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2023 NetVUE Gathering at Waynesburg University: Vocational Exploration in the Classroom
This event will provide faculty members with concrete strategies for vocational exploration and reflection that they can integrate into their teaching. Participants will reflect on their definition of vocation, share current practices, and discuss innovative methods for helping students make connections among coursework, service, and career goals. -
An Introduction to Student Ally: A Title IX Solution
As you know, Title IX requirements have expanded dramatically in the last 5 years, as have student and parent expectations regarding safety and support resources. While state universities have created and staffed new departments to mitigate the risk of Title IX liabilities, the tools that CIC member institutions need to keep pace haven’t always been available. -
2023 Foundation Conversation
The Foundation Conversation is an annual meeting of dialogue for corporate and private foundation officers and leaders of liberal arts colleges and universities. -
2023 Institute for Chief Academic Officers with Chief Advancement and Chief Communication and Marketing Officers
This annually held meeting brings chief academic officers of independent colleges and universities together, and includes special programming for new CAOs and CAOs in their third and fourth year. This year's Institute will be jointly held with chief advancement and chief communication and marketing officers. -
Senior Leadership Academy
CIC and the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI) are pleased to announce the 2023–2024 Senior Leadership Academy (SLA), a yearlong program for administrators in higher education who aspire to cabinet-level positions in independent colleges or universities.
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Monique Taylor
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Champlain College
Monique Taylor is the provost and chief academic officer at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Taylor most recently spent 18 years working in international higher education with teaching and administrative positions in Mexico, China, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the West Bank. In another lifetime, she was a liberal arts professor in Los Angeles […] -
Tynisha D. Willingham
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, Mary Baldwin University
Tynisha D. Willingham is the vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer at Mary Baldwin University. In her role as the chief academic officer, Willingham provides strategic leadership for academics at Mary Baldwin University. She is leading the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan impact report process and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools […] -
Chad Berry
Vice President for Alumni, Communications, and Philanthropy, Berea College
Chad Berry is vice president for alumni, communications, and philanthropy at Berea College, where he previously held the positions of academic vice president and dean of the faculty, director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, and director of the Center for Excellence in Learning through Service. Prior to joining Berea in 2006, he was a […]
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Elfred Anthony Pinkard
President in Residence, Council of Independent Colleges
Elfred Anthony Pinkard is president in residence at the Council of Independent Colleges. Previously he was president of Wilberforce University from 2018 to 2023. Earlier he served as executive vice president and provost at Wilberforce University, and as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Johnson C. Smith University. He also served as executive […] -
Jennifer Keating
Teaching Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Keating serves as a teaching professor and the writing in the disciplines specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. She previously served as assistant dean for educational initiations in the Deitrich College for Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2020, Keating coauthored AI and Humanity (2020) alongside Illah R. Nourbakhsh. -
Nicholas Adams
Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of Birmingham
Nicholas Adams is professor of philosophical theology at the University of Birmingham in England. He began his academic career as an expert on German Idealism and its impact on Christian theology, writing on the work of Jürgen Habermas (Habermas and Theology, 2006) and G. W. F. Hegel (Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in […] -
W. Carter Aikin
NetVUE Grant Director
Carter Aikinserves as the NetVUE grant director. He has primary responsible for administering CIC’s wide array of NetVUE grant programs, working on a half-time basis from Blackburn College, where he has served as professor and chair of philosophy and religion since 2014. He has led vocational initiatives at three different NetVUE member schools across his […] -
Sherita C. Ashmon
Director of State Council Programs and Networks Support, Council of Independent Colleges
Sherita C. Ashmon joined CIC in 2010 and is the director of State Council programs and networks support. She serves as the primary CIC liaison to State Council members and provides leadership and support to the core services offered by the State Council program. Before joining CIC, Sherita served as membership coordinator for the Community […]
