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CIC President Emeritus Richard Ekman honored at 2022 Presidents Institute

The CIC Online Course Sharing Consortium allows member institutions to support student success, expand curriculum, drive enrollment, and generate new revenue by sharing courses with trusted partners online.

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 […]

November 30, 2021 Today, a Bipartisan Policy Center task force, featuring former governors, college presidents, and academic and civic leaders, released a new guide for colleges to address the factors that have stifled free expression on school campuses in recent years. The report, Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap, identifies several of the social, civic, […]

2022 Presidents Institute plans to return to in-person gathering

2021 Workshops for Department and Division Chairs go virtual in Spring 2021

Highlights and achievements of 2021-2022 Visiting Fellows

Fall 2021 State Councils Update: CIC/UPS Scholarship Amounts Increase; New Grant Develops Career-Readiness Project

Fall 2021 Recent Research and Books

Fall 2021: A Compendium of recent news from member institutions

A Message from President Hass: Support, Advance, Enhance: CIC and Independent Higher Education

​CIC welcomed its new president, Marjorie Hass, on July 12, 2021.

2021 Institute to Highlight CAO-Student Affairs Collaboration

CIC Members Forge New Pathways for Community College Transfer Students in North Carolina and Ohio

In Fall 2021, NetVUE members received new grants and returned to live events

Highlights from 2021 Leadership and Faculty Development Programs

Fall 2021 CIC Updates: Research and Staff

December 3, 2020 By Cecelia Vieira Higher education administrators, tasked with maintaining a school’s commitments to free expression, address everything from open inquiry protections to speech code reforms. Looking beyond policies, the task of fostering a campus culture which both celebrates viewpoint diversity and acknowledges our country’s history of censorship can be especially challenging, yet […]

March 19, 2020 By Steven F. Hayward The ongoing campus controversies over free speech versus hate speech grind along deepening ruts that cannot escape two difficulties. The first is that a rigorous and intelligible definition of “hate speech” is elusive. The second is that current First Amendment jurisprudence defaults in favor of maximum protection for […]

September 9, 2019 By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill Freshmen are beginning to arrive on campuses across the country, often far from home for the first time, and meeting classmates from diverse cultural communities. The dorm lounges will be full of arguments about big political, cultural, and social issues over late-night pizza. Learning about the different cultural […]