU and Redlands Choose Business Deans; Ithaca Selects Park School Dean

ANAC Commentary

• Becky Olive-Taylor on “Developmental Advising”

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Drake participants enjoy the Summer Institute.