Sessions

After an afternoon of sessions, it will be time to reconnect and enjoy each other’s company. All Institute participants are invited to gather for drinks, refreshments, and conversation.

CIC’s Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program is designed for senior administrators—and their spouses or partners—who are considering whether to seek a presidency. The program helps participants clarify their calling to serve, explore the rich diversity of colleges and university missions with an eye towards the type of mission that best aligns with the unique […]

Calling all poets and poetry lovers! We are inviting you to an hour of relaxed and informal sharing. We will be featuring volunteers of all levels of mastery to share a favorite poem, be it their own work or someone else’s that they admire. The roles of audience and readers are equally valuable.

Discover how to maintain a competitive edge by quickly launching new in-demand programs, concentrations, or minors and enhance your academic offerings by delivering microcredentials and stackable certifications as members of CIC’s Online Course Sharing Consortium (OCSC), powered by Acadeum. This interactive session will also include a sneak peek at new features allowing you to power a Marketplace to offer credentials and training. These new opportunities create points of differentiation to help drive enrollments and better prepare students with majors that align with in-demand careers. Hear from peer institutions and get a first look at how colleges and universities are able to move quickly with curricular innovation.

Academic leaders have new challenges in managing large-scale change within an abbreviated time frame that often requires herculean effort with high risk. This “best practices” session examines strategies for major change and change leadership using the case study of a wholesale revision of the faculty handbook at two different institutions, and how handbook changes connect to larger governance and institutional reform.

Briefs from the Field is a moderated panel on the status of policy and practice in admissions and campus programming in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling: How does it feel to educate in a polarized environment?

One affinity group meeting will be held during this time. Click to view details.

Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants. Roundtable discussion groups will provide opportunities to gain practical advice from colleagues. Discussion facilitators will be experienced colleagues with insight to offer on each topic.