Annual Report 2003-2004 - The Council of Independent Colleges

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P ROMOTING H IGH-QUALITY E DUCATIONWHITWORTH COLLEGE, WA12The Council’s support of practical, sustainable, and costeffectiveways to raise the quality of education is distinctive.CIC’s initiatives and programs help strengthen libraries,and teaching and research in critical fields of study; assistcampus leaders in addressing student learning; provide professionaldevelopment opportunities; and connect campuses withcommunities, among other purposes.STRENGTHENING LIBRARIES, AND TEACHINGAND RESEARCH IN SELECTED CRITICALFIELDS OF STUDYTransformation of the College Library Workshops—Withthe successful 2002 library workshop as the prototype, CIC, incooperation with the Council on Library and InformationResources (CLIR), offered three grant-funded workshops in2004. Workshop locations and dates were: San Francisco(CA) in February; Pittsburgh (PA) in April; andMinneapolis/St. Paul (MN) in June.The workshops focused on the dramatic changes now occurringin college libraries, and addressed such critical issues asadvancing information literacy as an element of liberal education,the role of the library in teaching and learning throughcollaboration between librarians and faculty members, thechanging use and conception of the physical space of thelibrary, the challenges of using technology in improving students’learning, setting institutional priorities for library-relatedcosts when they increasingly exceed standard budget guidelines,implementing institutional change, and assessing theinstitution-wide impact of changes in library services.The workshops were funded by grants from the Williamand Flora Hewlett Foundation; Carl and Lily PforzheimerFoundation; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; andC OUNCIL OF I NDEPENDENT C OLLEGESAssociation of College and Research Libraries. Applicationswere received from 217 institutions, and the followingparticipated:(San Francisco) Alaska Pacific University, AndersonUniversity (IN), Arcadia University (PA), Champlain College(VT), Dordt College (IA), East Texas Baptist University,Elizabethtown College (PA), George Fox University (OR),Goucher College (MD), Jarvis Christian College (TX),Linfield College (OR), Olivet Nazarene University (IL), PaineCollege (GA), Saint Michael’s College (VT), Siena HeightsUniversity (MI), St. Joseph’s College (NY), Texas LutheranUniversity, University of Scranton (PA), University of St.Thomas (TX), and Woodbury University (CA).(Pittsburgh) Aurora University (IL), Cabrini College (PA),Cazenovia College (NY), College of Saint Rose (NY),Gannon University (PA), Geneva College (PA), GeorgianCourt University (NJ), Hampden-Sydney College (VA), HolyFamily University (PA), Immaculata University (PA), IthacaCollege (NY), Merrimack College (MA), Messiah College(PA), North Carolina Wesleyan College, Nyack College(NY), Saint Mary’s College (IN), Seton Hill University (PA),St. Ambrose University (IA), St. Thomas Aquinas College(NY), and University of the Incarnate Word (TX).(Minneapolis) Alma College (MI), Bay Path College (MA),Belmont Abbey College (NC), Bethel University (MN),California Lutheran University, Cornell College (IA),Dominican University (IL), Drake University (IA), EmersonCollege (MA), Judson College (IL), Loras College (IA),Mitchell College (CT), Morningside College (IA), MountMarty College (SD), Saint Anselm College (NH), SaintMary-of-the-Woods College (IN), Southern New HampshireUniversity, St. Thomas University (FL), and ViterboUniversity (WI).
P ROMOTING H IGH-QUALITY E DUCATIONSeminars in American History—CIC and the GilderLehrman Institute of American History co-sponsored a thirdannual seminar for CIC faculty members in history and relatedfields. The 2004 seminar, held at Columbia University inNew York City in August, focused on “Slavery: Scholarshipand Public History.” The seminar directors were David Blight,Professor of History at Yale University, and James OliverHorton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studiesand History at George Washington University.Participants examined selections from a century’s worth ofwritings by historians who have attempted to explain the historyof American slavery and its role in the formation of thenation’s political, economic, and social structure. Changinginterpretations reflect the state of American historicalscholarship and the racial dynamics of the nation. Theseminar focused on American slavery scholarship, and thedifficulty of public presentation of this most important aspectof American history as it confronts the nation’s memory andsense of heritage.Blight is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War inAmerican Memory, for which he won the 2001 FrederickDouglass Prize and the 2002 Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes.Horton is director of the African American CommunitiesProject at the National Museum of American History, a memberof the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and presidentelectof the Organization of American Historians. He isauthor of Free People of Color: Inside the African AmericanCommunity.Thirty-one faculty members were selected by competitivenomination; participants came from Albion College (MI),Aurora University (IL), Bay Path College (MA), BereaCollege (KY), California Lutheran University,Charleston Southern University (SC), Cornell College(IA), Florida Memorial College, Florida SouthernCollege, Gettysburg College (PA), Gustavus AdolphusCollege (MN), Ithaca College (NY), Jamestown College(ND), Lourdes College (OH), Lynchburg College (VA),Moravian College (PA), Nazareth College (NY), OhioValley College (WV), Otterbein College (OH), SaintAnselm College (NH), Saint Xavier University (IL),Southeastern College (FL), Southern New HampshireUniversity, St. Edward’s University (TX), The Collegeof Wooster (OH), University of Great Falls (MT),University of Indianapolis (IN), University of SaintMary (KS), University of the Incarnate Word (TX),Wagner College (NY), and Waynesburg College (PA).Heuer Awards for Outstanding Achievement inUndergraduate Science Education—Two independentcolleges were selected in 2004 to receive the Council ofIndependent Colleges fourth annual Heuer Awards forOutstanding Achievement in Undergraduate ScienceEducation. Allegheny College (PA) and ColumbiaCollege Chicago (IL) were chosen out of 38 nominationsfor demonstrating noteworthy recent achievementin undergraduate science education.The CIC/Heuer award program, funded by The RussellPearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Foundation, buildson the documented achievements of independent collegesand universities in undergraduate science education.Each institution received a $10,000 award that maybe used for further enhancement of its science programs.WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, UT2003-2004 ANNUAL R EPORT 13
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