Sessions

By invitation only. Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants and should be picked up in the main sponsor area before the meeting.

Registration is required. Please use the CIC Focus Group registration located in the Guidebook app's menu or inquire at the Institute registration desk. Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants and should be picked up in the main sponsor area before the meeting.

Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants and should be picked up in the main sponsor area before the meeting. Join us for a peer-led discussion on the complex role of females leading financial changes at colleges and universities. We will have candid discussions about strategies for effective leadership and building a network […]

Boxed lunches will be provided for all Institute participants.

A successful presidency can benefit tremendously from the involvement of a spouse or partner, both as a couple at events and programs and individually within the college and community. Finding a niche can be personally rewarding while being integral to a successful college presidency. Join us at our opening luncheon to hear how Peg Cornwell found purpose and fulfillment on campus and beyond. She will be joined on stage by her husband and former president, Grant Cornwell, to reflect on how approaching the presidency as a partnership contributed to their joint success.

Building on the morning plenary, this interactive session delves deeper into the science of institutional resilience through the spreading of joy on campus.

Many campuses report feeling dejected and adrift with how to best support access to higher education. “Education for all” remains a foundational value in our communities, even while we seek to reinvent how this value manifests. Mission, population shifts, and institutional survival continue to require campuses to know how to welcome all students and to […]

Drawing on the familiar in-flight safety metaphor, the program explores how resiliency as a president starts with yourself, but it is sustained through team relationships. Participants will join a mock team meeting that guides them through a resiliency plan that presidents could adapt for their teams. Presidents will walk away with a resiliency-guided discussion and […]

This session will examine multiple ways an institution can find resilience (for itself and for its students) through deeper attention to its mission, drawing on its roots in some form of religious affiliation—whether broadly church-related, denominationally-focused, faith-based, or through a primarily historical relationship to religion. You’ll hear from executives who direct church-related associations about how […]

Open only to currently serving college and university presidents. For a wide variety of reasons, not every presidency turns out as hoped or expected. This session features two change-oriented presidents, who, after facing surprising and difficult situations at one institution, went on to secure presidencies elsewhere. Via real-life case studies, the presentation of research, and […]