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CONFERENCESPresidents and FoundationOfficers To DiscussLiberal Arts College’s Rolein Democratic SocietyMore than 100 presidents will meet witha score of high-level foundation officersin New York City on March 21 forCIC’s annual “Conversation BetweenFoundation Officers and College andUniversity Presidents.” Participants thisyear will explore the theme of “Makingthe Case: The Liberal Arts College’sRole and Responsibilities in aDemocratic Society.”The meeting, to be held again at theTIAA-CREF Conference Center/Wharton Auditorium, will focus on howcolleges can increase and strengthencivic engagement (i.e., community volunteerism,political involvement, andthe acquisition of skills, attitudes, anddispositions that are essential for responsibleparticipation in the democraticprocess) by students and how foundationscan help in that effort.Speakers will include LeslieLenkowsky, chief executive officer ofThe Corporation for National andCommunity Service; Gara LaMarche,vice president and director of U.S. programsfor The Open Society Institute;Eugene Lang, chairman of the E.M.Lang Foundation and founder of ProjectPericles; and Richard Guarasci, presidentof Wagner College and author ofDemocratic Education in the Age ofDifference: Redefining Citizenship inHigher Education.Among the questions to be addressed:What are the appropriate roles of facultymembers, trustees, and administrators ininforming students about civic engagement,and encouraging students to thinkcritically about our democratic institutions?To what extent should foundationsbe concerned with, and support byway of grantmaking, specific contentchanges in a college’s curriculum so as tofoster civic engagement? Will the “virtualcampus” erode civic participation, orenhance it among students? How canfoundations interested in strengtheningcivic engagement use liberal arts collegesand universities as resources? Howcan liberal arts colleges and universitieswork with foundations to strengthenand foster civic engagement? Is there adistinctive role for faith-based collegesand universities in helping to “make thecase” about civic participation in ademocratic society? And is it necessaryfor colleges and universities to incorporatea values and ethics component intotheir educational processes?The core of the program will consistof the exchange of ideas and sharing ofperspectives between presidents andfoundation officers about such issues. Inannouncing the meeting, CIC PresidentRichard Ekman said “the annual meetingbetween presidents and foundationofficers serves a dual purpose: it providesopportunities for the philanthropic communityto learn more about the interestsof CIC colleges and universities, and forcollege and university presidents to hearabout the interests and perspectives ofphilanthropic foundations.”For more information about themeeting, visit the CIC website atwww.cic.edu/conferences_events/foundation/2003.asp.CIC/Gilder Lehrman ProgramFor American HistoriansCIC and the Gilder Lehrman Instituteof American History have announcedthe second annual seminar for CIC historyfaculty members. This year’s seminar,to be held on the ColumbiaUniversity campus in New York City onJune 22-27, will focus on “PoliticalHistory of the Early Republic: NewChallenges, Old Strengths.”Joyce Appleby, professor of historyemerita at the University of California,Los Angeles, will lead the week-longseminar on the recent historiographyand reinterpretation of the history of theearly years of the American Republic.Up to 25 faculty members in Americanhistory and related fields at CIC memberinstitutions will be selected to participatein the seminar.Participants will examine the tumultuousyears of the sovereign states, thestart of constitutional government, theeruption of partisan politics, and theinstitutionalization of a two-party system.But Appleby will take thembeyond the usual American historiographysequence by including the perspectiveof political culture—adding rhetoric,public rites, commemorations, andthe influence of the new print mediumto the staples of elections, party systems,and presidential relations with Congressand the courts.Appleby is the author of Inheritingthe Revolution: The First Generation ofAmericans, which has, since its publicationin 2000, stimulated a wave of reinterpretationof the political history ofthe period spanning the first five presidentialadministrations—fromWashington to Monroe—the formativeperiod of American history. CICPresident Richard Ekman said Appleby’swork has “greatly enriched our appreciationof the play of participation andpower in American politics. We are fortunateto have Joyce leading this uniqueseminar, and we are grateful to theGilder Lehrman Institute for partneringagain with CIC to provide this opportunityfor American historians.”Twenty-five individuals will beselected by competitive nomination;faculty members who wish to participatemust be nominated by the chief academicofficer of the nominee’s institution.The nomination deadline was Friday,March 7, 2003, and selected participantswill be announced Friday, March 28. Formore information, visit the CIC websiteat www.cic.edu/projects_services/other/gilder_lehrman.asp.Independent 6 www.cic.eduWinter/Spring 2003
CONFERENCESWorkshop Explores Effective Uses of Data for CampusesAtwo and one-half day workshophelped campus leaders use nationaldata sets and new web-based tools todevelop comparative analyses that canaid institutional decision-making.CIC and the Association forInstitutional Research (AIR) cosponsoredthe technical assistance workshop,Data and Decisions: A Workshop forIndependent Colleges and Universities,held December 11-13, 2002 inLansdowne, VA. Twenty-five memberinstitutions participated, out of morethan 40 that applied.“Our goal for this workshop was tobring together the diverse individuals oncampus who are responsible for institutionalresearch and planning functions,to look at the data available and howbest to use it, and to provide a fertileground for networking and the sharingof best practices,” said MichelleGilliard, CIC vice president for planningand evaluation. “While a smallproportion of campuses have researchand planning vice presidents or directors,often the work is shared amongenrollment management, informationtechnology, academic affairs, studentaffairs, and finance professionals. Theinteraction of the participants withworkshop staff also afforded CIC theopportunity to access the general dataneeds of the membership,” she said.The 25 campus teams that participatedinclude Agnes Scott College(GA), Alderson-Broaddus College(WV), Augsburg College (MN),Blackburn College (IL), College ofSt. Mary (NE), College Misericordia(PA), College of the Southwest (NM),Duquesne University (PA), HiramCollege (OH), Hollins University(VA), LaGrange College (GA), MarianCollege (WI), Midway College (KY),Montreat College (NC), Mount UnionCollege (OH), Nebraska WesleyanUniversity, Rivier College (NH),Seattle Pacific University (WA), SetonHill University (PA), St. John FisherCollege (NY), Stonehill College (MA),University of Sioux Falls (SD), ViterboUniversity (WI), Westminster College(UT), and Xavier University (OH).Planning for two additional regionalworkshops to be held in September andOctober is underway and will beannounced shortly.CIC Colleges to Participate in Frye Leadership InstituteAdministrators at seven CIC institutionshave been selected to participatein the prestigious 2003 FryeLeadership Institute. Rosie Albritton,director of the college library and associateprofessor, Florida Memorial College;Rachel Applegate, director of the libraryand institutional research, The Collegeof Saint Scholastica (MN); BarryBandstra, professor of religion, HopeCollege (MI); William Beyer, director oftechnology services and CTO, HartwickCollege (NY); Linda SimmonsHenry, director of library services, St.Augustine’s College (NC); NikkiReynolds, director of instruction technologyservices, Hamilton College(NY); and David Weil, associate directorof academic computing and clientservices, Ithaca College (NY), will joinindividuals from 47 other colleges anduniversities for the intensive, two-weekresidential program to be held June 1-13at Emory University (GA).The Frye Leadership Institute focuseson challenges in higher educationleadership, and the qualities needed toconfront strategic change in higher education.It is designed to instill in campusleaders new competencies and perspectiveson technology, economics, publicpolicy, and constituent-relations.“CIC encouraged member presidentsto nominate participants,” said CICPresident Richard Ekman. “Out of 190applications overall, 29 small liberal artscolleges applied and nine were accepted.The number of successful nominationssuggests how competitive CICschools can be in national programsthat are open to all types of institutions,”he said.The institute is sponsored by theCouncil on Library and InformationResources (www.clir.org), EDUCAUSE(www.educause.edu), and EmoryUniversity (www.emory.edu) and is supportedby a grant from the Robert W.Woodruff Foundation. Upcoming EDUCAUSEConferencesAs part of its continuing collaborationwith EDUCAUSE, CIC is creatingopportunities at EDUCAUSE RegionalConferences for information technologyofficers from small and mid-sizedprivate institutions to meet one anotherand to share best practices andideas, while benefiting from the widerange of presenters and vendors atthese events. Upcoming EDUCAUSEConferences include:The EDUCAUSE Midwest RegionalConference, "Strategic Leadership inChallenging Times," March 24-26,Chicago, ILThe EDUCAUSE Southeast RegionalConference, June 18-20, Atlanta, GACUMREC, an EDUCAUSE affiliate,will be holding its Annual ConferenceMay 11-14 in Lake Buena Vista, FL.The CUMREC Annual Conferencefocuses on the uses of administrativecomputing in higher education.More information about each ofthese conferences is available atwww.educause.edu/conference/.Independent 7 www.cic.eduWinter/Spring 2003
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