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Recently Published by ACE

What Every Student Should Know About Financial Aid

Every year, the federal government makes more than $81 billion available to help 10 million families and students finance a postsecondary education at one of the more than 6,200 colleges, universities, and trade schools that participate in the programs authorized by the U.S. government. This new publication explains how they work, with overviews of the major federal student aid programs, tax benefits available to students and families, and sample financial aid packages.

Bridging Troubled Waters: Competition, Cooperation, and the Public Good in Independent and Public Higher Education

This publication explores the implications of the privatization of public institutions, competition among all types of institutions, the potential negative impact of market-based policies on the capacity of higher education to serve the social good, and more. Bridging Troubled Waters is the third in a series of essays based on roundtable discussions among college and university presidents about what the changing relationship between states and their institutions means for the future of American higher education.

An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers

As they shape the long-term fiscal and strategic plans for their institutions, college and university leaders need to consider all aspects of faculty career cycles. One key is creating more flexible career paths for the tenure-track professoriate, as described in this report, produced as part of the Creating Options: Models for Flexible Tenure-Track Faculty Career Pathways project.

Visit ACE's online bookstore at www.acenet.edu/bookstore for a complete list of titles and ordering information, and to view select publications in portable document format (PDF).

And from the ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education: Portraits in Leadership: Six Extraordinary University Presidents

By Arthur Padilla

This book profiles six distinguished college and university presidents, each of whom faced significant challenges in terms of control, financing, and oversight. Padilla explains the enormous role that persuasion (rather than domination or power) plays in successful leadership.

Visit www.greenwood.com for more information.

New Members

ACE is proud to welcome the following new members and associates:

American College of Computer & Information Sciences (AL)

Ashford University (IA)

Bloomfield College (NJ)

Business-Higher Education Forum (DC)

California Coast University

College Misericordia (PA)

Colorado State University-Pueblo

Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (KY)

Gordon College (GA)

Grambling State University (LA)

Gustavus Adolphus College (MN)

Heidelberg College (OH)

International Import-Export Institute (AZ)

J. Robert Scott (MA)

King's College (PA)

Lander University (SC)

Marygrove College (Ml)

New England College of Finance (MA)

North Georgia College & State University

Notre Dame College (OH)

Rochester College (Ml)

Salem International University (WV)

Southeastern Oklahoma State University

University of Puerto Rico at Utuado

Wiley College (TX)

Wilmington College (OH)

Funded Initiatives

ACE is grateful to the foundations, corporations, and organizations below for their support of the following initiatives:

TIAA-CREF Institute, for generous seed support of ACE's newest leadership program, the ACE Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, to be held during the 2005-06 academic year. The TIAA-CREF Institute also will underwrite the 20th anniversary edition of the American College President study.

APS; Arizona Minority Education Policy Analysis Center (AMEPAC); The Arizona Republic; Arizona State University; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona; Citigroup Foundation; the Coca-Cola Company; the College Board; Educational Testing Sevice; ING; Intel Corporation; Lumina Foundation for Education; Maricopa Community College District; Maricopa Skill Center, a division of GateWay Community College; the National Collegiate Athletic Association; Procter & Gamble Company; the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona; Sodexho; University of Phoenix; USA Funds; and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., for their support of the upcoming national diversity conference Educating All of One Nation. The conference will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, October 6-8, 2005.

Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, ING, and the National Articulation and Transfer Network for their support of the fourth Summit for College and University Presidents and Chancellors of Color. The summit was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, June 9-11, 2005.

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