Past Opportunities

The Senior Leadership Academy is a year-long program for mid-level administrators in higher education who aspire to senior leadership positions in independent colleges or universities.

This seminar, offered in partnership with Interfaith America (IA) is designed to increase faculty members’ knowledge, broaden their perspective, and strengthen their teaching of interfaith understanding.

The Faculty Leadership Academy (FLA) is designed to support faculty members at CIC member colleges and universities who aspire to assume leadership roles in higher education—particularly those who have demonstrated a commitment to inclusive leadership.

This program is designed to assist prospective presidents, along with their spouses or partners, to clarify their own sense of personal vocation, and to weigh it in the context of the missions of the institutions they might lead in the future.

Call for Institutional Partners (2026–28) Priority Deadline: December 31, 2025     Final Deadline: February 2, 2026     Opening Activities: Spring 2026 Go Directly to the Application Instructions About the TX-WBL Consortium CIC’s Texas Work-Based Learning Consortium (TX-WBL Consortium) is a three-year initiative designed to expand equitable access to career-building experiences for students at […]

The workshop will engage campus leaders, career professionals, and employment experts as we design a model for a National Center for Careers and the Liberal Arts.

The Religion/Theology/Vocation seminar is designed is intended for full-time faculty members at all levels. Participants will examine the interrelationship of the study of vocation and calling with the academic fields of theology and religious studies, exploring implications for research, teaching, and service to the institution.

Vocation Across Campus: Supporting Students’ Search for Meaning is designed for staff who direct campus programs or serve in other long-term administrative capacities, but who do not also hold faculty appointments. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about vocation and its importance for undergraduate students, to develop or revise programming or initiatives to support vocational exploration, and to cultivate a broader network of colleagues committed to supporting students’ work in this area. The nomination deadline for this seminar is November 21, 2025.

The Institutional Leadership for Vocation seminar is designed to bring together a group of current leaders who are eager to explore how vocational exploration and discernment can play a greater role across campus, particularly in the work that these leaders do with members of the faculty and staff, but also in curricular and co-curricular programming for students. Participants in this seminar will have the opportunity to reflect on their vocational path into leadership and how that informs the way they seek to continue to lead. The deadline for nominations is November 21, 2025.

CIC is pleased to announce a new grant program to support the efforts of independent colleges and their communities to better understand the complex histories and legacies of American slavery.

CIC is accepting applications to participate in the Individual Educator Portal that will provide selected faculty members with the opportunity to incorporate real-world, career-connected learning in courses at no cost to the institution or faculty members.

CIC is pleased to announce a series of virtual workshops to prepare member institutions to achieve and manage NSF grants in the CRII and CAREER programs. Each workshop will bring together untenured, tenure-track faculty members in computer science and related disciplines alongside grants officers at their institutions, with a focus on designing effective and compelling proposals for the CRII and CAREER programs and setting up a strong infrastructure to manage these grants.

CIC is pleased to offer a multidisciplinary seminar, Teaching Vocational Exploration, for full-time faculty members in all fields at colleges and universities that are members of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). The seminar is designed for early- to mid-career faculty members at the rank of assistant or associate professor or the equivalent.

CIC offers its State Councils the opportunity to apply for challenge grants designed to leverage additional gifts for scholarships, with the CIC grant and matching funds passed along to the State Council’s member colleges as student financial aid.

This grant is currently available by invitation only. In a future year, an open nomination process will begin.

The CIC Capacity-Building Grant Program was created to provide “seed money” grants for State Councils to enhance or expand their capacity to raise money to support their programs and member colleges.

CIC is pleased to announce a series of virtual workshops to prepare member institutions to achieve and manage NSF grants in the CRII and CAREER programs. Each workshop will bring together untenured, tenure-track faculty members in computer science and related disciplines alongside grants officers at their institutions, with a focus on designing effective and compelling proposals for the CRII and CAREER programs and setting up a strong infrastructure to manage these grants.

CIC is pleased to offer travel and participation assistance to philosophy instructors at CIC member institutions who plan to attend the 2024 Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy organized by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT).

CIC is pleased to invite faculty members who incorporate art history in their courses to apply for a grant to support student engagement with pre-modern works of European art.

The mission of the First Opportunity Partners (FOP) Grant Program is to provide matching grants to CIC State Councils in support of new, collaborative, and innovative approaches to increasing college access and success of first-generation, low-income, minority, and new American students.