Madison, New Jersey, United States - Drew University - The Gateway Messenger for March 2014 - Volume 8 Issue 3

Madison, New Jersey, United States - Drew University - The Gateway Messenger for March 2014 - Volume 8 Issue 3
New President Appointed 
Drew University Board of Trustees named MaryAnn Baenninger as the next president of Drew.
Decision follows exhaustive search.
MaryAnn Baenninger, president of the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota, has been selected as the next president of Drew, the university board of trustees announced today.
A psychology professor who has led the private liberal arts college in St. Joseph, Minn., since 2004, she was formerly executive associate director with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in Philadelphia and a tenured faculty member at The College of New Jersey. She’ll take over at Drew July 21.
“Drew’s aspirations and goals are a direct match for my experience and for the aspects of higher education that are especially dear to my heart,” she said. “It will be a privilege to be its leader.”
Baenninger has promised to maintain Drew’s tradition of academic excellence while raising its profile, embarking on capital projects and expanding the number of international students.
“She’s a brilliant scholar who represents the best overall match to our candidate profile,” said university trustee William M. Freeman ’74, who led the presidential search committee. Baenninger, who earned her BA and PhD in psychology from Temple University, will be the first full-term female president in Drew’s 147-year history.
In Minnesota, Baenninger has been credited with building out the school’s study abroad programs, attracting international students and supporting undergraduate research. She also won praise for diversifying the student body and more than doubling the school’s endowment. Inside Higher Ed gave her an “A” for easing financial pressures by slowly decreasing the size of incoming classes after Saint Benedict’s traditional base of suburban, middle-class Midwestern students began shrinking, which resulted in an increase of net tuition. The college reached out to new geographic markets and became more selective, according to the article.
The College of Saint Benedict is a private Roman Catholic (Benedictine) college for women. It shares a faculty and academic program with Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., and men and women attend classes together on both campuses. Total enrollment is 3,860.
In a 2009 article about being the male spouse of a college president, Baenninger’s husband, Ron, a retired Temple psychology professor, joked about playing second fiddle to the most powerful person on campus: “It has astonished me to discover just how busy a president’s life can be. When my wife staggers home with a bulging briefcase after her normal 12-hour day, having dinner ready for her seems like something I can do. She rarely has breakfast with me, having left the house at the crack of dawn.”
Baenninger’s selection is the culmination of a lengthy process begun last April by Drew’s presidential search committee, made up of trustees, alumni, faculty, staff and a student, said Freeman. After receiving more than 100 applications, the committee chose 15 semi-finalists in December. Then eight were selected for in-person interviews and the three finalists were invited to Drew’s campus earlier this month to tour and conduct forums with administrators, faculty, staff and students.—Mary Jo Patterson
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Borderless Education 
The welcome mat is out.
Drew just got a little bit bigger—in fact it’s growing to include more of the planet.
Thanks to an agreement between Drew and INTO University Partnerships signed by Drew President Vivian A. Bull this week, the university is expanding its role as a leader in global education.
From its headquarters in Britain and San Diego, INTO pairs students from around the world with universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia.
The Drew partnership will be called INTO New York at Drew University.
Drew is INTO’s latest partner and only private, liberal arts university to join with the firm in the United States. INTO already has successful partnerships with other American universities, including Oregon State University, University of South Florida, Colorado State University, Marshall University and George Mason University.
“The INTO partnership is an exciting venture for the Drew community and helps us build on our longstanding international programs at home and abroad, including launching the first United Nations Semester in the country in 1962,” says Bull. “Inviting more international undergraduates to join the Drew community offers the rest of the student body the opportunity to learn with, and from, their global peers, giving them an advantage in a highly connected world.”
The first group of approximately qualified 130 international students is expected to enroll at Drew this fall, joining the nearly 50 who are already here from 21 countries. By the five-year mark, Drew is planning to have as many as 500 on campus.
Nearly 100 recruitment counselors from countries including Turkey, China, Kazakhstan and Brazil visited Drew in February. They toured campus, visited classes, met professors and took the train to New York City with faculty and staff to see the places where Drew students learn in Manhattan.
Those counselors will share the learning opportunities available at Drew with students around the world. This partnership comes at a time when record numbers of international students are studying in the United States.
International students already have started applying to Drew, says Mark Kopenski, Drew’s vice president of enrollment management. He expects to see a steady stream of applications now that INTO New York at Drew University has been formally launched.
“This partnership builds on Drew’s long commitment to global education for all its students in significant ways,” says Christopher Taylor, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts. “Globalization is always at its best when it’s a genuine two-way process. Drew will now become an even more vibrant nexus of global learning.”
“It will be the place where students come to learn about the world,” says Taylor, “and where the world comes to learn.”—Liz Moore
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NJ Architects Applause for Ehinger Center Design  
The popular campus center received a merit award this year.
Drew University students know the Ehinger Center is a great place to study, eat, relax and meet friends. But the American Institute of Architects of New Jersey has also recognized the popular campus building for its renovated, expansive design.
This winter, the AIA New Jersey chapter awarded KSS Architects, LLP a merit Award for the Ehinger Center. The award ceremony was attended by James Hall, Drew’s director of planning, design and construction.
Hall said before the building’s renovation, the design was disjointed with public areas inconveniently located. “Now it’s designed to reflect how people actually use the building,” he said. “It’s comfortable. It’s a tremendous improvement.”
The Ehinger Center is one of the most-used buildings on campus. It’s home to a student café, two lounge areas, a performance space, a pub, administrative offices, and other common areas. In 2012, it re-opened after a yearlong addition. The new Ehinger Center got an additional 3,000 square feet in space, a raised roofline, fireplaces, a two-story rotunda, a wall of windows looking out onto the campus and a barrel-vaulted ceiling—along with a new name.
“We are thrilled that the design of the Ehinger Center was recognized by the American Institute of Architects of New Jersey,” said Pamela Rew, partner, KSS Architects. “Great time and care was taken to work with the university to design a project that would elevate student life and create a rich learning environment,” she added. “The Ehinger Center truly is the heart of the campus.”
With its wall of windows, the building seamlessly blends outside and inside. Punched skylights add to the airy, well-lit environment. And the Ehinger Center, along with being home to campus offices, student clubs and the campus pub, is a well-used space that makes visitors feel at home.
Michael Kopas, Drew’s assistant vice president who oversees facilities, said, “The project was a tremendously successful collaborative effort right from the beginning. A design can only be successful when there is a clear understanding of the goals at the very outset. The project team did an excellent job in all aspects.”
The center was named in honor of Drew Trustee Tony Ehinger C’80, and his wife, Marianne Hyzak Ehinger C’80, who committed $3 million in support of the project. Initially, Tony Ehinger raised $500,000 from members of his graduating class to renovate the center’s pub, now known as the C’80 Pub. Other key donors include John H. Crawford III T’65, past chair of the board of trustees, and his wife, Cathie ’64, who gave $1 million to create a new lecture hall that doubles as event space, and trustee Gates Hawn and his wife, Mary Ellen, who donated $300,000 for a commuter lounge.
Ehinger, a retired investment banker who met early on with architect Victoria Pivovarnick of KSS Associates in Princeton, N.J., dropped by the site regularly during construction. “It’s gorgeous—awesome,” Ehinger said at the time. “But what’s going to be even cooler is seeing kids enjoying the space.” 
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Drew in the News:
•INTO New York at Drew
Drew University looks to attract more foreign students
The campus at Drew University in Madison. Drew announced this week a strategic partnership that aims to attract more international students to its campus. (Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger)
Meghan Shapiro Hodgin/NJ.com By Meghan Shapiro Hodgin/NJ.com 
MADISON — A joint venture between Drew University and INTO University Partnerships aims to draw international students to the Madison campus and expand the university's global reach, the school announced this week.
This announcement comes one month after Drew University named its first full-term woman president in the school’s 146-year history, and six months after it signed a dual admissions agreement with Raritan Valley Community College.
Dubbed INTO New York at Drew University, the new partnership means the university will be marketed by recruiters all around the world, including to students in Europe, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
The university's goal is to bring about 130 new international students to the campus for the 2014-2015 year this fall, with a goal of bringing about 500 students within the next five years.
"The INTO partnership is an exciting venture for the Drew community and helps us build on our longstanding international programs at home and abroad, including launching the first United Nations Semester in the country in 1962," Drew Interim President Vivian A. Bull said in a new release announcing the partnership. "Inviting more international undergraduates to join the Drew community offers the rest of the student body the opportunity to learn with, and from, their global peers, giving them an advantage in a highly connected world."
Currently, Drew's undergraduate College of Liberal Arts has 47 foreign students representing about 21 different countries, with additional international students attending Drew's Caspersen School of Graduate Studies and the Theological School.
Incoming international students will complete the first two years of undergraduate studies and English language coursework at Drew, and then will become eligible to complete the remaining two years of a degree program at Drew or another institution in the New York metropolitan area.
“Comprehensive internationalization cannot be a ‘one size fits all’ effort," said John Sykes, group managing director of INTO University Partnerships, in a statement. "One of the great advantages of the U.S. higher education system is that it is a rich tapestry of models and structures. "Smaller, private, well-established liberal arts institutions like Drew have much to offer international students, but may not have the resources to reach them. We are excited to introduce this unique study option to prospective international students while investing in Drew’s efforts to foster global perspectives through comprehensive internationalization.”
INTO has partnerships with 19 universities around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom and Asia. In the United States specifically, INTO works with Oregon State University, the University of South Florida, Colorado State University, Marshall University and George Mason University.

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•Drew in STEP
NJ should invest in college for prison inmates: Opinion
Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist 
Data show conclusively that prison education greatly reduces recidivism and even violence in prisons.
By Matthew Spellberg 
and Ross Lerner
The news that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to fund college-level prison education in his state should inspire other states — especially New Jersey — to do the same. New Jersey already has arguably the most comprehensive prison education program in the United States. It is growing every day, so far only with nonprofit funding. With state support, the program could achieve unprecedented results in rehabilitating and reintegrating the incarcerated.
In New York, data show conclusively that prison education greatly reduces recidivism and even violence in prisons. Education offers incarcerated people a connection to the outside world, training for the future and, above all, a sense of dignity and purpose, two things as necessary to the survival of human beings as food and shelter.
In this state, college-level prison education has been overseen for the past year by the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium. This is a coalition of prison teachers drawn from the county community colleges, Rutgers, Drew University, the College of New Jersey and Prince­ton. STEP offers more than 50 classes each semester in six of the state’s 13 correctional facilities, to more than 500 students.
In addition, STEP carries under its umbrella the Mountainview Project, a student and faculty organization that helps formerly incarcerated students in New Jersey apply, enroll and graduate from Rutgers. Almost 50 students are involved in Mountainview so far.
STEP students receive community college credit for their coursework in subjects across the academic spectrum. This credit can be transferred between prisons, to community colleges and Rutgers.
Community activists and educators have long bemoaned the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Underfunded and understaffed public schools are often incapable of supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds. These young people, whom the education system has failed, are regularly funneled into the criminal justice system.
STEP takes a new approach: build a pipeline that leads from the prisons back into the schools.
NJ-STEP is a model for future prison education for at least three reasons:
First, it believes prison education must have institutional legitimacy. Our students want to be held to the same standards as students on the outside, and they want to take classes that will be recognized by teachers and admissions officers everywhere. STEP provides legitimacy by accrediting every course through the county community colleges, and through its transition team, which helps students continue their education on the outside, whether at the community colleges or Rutgers.
Second, STEP believes in offering the fullest range of courses possible. Our students understand better than anyone the value of every kind of education. To learn something is to gain the power to make yourself anew. In prison teaching, the conventional distinctions between the practical and the intellectual, the vocational and the academic, do not apply. Our students are as hungry to study business administration as they are Homer and algebra.
Third, NJ-STEP is based on an unprecedented collaboration between different kinds of academic institutions: public and private, local and international, four- and two-year. It draws on the strengths of the many wonderful schools in the state — as different as the community colleges, Princeton, Drew and TCNJ — and treats them all as partners in a comprehensive project along with the Department of Corrections and the State Parole Board.
New Jersey is poised to stand at the forefront of prison education in this country, and to make a major contribution to resolving our ongoing incarceration crisis. NJ-STEP has been leading the way, supported by the Vera Institute Pathways Project, among others. We only hope that Gov. Chris Christie and the state government take notice, and don’t pass up the chance to support a program that reduces recidivism, fosters a statewide community, and prepares incarcerated men and women for their return to the world in which we all must live together.

Matthew Spellberg and Ross Lerner are graduate students at Princeton University and teach humanities courses with the Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative.
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•Prof McGuinn on NJ Pension Reform
THINK TANK FINDS FAULT WITH NJ'S PENSION-REFORM PLAN FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
As Gov. Chris Christie calls for unspecified changes to state employee pension programs to restrain their ballooning costs, a new think-tank report on pension reform in four states describes the plan New Jersey enacted in 2011 as “limited” and “less innovative” than those of other states.
The Brookings Institute report released yesterday describes the political dynamics that allowed Christie, a Republican, and Democratic legislators led by Senate President Stephen Sweeney to reach a compromise that boosted teacher pension contributions, raised the retirement age, and made other cost-saving changes in exchange for obligating the state to make its annual payment into the system, which it has rarely done in the past.
As a result, New Jersey is no longer near the top of the list of states with the largest unfunded pension liabilities, a distinction it once shared with Illinois and California, according to the report by Patrick McGuinn, an associate professor of political science at Drew University.
But the report quotes experts who agree with Christie’s remarks on Tuesday that pension costs, along with health benefits and debt, are still consuming most of new state revenues and will continue to grow, leaving little for increased funding of education, public safety, and other important programs.
“The state did not make the kind of structural changes -- such as moving to a defined contribution or hybrid plan -- that some observers believe are necessary to ensure the sustainability of pension plans over the long-term and better adapt it to the needs of the workforce,” the report says. “There is some debate over whether the state’s reforms should be considered a ‘success story’ or not, and only time will tell.”
Despite the passage of the compromise legislation nearly three years ago, the eight-year phase-in of the state’s pension contribution will still allow its unfunded pension liability to grow to $58 billion by 2019, the report notes. Christie said this week that the unfunded portion is currently $52 billion.
It is unclear if New Jersey will be able to make the required contributions, which will reach $5 billion a year by 2018. The state is also using overoptimistic projections for the growth rate of pension fund investments and lacks a 401(k)-type defined contribution option for employees, which could save money, the report says. In addition, even the limited reforms that were approved remain under legal challenge by state employee unions.
“New Jersey can be viewed both as a positive example of how reforms can be enacted despite the opposition of powerful interests, and the significant barriers to major structural reform,” McGuinn writes.
The report on public employee retirement system reform in Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Utah came a day after Christie’s unveiling of a record $34.4 billion state budget that includes next year’s required $2.25 billion unprecedented pension contribution.
Christie had suggested in his State of the State address last month that the money was needed for other programs, and Sweeney threatened to shut down the government if the budget made less than the full payment required under the 2011 law.
In his budget address on Tuesday, the governor praised the pension reforms but repeated his call for more changes, without making any specific proposals. He cited the cautionary tale of Detroit, whose emergency manager in December won a judge’s approval to cut retiree pension payments as the city works through bankruptcy.
“With our long-term obligations only set to increase in the coming years, the problem isn’t going away by itself,” Christie said. “We must do what we were sent here to do by the people -- lead and act decisively once again. The reality is that the aggressive reforms we enacted together have only bought us time.”
McGuinn said Christie’s decision to go ahead with next year’s contribution is a good sign for long-term pension reform, but it is difficult to see how the state will be able to come up with the much larger payments required in a few years.
“If $2.25 billion is really hard, $4 to $5 billion is a heck of lot harder,” McGuinn said in an interview yesterday.
“Particularly when we're talking about a governor that has made a pretty strong no-new-tax pledge, to generate new revenue that might help pay for that, and where we're in a situation where, as he acknowledged in his budget speech, 94 percent of the new revenue coming into the state this year went to pay three things, pension, health and retirement benefits, and debt. So there’s very little left over already for new investments,” he said.
McGuinn described Christie’s earlier suggestion that the pension money is needed elsewhere as a “shot across the bow” as he prepares to demand deeper pension reforms in the near future.
“It's reasonable to think that next year, again, as the payment goes up, he’s going to push, in exchange for making that payment, to open up the reform question again. And again, Democrats said they won't,” McGuinn said. “Somebody or something’s going to have to budge.”
The state reform efforts analyzed in the report include a plan passed in heavily Democratic Illinois last year that in some ways resembles New Jersey’s. It reduces cost-of-living increases for retirees and hikes the retirement age, while committing the state to increasing its pension contributions. However, unlike New Jersey, Illinois is making its full contribution immediately.
As in New Jersey, critics say Illinois’ reforms only delay the state’s fiscal reckoning and do not make needed structural changes, and the plan faces a legal challenge.
Rhode Island, while also a strongly Democratic and heavily unionized state, made reforms described as the most comprehensive in the nation. In 2011, the Democratic governor, Lincoln Chaffee, signed a law that suspended cost-of-living increases for retirees -- including current workers -- while gradually raising the retirement age to 67 and creating a hybrid plan with a defined benefit element. It is being challenged in court but a tentative settlement is in the works.
The report notes that New Jersey, like Illinois and Rhode Island, is a pro-labor state with a Democratic-controlled Legislature. “Unlike those other two states, however, New Jersey had a Republican governor in office when the reforms were enacted. It thus offers a rare example of bipartisan pension reform,” the report says.
New Jersey is also unusual in that its pension system encompasses all state employees and some municipal workers, covering more than 780,000 employees, the report says. Of the 500,000 current workers, about 200,000 are teachers.
Utah, which is a largely Republican state, was not facing as acute a crisis. A bill approved there in 2010 allows state employees to choose between a 401(k)-style plan or a hybrid and increased the number of years future employees must work before retiring.
McGuinn concludes the report with a list of lessons, including the crucial importance of making the state’s full annual contribution, as New Jersey is still failing to do even under the 2011 reforms. He stresses the need for a credible and visible individual to champion controversial reforms, as Sweeney did, and described the state senate leader as “uniquely positioned and qualified to deliver the message” because of his history as a union leader.
Reformers also need to disseminate data to add urgency to their efforts, educate legislators and the public, avoid turning reform into an ideological issue, demonstrate pensions’ impact on taxes and other spending priorities, and sell the benefits of reform, as Christie did by discussing the risk of pensions disappearing at 38 town hall events, the report says.
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In memoriam
Baldwin Grandson and Namesake of Haselton Hall Is Fondly Remembered
Trustee Phil Haselton passes on.
Haselton was the grandson of Leonard Baldwin, who co-founded Drew’s College of Liberal Arts. On homepage, Haselton is second to right, next to former Drew President Paul Hardin, in 1982.
Haselton was the grandson of Leonard Baldwin, who co-founded Drew’s College of Liberal Arts. On homepage, Haselton is second to right, next to former Drew President Paul Hardin, in 1982.
Not only was Philip H. Haselton Drew’s longest-serving trustee, devoting 43 years under four presidents, but his family is woven into the university’s very fabric.
Haselton died on Feb. 27 at the age of 88.
The Haselton name appears across campus, including a family scholarship in his parents’ names, the Cynthia Baldwin Haselton and Philip H. Haselton Scholarship; a research fund bearing his wife’s name, Shirley Haselton; the Haselton Room at the Simon Forum and Haselton Hall, home to six theme houses. In addition, Mr. Haselton’s nephew, the Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan, is a very active member of Drew’s Board of Trustees.
Haselton was also the grandson of Leonard Baldwin, who, together with his brother Arthur, founded Drew’s College of Liberal Arts.
“His family was part of the tradition at Drew,” says Trustee Heath McLendon. “And his connection to Drew was part of his family’s history.”
Born in 1925 in Orange, N.J., Haselton served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. He studied civil engineering at Pennsylvania Military College and the University of Maine at Orono. After being discharged from the Army, Haselton attended Cornell University and graduated in 1948. He married the former Shirley Brown, and they raised four children in Short Hills, spending considerable time in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
Haselton served as president and chairman of Detex Corporation, a security hardware company co-founded by his father in 1923. He served on the Drew Board of Trustees and was chair from 1979 to 1984.
“We are deeply grateful to Philip and his entire family for their generosity and service to Drew for a remarkable 85 years,” said Drew President Vivian A. Bull. “Our entire community would be sorely diminished without them. Phil and his legacy will not be forgotten.”
Hasleton’s survivors include daughters Kay Wilder and her husband Matt, Carol Pfister and her husband Paul, son Philip Haselton and his wife Kerry, daughter-in-law Cyndi Ames Haselton, who was married to his late son Gary, 11 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, his friend Barbara Rumsey and dog Greeley. Haselton’s wife, Shirley, died in 2006.
A private memorial service will be held this summer in Maine, and plans are being made for a Drew service later this year. Gifts may be made in his memory to the Shirley Haselton Endowment for Undergraduate Neuroscience Research at Drew.—Liz Moore
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3/19 Siler Lecture
3/20 Andrew Scrimgeour Retirement Celebration
3/25 Merrill Maguire Skaggs Lecture
3/20 & 3/27 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Seminar
3/27 Deacon Day
3/28 Garyth Nair Tribute Concert
3/28 Congregational Healing from Crisis and Trauma
3/28-30 Theological Transdisciplinary Colloquium
4/1 Arts & Letters Dinner
4/3 Young Alumni Reception for Barbara Walters Lecture
4/4 Korn Gallery Opening Reception: Palestinian Textiles
4/5 JamFest Reception
4/5 Esther, Ishtar, & Easter, or Scripture, Satire, & Survival
4/5 The Labyrinth as Spiritual Practice
4/5 da Camera Concert Series: Siren Baroque
4/8 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies: Open House
4/9 Sugerman Interfaith Forum
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