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And how attentively their administrators are listening. The Council of Independent Colleges has launched the CIC Historic Campus Architecture Project HCAP , a database of searchable information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education. The photographs, drawings, and descriptions “form a treasure trove for understanding the places where students have learned and professors have taught,” says CIC President Richard Eckman. The 23 institutions responding to an informal University Business survey about the CIC HCAP indicate that the site is already being put to good use, for: campus planning; promoting a school’s presence to prospective students and staff as well as to alumni; sharing campus buildings’ histories with the public; and seeing work by particular architectural design firms. Many schools provide a link from their own websites to their pages on the CIC site, www.cic.edu/hcap. —Melissa Ezarik Campus Walls Are Talking P E O P L E WAT C H PHOTO BY KATHY ATKINSON Welcome aboard: David Roselle r , outgoing president at U of Delaware, greets Patrick Harker. Penn Dean Will Head University of Delaware How will you use the Historic Campus Architecture Project site? “[The site will reinforce] the case for the sustained development and enhancement of the university. Our strategic goals call for continued restoration and preservation of other important buildings.” —Henry N. Tisdale, president, Claflin University S.C. “As we seek to recruit students and faculty from across the country and globally, the ability to use resources like the HCAP website in our materials lends a level of credibility that entices students and faculty to further explore and research opportunities at Northwestern College.” —Doug Beukelman, vice president for Financial Affairs, Northwestern College Iowa “My hope is that campus administrators will use this survey as a way of inspiring high-quality architectural design and campus planning at their institutions and that in the current climate we can combine ‘green architecture’ and ‘sustainability’ with high-quality architecture, campus planning, and landscape design.” —George Gorse, professor Department of Art & Art History, Pomona College Calif. “The new website will give us an opportunity to see how an individual architect modified designs for various campuses or perhaps used a specific design on multiple campuses.” —Thomas R. Kepple, president, Juniata College Pa. “My sense is that higher education is in a more serious historic preservation mode, and having such a thorough site of historic campus architecture is essential to chronicling this effort. Such a resource will help all of us in the years to come as we ensure that our campuses evolve but still remain true to our individual pasts.” —Jonathan Brand, president, Doane College Neb. A F T E R 16 YEARS AT THE HELM, PRESI dent David Roselle is planning his departure from the University of Delaware. Credited with raising the stature of the public university, and with significantly beefing up the endowment, the Board of Trustees sought his replacement from a field of 100 higher education leaders. Their choice is Patrick Harker, the current dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Harker starts his new job in July 2007, a few months after Roselle officially makes his exit. Under Roselle’s leadership, UD raised its endowment to $1.2 billion, up considerably from $326 million in 1990. He charted new directions for UD, increasing student aid from $19 million in 1991 to $56 million in 2005 and increasing the academic profile of the students admitted to the university. It was the improved UD image that convinced Harker to take the job. “They have done much at the undergraduate level. I have never read a Middle States accreditation report like theirs. Roselle has revisioned the university,” he says. H a r k e r has one thing in common with Roselle—the tendency for a long tenure. As either a student or faculty member, Harker has been at Penn for 29 years. Harker joined the Wharton faculty in 1990 and later, as dean, helped raise $450 million over five years. “It was a hard decision to leave,” he admits. —J.M.A. universitybusiness.com January 2007 | 15 Update01.indd Update01.indd 15 12/18/06 11:50:07 AM Warning : Unknown : The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in Unknown on line 0 Warning : Unknown : Failed to write session data files . Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct /var/lib/php/session in Unknown on line 0 http://www.cic.edu/hcap http://universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - January 2007

Contents
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Editor's Note
Sense of Place
Stats Watch
People Watch
Viewpoint
Human Resources
Money Matters
Marketing
Financial Aid
Community Colleges
Missed Connections
Escuse Me: Can you Spare a Million?
The Associate
Media Relations Boot Camp
Admissions Administrators Speak Out
Business Technology
What's New
Calendar of Events
Direct Connect
End Note

University Business - January 2007