Sessions
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Recruitment and Retention: Hot Potato or Opportunity for Collaboration?
Recruitment and retention are two of the leading challenges facing higher education institutions today, but effectively addressing them requires building trust across institutional stakeholders. Enrollment management, student affairs, and academic affairs units each have contributions to make in moving the needle to attract and retain students. This panel will explore perspectives on collaborating within an […] -
Work-Based Learning for All: Using Technology to Build a More Equitable Career Preparation
Amid an ever-shifting job market, internships and other work-based learning opportunities have emerged as a critical bridge between academic learning and workforce preparation. However, there are not enough work-based learning opportunities for all students, and many students struggle to pursue available opportunities due to lack of time, transportation, or social capital. How can colleges and […] -
Introducing the New KIT and FIT – Interactive Benchmarking for Institutional Analysis and Strategy
CIC’s Key Indicators Tool (KIT) and Financial Indicators Tool (FIT) reports have provided academic leaders with critical data for institutional analysis since 2004. In 2024, CIC partnered with UQ Solutions to create an updated, interactive KIT and FIT. These interactive dashboard tools allows users to establish customized comparison groups, track their institution’s metrics in comparison […] -
Freedom of Expression: Reflecting Your Mission, Engaging Your People
Institutions of higher education are charged to both investigate truth as well as communicate truth to its constituents and communities. To do this, researchers and teachers rely upon the existence of academic freedom and free expression. Multiple external events and policies have produced a good deal of stress upon these two primary principles, particularly free […] -
Vision and Vigilance: The Provost’s Role in Student-Centered Transformation
This panel brings together contributors and the editor of The Chief Academic Officer’s Handbook: A Provost’s Guide to Visionary Leadership (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025) to explore how provosts can lead student-centered transformation. As chief academic officers navigate competing demands—institutional change, student needs, and organizational resilience—effective collaboration across divisions becomes essential. Panelists will share research-informed […] -
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Fostering a Culture of Free Expression and Civil Discourse
In our polarized era, colleges and universities must bolster students’ capacity for engaging across deep disagreement, cultivating curiosity and tolerance for perspectives different from their own. Higher education institutions cannot achieve these aims without chief academic officers taking a leading role in setting a strategy for free expression, civil discourse, and dialogue across difference, and […] -
Understanding and Navigating the Dynamic Legal Hurdles on the Track to Student Success
This session will provide an overview of current legal topics in higher education that administrators need to understand as they make policy, programmatic, and day-to-day decisions at their institutions. Participants will explore relevant legal requirements and practical approaches to meeting student success goals in an environment that is strategic, innovative, and legally compliant. -
Leading with Joy in Uncertain Times: Wellness, Boundaries, and Bold Leadership
In an era of intense political tension, institutional and personal uncertainty, and relentless demands on higher education leaders, how does one stay rooted in purpose, connected to joy, and aligned with values? This interactive workshop invites chief academic officers, student life administrators, and their teams to breathe, reflect, and recommit to practices that will sustain […] -
Individual Consultations
Schedule individual appointments with selected experts. Individual consultants’ schedules vary. Participants may sign up for consultations through Guidebook, the Institute mobile app.
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