Research

After receiving a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2020, CIC began to study the use of open educational resources (OER) at small to mid-sized independent colleges and universities that are CIC members, with the goal of producing a research report on the findings. This project focused on those institutions that serve […]

Two core principles of higher education—academic freedom and free expression—are undergoing a period of great stress. There is overwhelming survey research and other evidence that the intellectual climate on many college and university campuses is being constrained. Faculty are deterred from exploring certain subjects and expressing candid opinions even off campus; students are self-censoring; outside […]