The Collaborative Inc. of Toledo, Ohio, took Adrian College's (MI) functional, but nondescript Shipman Library and turned it into an architectural showpiece. The renovation and expansion of the library, which was completed in August 2000, was highlighted in American School & University's Architectural Portfolio edition, winning an award in the category of "outstanding buildings: renovation/modernization." (Photo courtesy of Adrian College)

Pulse rates increase when a faculty member, president, or entire campus achieves a fundraising goal, overcomes a challenge, or wins an award. In past months, CIC institutions have had many reasons for their pulses to quicken.

Accomplishments
The Warren Wilson College (NC) Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers has earned another distinction. Two of its faculty members recently won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and fiction. Carl Dennis won the prize for his collection of poetry, Practical Gods, and Richard Russo won the top fiction prize for his novel, Empire Falls. The college's MFA program has graduated 500 students who have collectively published 300 books. There have been five MacArthur "genius award" winners, a "Book of the Year" winner for fiction, and over 20 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients in the program over the years.
    Saint John's University (MN) has the most active study-abroad program among the nation's undergraduate liberal arts colleges, according to the Institute for International Education. Juniata College (PA) has been chosen to host the May 2004 National Science Olympiad, bringing to campus 108 teams from high schools and middle schools across the U.S. and Canada in a variety of science-based events. Juniata expects 3,500 competitors, coaches, and parents to visit during the two-day competition. Juniata has hosted Pennsylvania's Olympiad competition for the past 11 years.
    The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) has recently accredited three programs, including those at Lewis College (CO) and Texas Lutheran University. The Hollins University (VA) program is also under consideration.
    Wesley College (DE) will open a charter high school, enrolling 300 students, this fall.
    Michael Viollt's publication Get In, Get Out, Get a Job (Octameron Press, 2001) lists 200 colleges that excel at a model of education for job-focused students, based upon analyses of placement services, early skill development, retention, and graduation rates. Augsburg College (MN) and Concordia College (MN) are named two of the "Great Colleges for the Real World."
    Marygrove College (MI) President Glenda Price recently was selected as one of Detroit's "100 Most Influential Women," and was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Michigan Business and Professional Association. And Chapman University (CA) credits board chair and philanthropist George L. Argyros with being the individual most responsible for Chapman's dramatic 26-year transformation from a college to university.

New Facilities
Millikin University (IL) formally dedicated its Leighty-Tabor Science Center. The $18 million facility has 84,000 square feet and is the new home to the biology, chemistry, and physics departments. It contains an observatory with a 20-inch reflecting telescope that is one of the largest university-owned telescopes in the midwest. The building was named after benefactor Roberta Morris Tabor (class of 1936) and John Leighty (class of 1931), a scientist who worked on the team that helped to develop penicillin. And a new science facility at Huntington College (IN) boasts 91,000 square-feet and is now the largest building on campus. The science hall features state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories for natural science, mathematics, and computer science-and allows the college to offer a new bachelor's degree in environmental science next fall.
    Marywood University (PA) dedicated the Michael and Dolores Insalaco Center for Studio Arts. It provides nearly 60,000 square feet of additional, well-equipped studio classrooms and creative space for arts disciplines from painting and drawing to ceramics, paper-making, print-making, weaving, and metallurgy. Part of the funding has been supplied by The Kresge Foundation, for which the main lobby will be named.

With the construction of the Michael and Dolores Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, Marywood University's (PA) art facilities now total over 100,000 square feet dedicated to the visual arts. Art enrollment has increased 100 percent since the new facility opened, made possible in part by a $750,000 grant from the KresgeFoundation. The architecture firm of Hemmler and Camayd designed the building. (Photo courtesy of Marywood University)

New Programs, New Names
Marywood University (PA) completed an 18-month series of meetings, forums, and surveys that resulted in a revised core curriculum for undergraduates. The curriculum has been unchanged for more than two decades, and college officials felt they needed to balance requirements of professional programs with Marywood's commitment to liberal arts. The university also unveils in September a new graduate degree in information sciences and a bachelor's of science in biotechnology.
    Nazareth College (NY) creates a new Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program to begin this fall, an interdisciplinary approach to the arts, humanities, and sciences for adults.
    Gwynedd-Mercy College (PA) begins a master's of science degree in special education this fall, and Tri-State University (IN) begins its first graduate-level courses as part of a master's of science in engineering technology. Huntingdon College (AL) begins an undergraduate major in global leadership. It requires work in business administration, political science, communications, and at least two foreign languages.
    Susquehanna University (PA) inaugurated the Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society. The Center is interdisciplinary and promotes scholarship, education, and community outreach. Named for a prominent jurist, the Center will feature an annual lectureship among its services. Alderson-Broaddus College (WV) opened the Alan B. Mollohan Training Center for Workforce Education. The new Center will feature training courses both on-campus and off that are customized for businesses in the surrounding 13 counties.
    St. Norbert College (WI) is one of a consortium of four educational and community institutions launching an innovative project geared to teaching mathematical concepts in new ways. It includes workshops for teachers and the development and distribution of interdisciplinary curriculum materials that are coordinated with an exhibition at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County.
    On the campus of Birmingham-Southern College (AL) in July, as many as 50 Alabama high school students who hope to be the first members of their families to attend college will participate in the first "Camp College."
    Western Maryland College changed its name to McDaniel College (MD) in July in honor of William Roberts McDaniel, a student, alumnus, professor, vice president, treasurer, acting president, and trustee whose dedication to the 135-year old college spanned 65 years, from the late 1870s until his death in 1942. "We name this college for someone who personifies our mission—and our essence," said President Joan Develin Coley during the name announcement. "His work, his philosophy toward education, particularly the liberal arts, his adamant belief in our role as 'a guide, a counselor and friend' to students—all reflect this college."
    Several colleges have been (or will soon be) granted university status, including Fontbonne University (MO), Seton Hill University (PA), Ohio Dominican University, Mount Vernon Nazarene University (OH), and Queens University (NC)

Students enrolled in lab courses in the Parker Science Building at Illinois College, get hands-on experience with state-of-the-art scientific equipment. The building, which opened in January 2002, has rapidly transformed the teaching and learning of science at the college. (Photo courtesy of Illinois College).

News About Students
Students at Juniata College (PA) are creating a digital Geographic Information Systems (GIS) map of more than 100 historically and culturally significant industrial sites in the county as part of the college's ongoing heritage project.
    Millikin University (IL) will continue Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) next year. TIPS is part of the required first-year seminar. It provides education on handling situations in which people are drinking. Officials say alcohol violations decreased by 25 percent during the TIPS instruction period last fall.
    Dickinson College (PA) recently presented "Writing Science News." Media representatives were invited to talk with scientists and student researchers. The course focuses on training future scientists to understand the importance of conveying their research to non-specialists.

Campaigns and Resources
Austin College (TX) kicked off the public phase of its $120 million Campaign for the New Era that will be the largest and most ambitious in its history. Notre Dame College (OH) starts a $5.2 million Mission Expansion Campaign to better accommodate its growing student body. The $37 million Campaign for Huntington College (IN) has exceeded its goal; contributions and pledges totaled $43 million. Wesley College (DE) has raised $60 million during its $42 million drive, "From Here to 2010: The Campaign for Wesley." John Carroll University (OH) surpassed its $100 million campaign goal.
    Jacksonville University (FL) received a major gift from the Gasper and Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation that will permit the university to construct the Lazzara Health Science Center. The center will be home to the School of Nursing as well as a planned new School of Orthodontics.
    St. Bonaventure University (NY) obtained a $3 million donation from Mr. and Mrs. William L. Richter, the largest gift in its history, to erect a new campus recreation center. It will be completed by autumn 2004.
    Westminster College (PA) received two bequests: $1.1 million for scholarships and $650,000 for biology and recreational programs. Saint Joseph's University (PA) received $850,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project that sends university students to North Philadelphia public schools. The students will develop and teach hands-on science programs that increase science literacy in traditionally underserved neighborhoods. Whitworth College (WA) received $750,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for technology in a major new academic building and in other instructional facilities on campus.
    Susquehanna University (PA) will establish the Janet C. Weis Endowment for Liberal Arts with a $500,000 grant from the Degenstein Foundation.
    Allegheny College (PA) attracted a donation of $500,000 from the Maytum Family for "smart classrooms." And Shenandoah University (VA) received two grants from the U.S. Department of Education totaling $400,000, the largest of which is for strengthening technology education in the northern and western regions of Virginia.
    Southern Vermont College received the final installment of a $150,000 pledge for its general fund.
    Saint John's University (MN) has established a fund in memory of alumnus Thomas Burnett, Jr., of the class of 1985. Burnett played a heroic role on September 11 in the hijacked United Airlines flight 93, which crashed near Pittsburgh.

Prescott College's (AZ) African drumming circle, Village Life, drums in guests to the inauguration of Dan Garvey, the liberal arts institution's 12th president. (Photo courtesy of Prescott College).

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