Calendar 2008-2009
2008 Transformation
of the College Library Workshop
March 27-29: Baltimore, MD
This will be the last in a series of highly successful workshops that
began in 2002 to strengthen the contribution of libraries to teaching
and learning. The workshops have focused on the dramatic changes now occurring
in college libraries and have been intended to help small and mid-sized
colleges and universities deal successfully with those changes.
2008 Learning Spaces
and Technology Workshop
April 4-6: Decatur, GA
The Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop is designed to help colleges
and universities plan for effective technology-enhanced learning spaces.
2008 Workshops for
Department and Division Chairs
April 4-5: Portland, OR
May 20-22: Atlanta, GA
May 28-30: Chicago, IL
June 3-5: Albany, NY
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.
2008
CIC/Gilder Lehrman American History Seminar
June 15-18: 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.
2008 Network for
Effective Language Learning (NELL) Summer Meeting
July 7-11, 2008: Tacoma, WA
Institutions participating in the 2008 Network will each send a four-person
team to this summer meeting to develop innovative approaches to foreign
language learning.
2008-2009
Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar
Presidents Program
July 13-16, 2008: Bradford, PA
(Follow-up January 7-8, 2009, Bonita Springs, FL)
This program consists of a series of conversations among college and university
presidents—and their spouses—designed to help each think more
deeply about the significance of mission in the institutions they lead,
their own sense of vocation or calling, and how the connection between
their personal vocation and the institution's mission fosters effective
presidential leadership.
2008
Ancient Greece in the Modern College Classroom Seminar
July 14-18: Washington, DC
Designed primarily for those who have not had formal training
in ancient Greek literature, this five-day seminar will offer faculty
members an opportunity to extend their knowledge of ancient sources and
develop strategies for incorporating them into their courses.
2008 Collegiate
Learning Assessment (CLA) Consortium Summer Meeting
August 3-5, 2008: Washington, DC
This annual meeting of CLA Consortium members has convened each summer
since 2005 in Washington, DC, during which participants evaluate and discuss
key issues of the CLA project.
2008 Data and Decisions
Workshop
October 2-4: Farmington, CT
The workshop assists college and university leaders in making strategic
decisions based on data-targeted information about their own institutions
and up-to-date information about peer institutions.
2008 Foundation Conversation
October 14: New York, NY
The 2008 Foundation Conversation is an annual meeting of dialogue for
corporate and private foundation officers and presidents of liberal arts
colleges and universities.
2008 Chief Academic Officers Institute
November 1-4: Seattle, WA
The Institute for Chief Academic Officers is an annual meeting for CAOs
of independent colleges and universities that includes a workshop for
new CAOs.
Upcoming Event Dates
2009 Presidents Institute
January 4-7: Bonita Springs, FL
2009 Chief Academic Officers Institute
November 7-10: Santa Fe, NM
2010 Presidents Institute
January 4-7: Marco Island, FL
2011 Presidents Institute
January 4-7: Palm Springs, CA
2012 Presidents Institute
January 4-7: Marco Island, FL
Past Conferences and Events
Presidents Institute
CAO Institute
Presidential
Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar
Conversation Between Foundation
Officers
and College and University Presidents
New Presidents
Workshops
Workshop
for Department and Division Chairs
Transformation
of the College Library Workshops
Learning
Spaces and Technology Workshop
Gilder
Lehrman History Seminar
Ancient Greece
Seminar
Islam
and Middle Eastern Culture Seminar
Data
and Decisions - Workshops for Independent
Colleges and Universities
Teaching and
Learning Mentors Institute
Information
Technologies Workshop
Disney Institute
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Conferences
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