Past Events

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.

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 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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At this NetVUE regional gathering, participants explored the various conditions in our institutions which enable (or restrict) students' capacities to thrive and discover their vocation.

The Presidents Institute is an annually held meeting for presidents of independent colleges and universities that includes programs for new presidents and for spouses.

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.

This event built on NetVUE gatherings at AAR/SBL meetings in 2019 and 2021 (focusing on interreligious conversations and issues of justice). The event included panel presentations, book discussions, and interactive conversations, as well as opportunities for socializing and networking.

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 financial and chief enrollment officers.

As colleges seek to prepare the next generation to be independent thinkers and engaged citizens, courses on banned books or democratic disagreement stand to bolster students’ ability to engage in dialogue across difference and deepen student understanding of open inquiry and free expression. Join the Bipartisan Policy Center for a conversation with three professors who […]

The 2022 NetVUE Conference will address the theme, “Called into Community: Vocation, Engagement, and Difference.” The goal of NetVUE is to provide a nationwide campus-supported network to foster the intellectual and theological exploration of vocation among college and university students.

This gathering provided an opportunity for teachers and scholars in the field of religious studies to explore the ways that their undergraduate classrooms can become sites for deeper conversations about issues of justice.