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| Arcadia University and the University of Scranton Join ANAC |
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| Springtime on the Arcadia campus. |
ANAC is delighted to welcome Arcadia University and the University of Scranton who accepted membership invitations during March. Arcadia, an institution of 3,400 students, is located in Easton, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. Arcadia has received US News and World Report and Princeton Review recognition for sponsoring one of the nation’s largest study abroad programs, a global outreach that permeates the campus curriculum, including a first-year study abroad experience. Recently, NAFSA named Arcadia one of five winners of its prestigious Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. The Institute of International Education annual census indicates that Arcadia is the fourth ranking Carnegie Masters institution for undergraduate participation in study abroad.
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| Students at Scranton. |
The University of Scranton is a Jesuit institution of 4,850 students consistently near the top of northeastern Masters institutions in US News rankings. Scranton is well known for the number of Fulbright, Goldwater, and Truman scholarships received by its students. During the past three years, three students have earned Truman scholarships for graduate study and four students have earned Goldwater scholarships for seniors studying in engineering, math, or the natural sciences. More than 100 of Scranton’s students have received Fulbrights for advanced study overseas. As well, over the past three years, four Scranton students have been named to USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team.
Both Arcadia and Scranton offer a range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs around a residential liberal arts college core.
Jerry Greiner, who many in ANAC will remember from his days as provost at Hamline University, is president at Arcadia. Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., is president at the University of Scranton. For more information about Arcadia University, contact: Julie Roebuck, Director, Office of University Relations (RoebuckJ@arcadia.edu, 215-572-2969). For more information about the University of Scranton, contact Gerry Zaboski, Associate Vice President, Alumni and Public Relations (zaboskig@scranton.edu, 570-941-7669).
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| Register Now for ANAC Summer Institute 2006 |
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| ANAC members who were unable to meet the May 1 deadline are asked to register institutional teams as soon as possible for ANAC Summer Institute 2006 at North Central College, June 14-16. North Central has a lovely campus located in the heart of Naperville, IL, named by Money Magazine as the third best place in the nation to live among 1300 cities surveyed. The Institute theme this year is “Growing Together: Institutions and their Next Generation of ANAC Member Faculty and Professional Staff.” Institutional teams should include faculty, professional staff, and administrators in keeping with the effort of recent years to further collaboration across academic, student affairs, and academic support areas.
Institute plenary speakers include:
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| President Bobby Fong. |
- Bobby Fong, President, Butler University
- Roberts Jones, President, Education & Workforce Policy, LLC
- Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Director of the Center For Teaching and Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Research Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Sherril Gelmon, Professor of Public Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
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| President Hal Wilde. |
Events during the day on June 14, prior to the 5:00 pm Institute welcome reception, hosted by North Central President Hal Wilde, include a pre-conference “newcomer” workshop from 2:30-4:30 PM: ANAC: Its Mission, History and Vision (Contact Nancy Midgette – midgette@elon.edu, 336-278-6420 for more information), and meetings of the Institutional Representatives (8:30 am – 1:00 pm) and Presidents Council (2:00 – 4:00 pm). President Bobby Fong will deliver Institute keynote remarks at 7:30 pm, following the Institute opening dinner at 6:00 pm. Presidents and chief academic officers are invited to attend all of the Wednesday events, as guests of the Institute. For more information, contact Jerry Berberet – anacjberb@aol.com, 850-927-3948).
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| National Political Figures Speak on ANAC Member Campuses |
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A number of national political figures are making appearances on member campuses during 2006:
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| Former U.S. Sec. of State Colin Powell. |
Former President George H. W. Bush spoke at Butler University on March 2, before a crowd of 9,500 at Hinkle Fieldhouse, as part of the Butler sesquicentennial commemoration.
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke at the Elon University honors assembly on April 4.
- Former President Jimmy Carter collaborated with Mercer University president R. Kirby Godsey and president-elect Bill Underwood on a historic meeting of leaders of Baptist conventions and organizations throughout North America. Although held at the Carter Center in Atlanta (rather than the Mercer campus), the early April gathering, representing more than 20 million Baptists, sought to forge a unified voice on issues of peace, justice, poverty, and ethnic and religious diversity. It followed a January meeting of 200 religious and lay leaders Mercer sponsored to discuss sustaining Mercer’s Baptist identity in the wake of ending the University’s relationship with the Georgia Baptist Convention in November.
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| Retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor. |
Retired general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and U.S. presidential aspirant Wesley K. Clark will deliver the commencement address at Wagner College on May 19.
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Retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor will dedicate the new Elon University School of Law and deliver the University fall convocation address on September 19. She will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from Elon.
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| ANAC Members Gain National Media Exposure |
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| Belmont qualifies for NCAA Tournament. |
ANAC member colleges and universities are appear frequently in the national press and media on a variety of fronts. Some recent examples include the Ithaca College Cellflix festival, a student contest to produce a thirty-second cell phone movie. The winning entry by an Ithaca student was featured on ABC, CNN, and other media and received a $5,000 prize from the Park School of Communication. Belmont University had a front-page spread in USA Today after qualifying for the NCAA “March Madness” Division I basketball tournament (an achievement recalling the Cinderella stories of Valparaiso University and Butler University in recent years).
Pacific Lutheran University gained national attention for its “Seven Continents” January term study abroad programs—twenty-five programs and 370 students on all seven continents (including Antarctica), a higher education first! A January 6, Sunday New York Times article, “The Greening of America’s Campuses,” discussed environmental activities at Drury University. Ithaca College has also received national media attention for environmental efforts, most recently its Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in April. Last year USA Today featured Hampton University in a major story on the growing number of college and university student internship programs.
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| Tavis Smiley at Quinnipiac University. |
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| Ken Paulson at Belmont University. |
Media figures who have spoken recently on ANAC member campuses include CNN legal expert Jeffrey Toobin and PBS and NPR show host and commentator Tavis Smiley at Quinnipiac University. Quinnipiac Poll is a frequently cited public opinion source in the media, as is the newer Elon Poll. On May 16, Quinnipiac will confer its Fred Friendly First Amendment Award on Bob Schieffer, CBS news anchor and “Meet the Press” moderator. NBC News President Steve Capus, recipient of four Emmy and six Edward R. Murrow awards, spoke at Ithaca College on April 5, and Ken Paulson, editor of USA Today, spoke at Belmont University on April 21.
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Commemoration of First ANAC Decade
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| AAC&U president Carol Geary Schneider speaks at reception. |
During the past year a series of activities and events have occurred to commemorate the first ANAC decade. Beginning in June 2005 with a national symposium at Drury University on the future of higher education, ANAC has called attention to the core principles and values members share and recognized persons who have made central contributions to ANAC development over the years. The highlight came at a national reception, January 27, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in Washington, DC. At the reception ANAC gave a premier showing of a fifteen minute historical DVD on the contributions to American higher education that ANAC members have made since the 1830s and the evolution of ANAC since its founding in 1995.
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Paul Boyer addresses
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Those recognized at the reception include: AAC&U President Carole Geary Schneider; retired Vice President Judith Pinch of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the late Ernest L. Boyer, former President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (represented by son Paul); late Provost Frank F. Wong of the University of Redlands (represented by his widow Cynthia and son Tim); retired Ithaca College Provost and Association of Governing Boards Vice President Thomas Longin; Eugene Rice, former Director of Faculty Roles and Rewards at the American Association for Higher Education; and longtime ANAC project consultant Jon F. Wergin, professor in the educational leadership Ph.D. program at Antioch University.
In addition to the above, ANAC has produced a printed decade prospectus, a compilation of distinctive member academic and student life programs and managerial best practices, and a bibliography of publications. A book project is also in the works. The year-long commemoration will end with a special observance of the first ANAC decade at the upcoming Summer Institute 2006, June 14-16, at North Central College. The Associated New American Colleges was founded in November 1995, at a historic meeting with Ernest L. Boyer at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching offices in Princeton, New Jersey. ANAC has nearly doubled in size from twelve to twenty-three members over the years.
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| Arthur Levine Named Woodrow Wilson Foundation President |
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| Arthur Levine, President of Columbia Teachers College, will become the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation during the 2006 summer. He will replace Robert Weisbuch who became president of Drew University last fall. Levine is one of the nation’s most provocative educational thinkers. He has pioneered in incorporating technology and rethinking the future of higher education. From 1995-2003, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation served as ANAC’s administrative sponsor. |
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| Jerry Berberet reads tribute to Judith Pinch, longtime Woodrow Wilson vice president, during ANAC decade reception. |
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| ANAC a Co-Sponsor of Two National Conferences in 2006-07 |
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| ANAC has accepted invitations to co-sponsor two national conferences during the 2006-07 academic year. ANAC has joined forces with AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal conference, Faculty Work and the New Academy: Emerging Challenges and Evolving Roles, to be held November 9-11, in Chicago. ANAC will present a session, “Meeting Challenges in Recruiting and Retaining a New Generation of Faculty.”
ANAC is also co-sponsoring a conference with the Fetzer Institute and the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, February 22-25, 2007, Uncovering the Heart of Education: Integrative Learning for Compassionate Action in an Inter-connected World. ANAC will present a pre-conference workshop in collaboration with NASPA and the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, tentatively on the theme “Toward Institutional Transformation: Team-Building Strategies for Integrative Learning and Community Engagement.”
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| Bill Hall of Applied Policy Research, visits with Doug Anderson (l), CFO at Hamline University, and Paul Loscheider, North Central CFO. |
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