Sessions

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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 […]

Do you have the optimal organizational structure in your academic affairs unit? Do you wonder if a different structure might produce different outcomes? Are you curious about other structures? In this session, we will share several case studies from start to finish reorganizing departments and programs within academic affairs. We will examine best practice in […]

This is a collaborative session in which participants crowd source solutions to common problems and issues that arise on campuses. It is set up as an “ask an expert” forum where participants pose questions for which they seek solutions prior to the session, using the conference app. Please join as a questioner or an expert, or both.

In this inclusive event, women and those interested in issues related to women in higher education are invited to join discussion groups on current issues.

Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants.

AI is not just transforming industries—it's reshaping education. This presentation offers a panoramic view of AI's potential, its growing role in higher education, and how it will likely affect our students' career prospects. Cynthia Alby will examine the higher ed community's varying responses to AI innovations, the latest in detection technology, and models for AI-enhanced learning experiences. Discover why the time is now for leaders to embrace this revolution, ensuring our institutions remain at the forefront of change.