Sessions

Participants of CIC’s Presidential Spouses and Partners Program are welcome to attend one of the following topical roundtable discussions.

Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants.

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 include a sneak peek at new features allowing you to power a […]

Eight discussion sessions will be held during this time. Click to view details.

In this session, we will learn from the wisdom and experience of partners and spouses who have navigated shocking, stressful, and daunting events during their presidencies. Hear how they dealt with these crises and how they worked with their spouses both publicly and privately.

As presidential spouses and partners, many of us are in a time of life when we must assume more responsibility for caring for our aging parents, most often from a distance, and sometimes complicated by the fact that we are also caring for children still in the home. Join us to hear from an expert with almost a decade of experience helping families with senior parents.

The 2022–23 Healthy Minds Study of over 75,000 students at more than 500 colleges and universities found that almost 70 percent of the respondents reported feelings of loneliness or isolation. In this session we will discuss measures that our campuses can take to make students feel more engaged and included.

Are we losing the wisdom race in advancing AI? Or does AI provide new opportunities for a better world? Explore the present and future impact of artificial intelligence on higher education.