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| ANAC Members In The News |
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| Princeton Review Recognizes Three ANAC Members to Jumpstart 2007 Rankings Season |
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In late March, Princeton Review named Elon University, Ithaca College, and Westminster College among the 47 “best value” private colleges and universities profiled nationally for its 2007 edition. According to vice president Robert Franek, Princeton Review uses 30 criteria in ranking institutions in four categories: academics, tuition level less scholarships, degree to which student financial aid meets need, and level of student borrowing. Also in March, US News & World Report ranked the Hamline University law school dispute resolution program fifth in the nation, a status shared with Harvard, Pepperdine, University of Missouri, and Ohio State University. This is the sixth consecutive year that Hamline has been ranked in the top five in dispute resolution.
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| Sample of 2006 ANAC Member Commencement Speakers |
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| Susquehanna commencement speaker Jaime Escalante. |
With the graduation season just around the corner, a sample of ANAC member commencement speakers includes the following:
- Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine will speak at the Hampton University commencement, May 14.
- Speaking at The Sage Colleges commencement on May 13, will be Alan Chartock, WAMC/Northeast Public Radio president and CEO.
- Susquehanna University will welcome famed public school teacher Jaime Escalante as its graduation speaker on May 14. Escalante, subject of the book, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America and 1988 movie “Stand and Deliver,” was host of “Futures,” an acclaimed PBS classroom program that received a Peabody Award, the highest honor in the broadcasting field.
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| Valparaiso commencement speaker Lee Iacocca. |
Retired general and 2004 U.S. presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark will speak at the Wagner College commencement, May 19.
- Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Ford and Chrysler motor companies, will be the commencement speaker at the Valparaiso University School of Law on May 20.
- Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, will deliver the Commencement address at North Central College’s 140th graduation exercises on Saturday, June 10.
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| Belmont and Westminster Achieve Fundraising Milestones |
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| Belmont University reached its Keeping the Promise capital campaign goal of $170 million in April and has raised the goal to $250 million to be reached by 2010. Westminster College has announced its largest gift in College history, $10 million from Ginger and John Giovale of Flagstaff, Arizona, for construction of a new $30 million, 60,000 sq. ft. science center and a faculty endowed chair in science. Elon University has received a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to continue research grants targeting scholars in universities in Asia and Central/Eastern Europe in the field of science and religion. This latest grant follows an earlier $2 million grant to Elon from the Templeton Foundation that initiated this research grants program. Hampton University and Drury University recently were awarded NSF grants to introduce nanotechnology and develop an undergraduate research core in the behavioral sciences, respectively. |
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| Belmont University. |
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| Ambitious State-of-the-Art Buildings Dedicated or Planned at Pacific Lutheran, Westminster, and North Central |
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Westminster College dedicated its $15 million, 84,500 sq. ft. Dolores Dore Eccles Health, Wellness and Athletic Center in February, which also provides new facilities for the Westminster nursing program. Adjacent to the Center is a new parking garage with a soccer field on the top level to optimize Westminster’s limited campus space. On May 5, Pacific Lutheran University dedicates its new Morken Center for Learning and Technology. Robert B. Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, will deliver the dedication address titled, “The Truth about Globalization.” The Morken Center is a LEED certifiable building that will house mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, and business.
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| The New Health, Wellness and Athletic Center at Westminster. |
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| North Central College has announced plans to break ground on a $26.5 million concert hall and fine arts center. To be located near downtown Naperville, the new Center is planned to meet community as well as College needs, The 13,000 sq. ft. concert hall will have 605 seats. The building will also have a spacious art gallery, a 150 seat “black box” theater, and music offices, rehearsal spaces, and practice rooms. Gifts of nearly $10 million from scientist, entrepreneur, and music lover alum Myron Wentz have enabled construction to proceed. On another front, the new Valparaiso University Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources has received a fourth major design award, the latest for engineering excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois. |
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The new Valparaiso University Christopher Center
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| Drake Relays Focal Point in Commemorating University’s 125th Year |
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| Jesse Owens with Relays Queen Mary Ann Harris at the 1959 Drake Relays. |
Drake University held events throughout April to commemorate the university’s 125 birthday with the culmination being the Drake Relays in newly renovated Drake Stadium, April 27-29. Activities leading up to the Relays included concerts, parades, sports competitions, street painting, alumni reunions, dances, and, of course, dedication of renovated Drake Stadium. The Drake Relays is one of the oldest and most-storied college track events in the United States. |
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| SURF at Elon and Belmont Connections Highlight End of Academic Year |
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SURF at Elon University and Belmont Connections at Belmont University celebrate learning and academic life over a week-long period in late April—near the end of spring semester. Undergraduate research symposia, concerts, art exhibits, dramatic performances, poetry readings, forensics, and other activities celebrate the primary purpose of college at a time when there are many potential distractions and prepare the academic community in highly positive ways to complete the academic year.
Although not as extensive as SURF or Belmont Connections, many ANAC members hold spring undergraduate research conferences and support undergraduate scholars to present their work at regional and national conferences. Valparaiso University, for example, held its seventh annual VU Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship on April 19, featuring some 60 projects in the natural sciences, liberal arts, engineering, nursing, and business.
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| ANAC Members Launch Innovative New Programs |
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| Perhaps reflecting a nation-wide shortage of nurses, new program innovation within ANAC this spring has a decided focus on nursing. Two such programs are a 20-month accelerated bachelor of science program at Capital University aimed at persons holding degrees in other fields who wish to shift careers to nursing. Valparaiso University will initiate this fall a combined nursing-business administration master of science program for persons seeking leadership roles in health care. Capital University has also created a dispute mediation certificate program for experienced adult professionals through its Law School Center for Dispute Resolution.
The School of Education at the University of Redlands has announced that it will offer a doctoral program in Leadership for Educational Justice, designed to prepare administrators, counselors, and teachers to step into a variety of leadership roles. Several ANAC members offer the Ed.D. degree, primarily to enable school personnel to move into new professional roles. Valparaiso is also launching a two-month total immersion summer language and internship program in China for college students and primary and secondary school teachers. The University is also inaugurating a new master’s program in Chinese studies for professionals across the liberal arts and professions who wish to develop language competency and take an internship in China in one’s professional field.
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| ANAC Members Sponsor a Variety of Conferences |
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Hampton University graphic for
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ANAC members sponsor an impressive number and variety of local, regional, and national conferences. A recent sampling:
Hampton University held its 28th annual Conference on the Black Family, March 15. This year’s theme was “Rites of Passage: the Past, Present and Promise of the Black Family.” The conference featured a variety of forums, dialogues, and panels on such topics as the value of education, single fathers, nutrition and diet habits, AIDS/HIV, domestic violence, 50 years after the Brown decision, and healthy families.
Hamline University sponsored speakers, brown bag discussions, black entertainment, a gospel music evening, and other events throughout February in observing Black History Month.
Quinnipiac University invites proposals (June 15 deadline, notification by August 15) from all disciplines, especially from cross-disciplinary teams and perspectives, for presentations at the National Conference on Writing and Critical Thinking at Quinnipiac, November 17-18. For proposal guidelines and to submit proposals, email Timothy Dansdill, assistant professor of English, Timothy.Dansdill@quinnipiac.edu. The international business department at Quinnipiac hosted a three-day conference, “Doing Business in the EU: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” April 20-22.
Two April conferences at the Capital University School of Law were on these themes: “Defrosting the Debate: Analyzing the Nexus between Adoption and Frozen Pre-Embryos,” and “Bringing 100 Percent Tobacco-Free Schools to Ohio.”
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| Simmons Management School and Quinnipiac Nursing Program Recognized; Sage Radio Show Receives Award |
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| The March issue of Fortune Small Business magazine has named the Simmons College School of Management one of the nation’s top schools for entrepreneurs. In selecting Simmons the magazine noted that the College has the nation’s only MBA program designed specifically for women and offers a certificate program in entrepreneurship for women who have received an MBA from Simmons.
The Quinnipiac University Nursing Honor Society has been named a chartered chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the leading nursing honor society in the world. Membership in Sigma Theta Tau International is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship and to nurse leaders who exhibit exceptional achievements in nursing.
American Women in Film and Television (AWFT) presented its Gracie Allen Award for Best News Series to The Sage College Russell Sage College weekly radio show “51%” for its program “Her-Story: Then.” Her-Story: Then featured a 26 two-minute series of radio stories tracing the lives of women scientists and engineers from ancient Egypt to modern day Troy, New York, narrated by actress Kate Mulgrew (known for her role as Captain Kathryn Janeway of TV’s Star Trek Voyager fame).
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| Evansville Receives Undergraduate AACSB Accreditation |
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| The School of Business at the University of Evansville has received word that its bachelor’s program in business administration has received AACSB International accreditation. AACSB International is the world’s leading professional accreditation organization in business. Evansville is the latest of a number of ANAC members that have recently received AACSB accreditation, reflecting both a significant institutional investment and the rising stature of ANAC member business schools.
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| Student Service Voluntarism Alive and Well |
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| Students on ANAC member campuses are actively involved in service projects. Nearly all ANAC members contributed in some way to provide relief and recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Students at Susquehanna University went back to the Gulf Coast to assist with recovery efforts during January, accompanied by provost Linda McMillin.
Partnering with the United Methodist Committee on Relief, thirty Hamline University students spent their spring break (8 days) on the Mississippi Gulf Coast gutting and cleaning demolished homes, as a service learning project in professor Melissa Embser-Herbert’s applied sociology course. Following their return professor Embser-Herbert collected $3,000 worth of Target gift cards to help residents who are still struggling to feed and clothe their families.
A five-student team of Valparaiso University engineering students spent their spring break in Nicaragua installing a windmill and generator they built. Valparaiso’s long history of service commitment is reflected in the 16 alumni now serving in the Peace Corps and the remarkable total of 218 VU alumni who have been volunteers since the inception of the Peace Corps in 1961.
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A volunteer group from Susquehanna helping with
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| North Central and Valparaiso Sponsor Summer Children’s Programs |
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North Central College and Valparaiso University are examples of ANAC members who offer non-credit summer camps and workshops for K-12 students and adults. North Central’s comprehensive offering includes sports camps for grade school and high school youth, grades 5-7 math camps, middle school forensic science camps, and high school computer, musical theatre, and multi-media camps. A radio workshop and languages classes in English, Japanese, and Chinese are also offered. The community is invited to audition for two summer musical theatre productions, Seussical and Fiddler on the Roof, directed by former Les Miserables lead Brian Lynch. In an effort to increase career interest in nursing and related healthcare fields, Valparaiso University will offer a summer nursing camp for high school students with the Northwest Indiana Area Health Education Center.
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| Regional Economic Impact Study at Susquehanna |
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Susquehanna University is one of a number of ANAC members that conducts annual or periodic studies of the institution’s economic impact in the local region. Susquehanna University calculated a $97 million impact in the central Susquehanna valley region for the year ending June 30, 2005, an increase from $90 million the previous year. This increase, according to the study, came primarily from an increase of 9 percent in University spending for goods and services (from $25.1 to $27.3 million) from independent contractors and vendors, most based in the region. Susquehanna, with a fiscal 2004-05 budget of $45.5 million and 460 employees, is among the largest employers in the central Susquehanna valley.
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| Capital Jazz Festival; Redlands Float Selected for Rose Bowl Parade |
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The Capital University Conservatory of Music annual jazz festival was held April 3-9, with five-state school and college competitions and featured guest artist-in-residence Fred Hamilton, a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and jazz studies professor at the University of North Texas. The University of Redlands has been selected as a float entry participant in the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. The entry is part of the Redlands centennial celebration, which begins in October 2006 and runs through October 2007.
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| University of Redlands campus. |
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