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AI Ready
CIC is excited to announce a 12-month AI Ready program starting Fall 2024 to foster learning, share resources, and increase effective adoption related to artificial intelligence (AI), created especially for our member institutions. The program will focus on both pedagogical and business uses for AI, bringing the current conversation about AI to key areas of campus. -
Campus Free Expression Project and Purdue University Hold Symposium on Challenges to Academic Freedom in the STEM Fields
November 1, 2023 A select group of provosts, deans, and faculty in STEM fields convened at Purdue University last month for an executive symposium to debate and discuss the state of academic freedom in higher education and how better to cultivate an open, scholarly environment for mathematics, sciences, and engineering. The symposium, Academic Freedom and […] -
CIC President Marjorie Hass Receives Award from American Council on Education (ACE)
The ACE Donna Shavlik Award highlights an individual who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to advancing women in higher education through initiatives enhancing leadership and career development, campus climate, and mentoring. -
Lilly Endowment Inc. Bestows $500,000 Grant to Support CIC’s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) Communications and Growth
In November 2023, CIC received a grant of $500,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will support an ambitious communications capacity-building project, “Telling the Story of Vocational Exploration in Independent Higher Education,” that highlights CIC’s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) and the network’s growth and positive impact. -
CIC President Marjorie Hass Appears on Diverse List of Leading Women in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlights 40 outstanding women during Women’s History Month. -
CIC Welcomes Ellen Peters in Strategic Research Role
The Council of Independent Colleges announces that Ellen Peters will be CIC’s director of strategic research and assessment starting in mid-January 2024. Peters is currently the associate provost for institutional research, planning, and student success at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She’s worked in institutional research roles at Puget Sound, which is […] -
Academic Search Establishes Fund for Leadership Development: CIC Receives $500,000 Gift
November 2023 — Washington, DC Academic Search, a leading executive search firm dedicated to higher education, proudly announces the establishment of the Academic Search Fund for Leadership Development through a donation of $1 million to be split equally between the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). The […] -
Campus Free Expression Project and Concordia University Irvine Host Symposium on Freedom of Expression at Faith-Based Institutions
April 3, 2024 A select group of university presidents and other high-ranking officials from faith-based colleges and institutions gathered to explore how to foster a culture of open inquiry. The executive symposium, “Free Expression & the Faith-Based University,” was co-hosted by Concordia University Irvine, the Center for Civics Education at Concordia University Irvine, and the […] -
CIC President To Serve on the Future of the Church-Related University Advisory Board
The Lilly Fellows Program, based at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN, in partnership with Indiana Wesleyan University’s Lumen Research Institute in Marion, IN, announces the establishment of the “Future of the Church-Related University” consultation and that CIC President Marjorie Hass will serve on the advisory board. Over the course of the last decade, the landscape […] -
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.
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