THE WIT, THE WILL ... AND THE WALLET
Supporting Educational Innovation, Shaping our Global Futures
KEEPING OUR FOCUS IN TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES
Sessions from AAC&U’s Office of Advancement and Leadership Development
Taking the Lead: The Role of Private Foundations in Supporting Liberal Education
America’s private foundations do much more than simply pump money into the academy. They leverage their capacities as funders to encourage colleges and universities to adopt agendas and develop programs that move higher education in new directions and for new purposes. Leaders of national funding organizations will discuss their agendas for American undergraduate education while also examining their roles as agents of change in the academy.
James Applegate, Senior Vice President for Program Development, Lumina Foundation; Barbara Gombach, Project Manager, National Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Donna Heiland, Vice President, Teagle Foundation
Federal Funding for the Campus and the Curriculum: Current Perspectives from the Grant-Making Agencies
The competition for federal support of campus initiatives in increasing, as is the need for external federal funding. Representatives from federal agencies that offer grants for higher education will discuss current trends and grant opportunities.
William Craig Rice, Director, NEH Division of Education Programs; Ralph Hines, Acting Director, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; Susan H. Hixson, Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation
One-on-One Consultations with Program Officers
AAC&U has invited program officers to the Annual Meeting for confidential, informal meetings on Thursday, January 21, or Friday, January 22. Space and times are limited, and we expect interest to be high. Please write to development@aacu.org to sign up for this consultation.Times will be made available on a first-come first-served basis. There will be a sign-up at the Annual Meeting should additional times become available.
Myles Boylan, Program Officer, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation; Claire Cornell, Program Officer, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education; Rebecca Boggs and Julia Nguyen -- both Senior Program Officers, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
FEATURED AND CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Can We Deliver Quality at a Lower Cost?
The cost of higher education has drawn increased national attention. High costs deny access to higher education to many and create severe financial hardships for others. Taken together, these results have profound social consequences. Conventional academic wisdom says that colleges and universities cannot reduce the cost of delivering their programs without reducing their educational quality. So each year, institutional leaders struggle with the dilemma of wanting additional resources to increase the quality of their programs, while trying to keep tuition affordable. This session will suggest that the assumptions behind the claim that instructional costs and quality are linked need to be reexamined. In addition, it will describe some new instructional delivery systems that can substantially reduce costs while increasing student learning.
Michael S. Bassis, President, Aric Krause, Director of the Division of New Learning, and Tana Monaco, Associate Professor of Management – all of Westminster College, Salt Lake City
Affirming Educational Priorities at Public Liberal Arts Colleges in an Era of Fiscal Uncertainty
Current economic challenges have obliged all sectors of the higher education community to adopt campus-wide efficiencies while keeping the focus on enhancing student learning. As small to medium-sized public institutions, COPLAC colleges and universities have responded to the current situation with innovative approaches to many aspects of campus life. This session will highlight some effective responses tofiscal uncertainty at three public liberal arts colleges.
Moderator, Carol Long, Provost, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
Presenters: Dorothy Leland, President, Georgia College & State University; Suzanne Shipley, President, Shepherd University; Peter Mercer, President, Ramapo College of New Jersey
This session is sponsored by the Council on Public Liberal Arts Colleges
Campus-Community Engagement:
Financial Implications, Campus Perspectives and Intentional Strategies
This interactive session with representatives from four diverse institutions describe financial challenges facing their own institutions in relation to civic engagement and community based partnerships. Each addresses: (1) strategies for maintaining commitment to the mission, while upholding sound budgetary decision making in the face of competing institutional needs (2) how different administrative responsibilities informs perspectives on this compelling issue. Attendants share strategies from their campuses in relation to personal and social responsibility and community partnerships.
Devorah Lieberman, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wagner College; Sherril Gelmon, Chair, Division of Public Administration, Portland State University; Judith Ramaley, President, Winona State University; Susan Agre-Kippenhan, Dean, College of Arts and Architecture, Montana State University
Leadership in Uncertain Times:
What We Want and Need From Campus Leaders
A panel of presidents from five master’s comprehensive universities will discuss the particular challenges to leadership they face during uncertain economic times and their strategies for managing those challenges. The panelists will discuss what specific roles campus leaders –both administrators and faculty – can play in helping the institution ensure its vitality during uncertain times; what particular needs and expectations presidents have for themselves and their senior leadership teams; and the qualities, behaviors, and skill sets they look for.
Bobby Fong, President, Butler University; Richard Guarasci, President, Wagner College; Linda Hanson, President, Hamline University; and David Maxwell, President, Drake University
This session is sponsored by the New American Colleges and Universities
The Provost—CFO Partnership: Reflections on Effective Teamwork
The need for open communication between those responsible for guiding institutional investments – in bricks and mortar, academic and co-curricular programming, and personnel – has never been more important than it is today. The capacity of chief financial officers and provosts to create and sustain effective, collaborative partnerships in furthering the institution’s mission, is particularly critical when the forces of fiscal constraint and enrollment uncertainty coincide with pressures to enhance academic quality and reputation. Three experienced teams of CFO's and Provosts will reflect, often with humor, on how they have worked together to move their institutions forward. They will discuss specific challenges and obstacles, as well as successes, and suggest strategies for how these key relationships can be built and nurtured over time. All three institutions are at a point of transition, as these three seasoned provosts, who together have been in their academic leadership roles for more than half a century, retired in June.
Roy Austensen, Professor of History, and former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Charley Gillispie, Vice President for Finance and Administration – both of Valparaiso University; Gerald Francis, Executive Vice President and former Provost, and Gerald Whittington, Vice President for Business, Finance and Technology – both of Elon University; and Ronald Troyer, Senior Counselor for International Initiatives and former Provost, and Victoria Payseur, Vice President for Business & Finance – both of Drake University
This session is sponsored by the New American Colleges and Universities
Low-Cost Strategies for Promoting Undergraduate Research at Research Universities
This interactive session will explore economical and effective ways in which universities can promote undergraduate research experiences. Nationally, there is a growing trend for universities to establish a central, campus-wide office that coordinates opportunities for research-related activities in all academic disciplines. Three panelists who lead undergraduate research offices at large research universities will discuss lessons learned about cost-saving efficiencies and coping with recent budget declines while maintaining access to quality research experiences for students.
Allison Snow, Director, Undergraduate Research Office, and Professor of Biology, The Ohio State University; Janice De Cosmo, Director, Undergraduate Research Program; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, University of Washington; Said Shokair, Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of California at Irvine; Helene Cweren, Program Manager, Undergraduate Research Office, Ohio State University
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