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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Council of Independent Colleges Conferences and Events Calendar 2011


CIC's annual events calendar includes premier conferences such as the Presidents Institute and Chief Academic Officers Institute, as well as numerous high-quality workshops and seminars. View the listing by date below.

2011 New Presidents Program
January 3-4: Palm Springs, CA
If you are newly appointed to the president's role, you'll want to
join your colleagues for a day-and-a-half program just for new college leaders. You'll learn the ins and outs of a wide range of presidential issues, all from the perspective of experienced presidents and other experts.

2011 Presidents Institute
January 4-7: Palm Springs, CA
The Presidents Institute is an annually held meeting for presidents of independent colleges and universities that includes a day-and-a-half program for new presidents.

2011 Information Fluency Workshop (Literature)
February 10-12: New Orleans, LA
The Information Fluency in the Disciplines Workshop is intended to help institutions move beyond information literacy in general education to information fluency in humanities majors.

2011 Information Fluency Workshop (History)
March 3-5: San Antonio, TX
The Information Fluency in the Disciplines Workshop is intended to help institutions move beyond information literacy in general education to information fluency in humanities majors.

2011 NetVUE Conference
March 10-12: Indianapolis, IN
Teams of campus leaders are invited to participate in the first biennial national conference of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE).

Conference on Teaching World Languages: Strategies for Success
March 31–April 2: Little Rock, AR
Campus teams will gather to share methods of language instruction that have proven effective at smaller colleges, returning to their campuses with new strategies for improved language instruction.

2011 Department and Division Chair Workshops
http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/workshop/teaching/2011Dept_Div.asp
April 7-9: Milwaukee, WI
May 17-19: Baltimore, MD
May 24-26: Louisville, KY
June 8-10: San Diego, CA
To assist independent colleges and universities in strengthening leadership at the department level, these workshops are offered to experienced, as well as new, department/division chairs. The workshops focus on the distinctive challenges of department leadership in small and mid-sized, private colleges and universities.

2011 CIC/Gilder Lehrman American History Seminar
June 12-15: New Haven, CT
This intensive four-day seminar offers a unique opportunity for faculty members in history and related fields to debate a prominent American history topic with experts and colleagues.

2011 Art History Seminar
June 19-24: Atlanta, GA
The second in a series of new seminars will take place at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA and will focus on themes that appear in Renaissance through 19th century art, with an emphasis on the Italian Renaissance.

2011 College Media Conference
June 30 - July 1: Washington, DC
The 25th anniversary of this annual conference is a major event for campus public relations and communications officers as well as representatives of higher education media. To be held this year in the nation's captial, this event is cohosted by the Council of Independent Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

2011 Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar
July 10-13: Napa, CA
The upcoming seminar series is for prospective presidents and their spouses. It is designed to help prospective presidents, along with their spouses, clarify their own sense of personal vocation, and to weigh it in the context of the missions of the institutions they each might lead in the future.

Additional conferences and events beyond July 2011 will be posted as exact dates are confirmed.
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