FROM THE EDITOR
 

As I look back, this has been a very good year for the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers. We started off with a highly successful Annual Meeting in Chicago, successful both in terms of program as well as financially. Kudos to Barry Cohen, Rita Murdoch, and the rest of their committee. The Annual Workshop was held in Providence, RI for the first time and this proved to be a great location with attendance well above the level budgeted. Steve Gattuso and the Workshop committee did a great job. Then in June we saw the return of the Senior Business Officers Roundtable after a two-year hiatus, thanks to the special efforts of Joe Grasso. As described in a special article in this issue, twenty-five senior business officers gathered in Philadelphia for two days of discussion and decision-making. Finally, the EACUBO-Cornell Administrative Management Institute held in July had a significant increase in attendance over prior years and was well received by those attending. AMI is the only-of-its-kind program, specifically aimed at college, division, and departmental administrative managers.

Add to this, an impressive array of professional development programs offered by the various area programming committees throughout our region and its clear that this was a year when EACUBO lived up to its prime purpose of offering our members an impressive catalog of opportunities for upgrading their professional skills as well as networking opportunities galore. Let’s hope for even bigger and better happenings in 2006–2007. Hope to see many of you in Boca Raton.

— Jack Ostrom