Past Opportunities

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.

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 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.

CIC member institutions will form a community of practice, learning how to incorporate work-based learning into their curricula, and transforming education for thousands of students.

Participants in the NetVUE colloquy on Writing Vocation will become familiar with and better equipped to write about vocation in different contexts. They will learn about opportunities within NetVUE to write about vocation, develop possible projects, and create a writing plan for such work.

Back to NetVUE Opportunities The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is pleased to announce the first summer seminar for full-time staff in all campus offices and divisions at colleges and universities that are members of CIC’s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). Vocation Across Campus: Supporting Students’ Search for Meaning is designed for staff […]

Participants will learn to strengthen the teaching of vocational exploration by probing a variety of understandings of vocation and their importance in educating undergraduates, by developing new courses or course materials, and by establishing a broader network of faculty members committed to teaching vocational exploration.

CIC and the Center for Hellenic Studies are pleased to announce a multidisciplinary seminar on "Ancient Medicine, Science, and Magic" for faculty members at CIC member colleges and universities. The seminar will broaden faculty members’ knowledge and perspective to help them strengthen the teaching of the classics.