ANAC Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute Endorses Faculty Work Project Report; Chief Finance Officers Prepare for 2nd ANAC Benchmarking Conference at NACUBO, July 22, in Chicago

Participants from ANAC member institutions and invited speakers and panelists at the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute, June 14-17, at Ithaca College, endorsed the primary conclusion of ANAC's Phase II Faculty Work Project group that comprehensive steps to strengthen faculty-institutional relationships will contribute significantly to the quality and accountability of colleges and universities. The Institute discussed a variety of ways that faculty and their institutions might address issues of mutuality which could result in increased faculty responsiveness to mission priorities and increased institutional attention to faculty workload arrangements and rewards responsive to what surveys consistently find most motivate faculty. It was also observed at the Institute that institutional investments in faculty professional development are critical in an era of rapid change when technological innovations and increased competitiveness are altering the face of higher education. (Story continued below.)

Articles In This Issue:

• Faculty Work Project Preliminary Report Advocates Faculty-Institutional Collaboration
• Insights and Quotes from the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
• Institutional Representatives Affirm ANAC's Academic Focus
• Hewlett Project Plans ANAC Dissemination Conference for January 2000
• ANAC CASTL Project Expands Member Participation
• Year II of ANAC Data Exchange Underway
• ANAC Inaugurates Electronic Directory
• Media Relations Project Refines ANAC "Message"
• Foundation Honors Cunningham Presidency with $7.5 Million Gift for Music and Art Center
• Quinnipiac Becomes "University;" Butler, Susquehanna, Drake, and Hamline Fill Positions
• Ithaca College Completes Impressive Capital Projects
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Provides National Leadership on Three Critical Initiatives
• National Academy for Academic Leadership New Dean/Academic Team Workshop, July 28-August 2 -- Invites Participants
• ANAC Calendar of Upcoming Events

The Institute attracted nearly one-hundred participants from seventeen ANAC member institutions, most members sending faculty-administrative teams that used the Institute's think tank atmosphere to develop plans for tackling high priority faculty work issues back on campus. Participants were able to hear presentations and engage in discussions with several of American higher education's most respected leaders and scholars on faculty matters, including:

• Charles Glassick, former President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Mary Burgan, General Secretary, American Association of University Professors
• Thomas C. Longin, Vice President for Research and Programs, Association of Governing Boards
• Robert M. Diamond, President, National Academy for Academic Leadership
• Jon Wergin, Professor of Educational Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

At the close of the Institute more than a dozen ANAC member teams pledged efforts to implement Faculty Work Project recommendations, as a basis for case studies for presentation at the 2001 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute.

ANAC's chief finance officers will take an important step forward in financial benchmarking at a day-long ANAC mini-conference, July 22, at the beginning of the annual conference of the National Association of College and University Business Officers in Chicago, July 22-26. CFO's will review a KPMG financial ratio analysis of 1998 and 1999 ANAC member audited financial statements and a demonstration of Year II aggregate data analysis of the ANAC Data Exchange. CFO's will focus much of their agenda on identification of the most meaningful benchmarks of financial performance from the data presented. Time will also be devoted to discussion of common problems they face on campus, effective practices they have developed to solve such problems, and ways of helping each other in anticipating future challenges.