Sessions

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

Two affinity group meetings will be held during this time. Click to view details.

This session will be an informative conversation about how provosts and vice presidents of advancement can work collaboratively to secure millions of dollars in external grant funding. The presenters will discuss the common goals of provosts and vice presidents of advancement, the structural obstacles to collaborative efforts to secure grant funding, and importantly, ways to mitigate these obstacles to collaboration. The session will review two case studies, one at Juniata College (PA) and one at Hood College (MD), both of which resulted in millions of dollars secured for scholarships, academic programs, undergraduate research, and student support services.

Most colleges and universities want and need to improve the student experience, and most also have an extraordinary amount of student data, but don’t use it strategically to meaningfully impact student outcomes. In this session, student success experts and practitioners will explore what it can look like when institutions use data to connect all facets of a student’s individual journey, make that data practitioner-focused and actionable, and organize structures and culture around student success.

Many CIC institutions were formed as liberal arts colleges with a primary programmatic focus on traditional undergraduate students. While some have had a limited number of “legacy” graduate programs for many years, more and more CIC institutions have begun to consider offering adult and graduate programs. This panel will examine some of the issues that institutions should consider when making these transitions and the structural and governance pros and cons for implementing and overseeing these programs.

This session will appeal to veteran chief academic officers as well as those with 4–5 years in their roles thinking about what is next. How do they create systems and organize their work so that they don’t stagnate? How do they ensure that they remain current and contemporary as they stay in their roles? What sustains and rejuvenates them in the midst of disruption?

How often have you heard or felt, “Our program is our best-kept secret—we just need to promote it.”? Promotion, while important, is not a sustainable strategy for every program—especially if there are not enough resources to promote every program individually. Join this panel of marketing and academic officers as they illustrate outcomes of strong collaborations that not only unlock the potential for a robust academic program portfolio but also drive long-term programmatic success.

As mental health continues to be a topic for educators, students, and campus communities, the need for sharing creative interdisciplinary solutions is rapidly increasing. This presentation includes an overview of an interdisciplinary framework to increase the use of Trauma Informed practices in course design, faculty interactions, and creative activities to teach students, faculty, and staff about trauma's impacts on the learning process. Techniques such as classroom simulations, guest presentation designs, and campus-wide assessment tools help cultivate collaboration surrounding emotional literacy and trauma-informed higher education.

Support from national foundations can be transformative for smaller colleges and universities, funding initiatives that foster faculty development, provide programming and resources to students, and offer opportunities for experimentation and innovation. Join CIC for a behind-the-scenes look at how foundation officers choose the areas of support they do, why they choose to fund certain projects, and how CIC member institutions can position themselves for success.

This session describes how one campus employed a radical approach to achieving the goal of building and maintaining an inclusive academic affairs division. It provides examples of strategies that chief academic officers can employ and shares lessons about how to work with deans, department heads, and others in academic affairs (library, registrar, student tutoring, and teaching and learning centers) to implement campus diversity goals.