CIC’s Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program (V&M) is designed for senior leaders at CIC member schools to explore their potential vocational calling to serve as a college or university president, as well as examine what types of institutional missions they might best serve. V&M also invites the partners and spouses of senior leaders to join them for this program to reflect on and discern what they envision their role to be if a college or university presidency is in their partner’s future.
This year, a cohort of 20 college and university senior administrators and their spouses or partners joined together to read and think deeply about meaning and purpose in life as those values are applied to the presidency in independent higher education. Program participants gather in person twice for group seminars. The first seminar took place July 14–17 in Boulder, CO. The second seminar will take place this winter in Atlanta, GA.
Sessions at the summer seminar included discussions about “Community,” “Discernment,” “Mission,” “Commitment,” “Friendship,” “Saga,” “Self-Actualization through Vocation,” and the various ways in which all of these themes interact and influence the decision to serve as a college or university presidency as a next career step.
CIC is grateful to Lilly Endowment Inc. for its ongoing support of the Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program.
