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2024 NetVUE Conference
This spring, leaders from NetVUE member institutions will gather to consider how they might strengthen their support of undergraduate students as they explore their many callings in life. Students and educators alike are being called to contribute to the common good, to engage with our communities, and to lead in the midst of division. Our callings are not just our own; they are vocations for the life of the world. -
Funding the Future: Proposal Development Workshop for Computer Scientists and Grants Officers
CIC offers a series of virtual workshops to prepare member institutions to achieve and manage NSF grants in the CRII and CAREER programs. Each workshop will bring together untenured, tenure-track faculty members in computer science and related disciplines alongside grants officers at their institutions, with a focus on designing effective and compelling proposals for the CRII and CAREER programs and setting up a strong infrastructure to manage these grants. -
Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission 2023–2024
The Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program is designed for senior leaders at CIC member schools to explore their potential calling to serve as a college or university president. The program is designed to help participants explore their vocational calling, as well as examine what types of institutional missions they might best serve. -
2024 Presidential Spouses and Partners Program
CIC’s Presidential Spouses and Partners Program is designed to offer insight, advice, support, and fellowship to those who share this unique role. Developed in consultation with a task force of experienced presidential spouses and partners, it is held in conjunction with the Presidents Institute each January. -
2024 Presidents Institute
The Presidents Institute is an annually held meeting for presidents of independent colleges and universities that includes programs for new presidents and for spouses. -
2024 New Presidents Program
A leadership development program for college presidents in their first or second year and their spouses or partners that addresses the practical needs and strategic questions for success as leaders of independent colleges and universities. -
2024 Spouses and Partners of New Presidents Program
The Spouses and Partners of New Presidents Program runs concurrently with CIC’s New Presidents Program in advance of the Presidents Institute. A small team of experienced presidential spouses leads the group through a comprehensive exploration of the spouse and partner role and helps each participant understand how he or she can serve in that role most effectively and with personal fulfillment. -
2023 NetVUE Gathering at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting
The theme of this pre-conference gathering aligns with the 2023 AAR theme (“La Labor de Nuestras Manos”) and builds on gatherings at previous AAR/SBL Annual Meetings. This event considers how our work, as educators in the field of religious studies and theology, might support our students’ hands-on efforts to discern their many callings in life. The cost for those from NetVUE member institutions is only $25, which includes a Thursday evening reception and dinner, as well as a light breakfast on Friday. Interested parties from non-NetVUE institutions may participate as well, at a slightly higher cost. -
2023 Institute for Chief Academic Officers with Chief Advancement and Chief Communication and Marketing Officers
This annually held meeting brings chief academic officers of independent colleges and universities together, and includes special programming for new CAOs and CAOs in their third and fourth year. This year's Institute will be jointly held with chief advancement and chief communication and marketing officers. -
2023 NetVUE Gathering at Waynesburg University: Vocational Exploration in the Classroom
This event will provide faculty members with concrete strategies for vocational exploration and reflection that they can integrate into their teaching. Participants will reflect on their definition of vocation, share current practices, and discuss innovative methods for helping students make connections among coursework, service, and career goals. -
Legacies of American Slavery: Public History Institute
The Public History Institute is designed for 3-person teams: two faculty and/or staff members from a CIC member institution plus one representative from a community-based organization. The focus will be on the public memory and interpretation of slavery, explored through seminars, site visits, and practical design workshops for public-facing activities. -
New Currents in Teaching Philosophy
New Currents in Teaching Philosophy helps philosophy instructors at smaller liberal arts colleges offer undergraduate students a more compelling and attractive experience. The Institute brings together dedicated philosophy instructors from CIC member institutions and introduces them to the designers of highly innovative, field-tested philosophy courses that serve students in a variety of majors and fields of study. -
Teaching European Art in Context
“Power and Absence: Connecting Renaissance Art to Diverse Audiences ," a seminar for CIC faculty members in art history, the arts, and other disciplines, such as history and English, will explore representations of difference in European art, ca. 1400–1700. Victor Coonin, professor of art and art history at Rhodes College, will lead the seminar that will draw upon the museum's rich collections. -
Legacies of American Slavery: Faculty Seminar
The Faculty Seminar is designed for individual faculty members from CIC member institutions who want to enhance their research and teaching about the multiple legacies of American slavery. -
2023 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs – Long Beach, CA
CIC offers the annual Department and Division Chair Workshops to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. -
2023 NetVUE Gathering at Bluffton University: Finding Ourselves at the Center
This gathering focuses on the “centers” that many institutions have established as integrated spaces—combining career development, academic advising, community engagement, diversity initiatives, internships, and other vocation-related efforts. Participants will explore models and best practices for this collaborative work, as well as how to involve various constituencies in this enterprise. -
2023 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs – Portland, ME
CIC offers the annual Department and Division Chair Workshops to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. -
2023 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs – Washington, DC
CIC offers the annual Department and Division Chair Workshops to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. -
2023 State Councils Annual Conference
The State Councils Annual Conference provides state executives and fundraising staff with a forum for face-to-face networking and an opportunity to share best practices with colleagues. -
2023 NetVUE Gathering at Wingate University: Food and Vocation
Food is the great connector and a means for exploring vocation in a world emerging from the shadow of COVID. Undergraduate students can form deep roots to feed their sense of purpose and value when they are given the opportunity to explore vocation as an "edible theology" that appreciates the past, present, and future.