Aspen/Wye Seminars on Leadership

​In collaboration with the Aspen Institute, CIC offers seminars on leadership for presidents and chief academic officers. The program responds to expressions by both presidents and CAOs of their desire for intellectual renewal and opportunities to engage substantive scholarly issues and ideas in conversation with one another. Participants have the opportunity to read classical and contemporary texts that have bearing on issues of leadership, discuss ideas with colleagues, and consider fundamental issues and values as they relate to the challenges of leadership. The seminars, respectively, take place each year following the annual Presidents Institute and Chief Academic Officers Institute, and have been offered since 2009.

 

 Aspen/Wye Seminar on Leadership for Presidents

 

​With a theme of "Leadership and Liberal Education in a Global Context," the 2012 CIC/Aspen/Wye Seminar for presidents will explore the effects of the global expansion of knowledge on the ways we think about liberal learning. What habits of mind and scope of knowledge do our students need? What are the implications of the globalization of culture for our curricula? How do we encourage students at home and abroad to think about the place of education in a democratic republic, whether established or emerging? This Socratic seminar relies on classic works in the Western, African, and Asian traditions to provide a framework for a collaborative dialogue about the global context of higher education and the roles of presidents as intellectual leaders. Seminar participants will consider together the place of higher education in a democratic republic and elsewhere.

The seminar is led by David Townsend, Director of Wye Programs, Aspen Institute, and Tutor, St. John’s College (MD), and the participation fee is $200.

The 2012 seminar took place on January 7 after the 2012 Presidents Institute in Marco Island, FL.
 

 Aspen/Wye Seminar on Leadership for CAOs

 

​With a theme of "Leadership and Liberal Education in a Global Context," the 2011 CIC/Aspen/Wye Seminar for CAOs explored the global expansion of education and how it both refreshes and challenges our traditional thinking about liberal learning. What habits of mind and scope of knowledge do our students need? What are the implications of the globalization of culture for our curricula? How do we encourage students at home and abroad to think about the place of education in a democratic republic, whether established or emerging? This Socratic seminar relies on classic works from the Western, African, and Asian traditions to provide a framework for a collaborative dialogue about the global context of higher education and the roles of CAOs as intellectual leaders.

The seminar was led by David Townsend, Director of Wye Programs, Aspen Institute, and Tutor, St. John’s College (MD), and the participation fee is $200.

The seminar took place on November 8 after the 2011 CAO Institute in St. Petersburg, FL.

The next seminar will be offered after the 2012 CAO Institute.