Sessions

Ecumenical Worship Service<br>Convener: John S. Vassar, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Representatives of institutions and organizations that are members of CIC’s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) are invited to learn about ongoing network opportunities and to connect with leaders at other NetVUE member campuses. Refreshments will be served.

Alumni of CIC’s Executive Leadership Academy and Senior Leadership Academy are invited to gather for light refreshments and conversation.

All college and university administrators who identify as people of color are invited to attend this networking reception.

Connect with representatives from sponsor organizations to learn more about their services and area of expertise.

In this session you will learn helpful strategies for approaching difficult conversations with colleagues and students and put them into practice through role playing. Whether you are an experienced CAO or dean, or new to your role, you will come away with strategies for today’s challenging scenarios, and confidence in how to handle conversations with faculty, staff, and students.

What if you could build a university from scratch with few limitations? What would you jettison, what would you retain, and how would it work? Would tenure, research, shared governance, and the typical place-bound semester schedule exist? This session explores innovative academic architecture at three challenger brand institutions intending to purposefully disrupt the status quo in […]

Join this interactive session to learn how academic leaders can engage third-party partnerships to generate objective insights and augment internal capacities for growth across recruitment segments. Senior academic leaders from two CIC member institutions will discuss how collaborating with Hanover Research helped reshape their institutions’ approaches to higher education recruitment and retention strategies among non-majority […]