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President to President: In Volume II, published in 2009, SunGard and the Council of Independent Colleges selected CIC member presidents to contribute essays based on their direct experiences with technology. In it, they try to answer a fundamental question: How can we use technology to improve the business of higher education while still honoring its mission? The technologies considered include everything from social media to cloud computing to analytics. In 2005, SunGard Higher Education published a first volume of President to President: Views on Technology in Higher Education, which addressed the strategic role of technology in transforming institutional operations. The entire publication is available for download now on SunGard's website. If you are interested in receiving a hardcopy of the publication, please contact SunGard Higher Education by emailing Sandra.DeCastro@sungardhe.com.
CIC STUDY OF PRESIDENTIAL CAREER PATTERNS: CIC’s report, “A Study of Career Patterns of the Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities,” examines the various career routes and other characteristics of first-time presidents. Using data from the American Council on Education’s American College President Study, CIC analyzed the career pathways; demographic characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, and age; major field of study; and sense of readiness for various presidential responsibilities of first-time American college and university presidents from 1986 to 2006. 2009, 26 pgs. This report is available online only as a PDF. Download the report.
THE FIRST 120 DAYS: The premise of the book is that in the first 120 days, a new college or university president determines whether his or her tenure will be highly successful—or less than flourishing. Those first four months are a harbinger of the president's promise and fate. This book is written by Jerold Panas, an executive partner of one of the nation's premier higher education consulting firms, and is published by Institutions Press. 2008, 232 pgs. Print copies are $30 per copy or $25 for five or more copies. There is a $3 per book shipping and handling fee for all orders. Credit card payment is accepted over the phone by calling CIC at (202) 466-7230.
EVIDENCE
OF LEARNING: This report highlights the experiences of the 33 members of CIC's Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Consortium over the past three years as they used the CLA to measure student learning outcomes. The CLA instrument assesses how the college experience helps students develop such “higher order” cognitive skills as critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem-solving, and effective writing. 2008, 32 pgs. Print copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large orders). Click here for PDF version.(Please note: To view PDF, you will need Adobe Acrobat, available free from the Adobe website.)
BUSINESS
AND THE LIBERAL ARTS: This report highlights the second symposium on business and the liberal
arts held by CIC with support from the James S. Kemper Foundation. The
symposium, held in Chicago on May 2007, brought together faculty members
and administrators from 24 colleges and universities to discuss programmatic
examples of how studies in business and the liberal arts can be successfully
combined, as well as strategies that independent liberal arts colleges
and universities are employing to respond to the declining proportion
of students with liberal arts degrees. 2007, 50 pgs. Print
copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large
orders). Click here for PDF
version.(Please note: To view PDF, you will need
Adobe Acrobat, available free from the Adobe
website.)
MEETING
THE CHALLENGE: This book, prepared as part of the recognition of CIC's 50th anniversary, is comprised of three essays written for general audiences. The first, by historian John Thelin, reviews the evolution of independent colleges and universities in American higher education since the 1950s. The second, by former U.S. News & World Report editor Alvin Sanoff, examines the present contributions and current status of these institutions. The third essay, by Welch Suggs, formerly a journalist at The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a brief history of CIC's half-century of service. 2005, 102 pgs, hardcover. Pricing as follows: $20 for 1 copy; $17 each for 2-10 copies; $15 each for 11 or more copies. Shipping price included.
PRESIDENTIAL
TRANSITIONS IN PRIVATE COLLEGES: This book on college and university presidential transitions is written for presidents, presidential candidates, and trustees. Because the average tenure for college presidents is just under seven years, and there are 4,200 accredited and degree-granting institutions in the United States, some 600 new presidents are chosen each year. About half of all presidencies end within five years. Particularly on small, private liberal arts campuses, presidential transitions generate anxiety and require more activity than almost any other institutional change. The authors intend for this book to provide a roadmap for those who find themselves leading the process of presidential transition. It has been published by CIC in collaboration with the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. 2005, 98 pgs. Pricing as follows: $18 for 1 copy; $16 each for 2-5 copies; $14 each for 6-10 copies; and $12 each for 11 or more copies. Shipping price included. To order copies, contact the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) at council@cccu.org.
POWERFUL
PARTNERSHIPS: This book of essays by independent college and university presidents describes institutional efforts to promote access to and success in college for individuals from low-income families. The range of institutional initiatives includes assistance in preparing prospective students, outreach to increase awareness of opportunities, student financial aid strategies, student advising and support systems, instructional support, and incentives for completion of educational programs. It has been published by the Lumina Foundation for Education in collaboration with CIC as part of Lumina's New Agenda Series of publications. 2004, 126 pgs. Print copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large orders). Click here for PDF version. (In order to view PDF version, you must have Adobe Acrobat which is available for free from the Adobe Web site.)
TEACHING
SCHOLAR PARTNERSHIPS: This paper is intended to be a handbook for independent college and university leaders interested in learning about a fresh approach to cooperation with local elementary, middle, and high schools. It draws from the Teaching Scholar Partnerships (TSP) program, a successful demonstration project that involved ten private institutions working in partnership with their local schools. 2004, 20 pgs. Print copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large orders). Click here for PDF version. (In order to view PDF version, you must have Adobe Acrobat which is available for free from the Adobe Web site.)
REPORT
OF A SYMPOSIUM ON THE LIBERAL ARTS AND BUSINESS This report highlights a national symposium held at Elmhurst College (IL) in November 2003, during which college and university presidents and corporate leaders gathered for an intensive, day-long meeting to explore how the leadership in both the corporate community and at independent higher education institutions can learn from each other and benefit from a better understanding of the relevance of the liberal arts to careers in business. 2004, 28 pgs. Print copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large orders). Click here for PDF version. (In order to view PDF version, you must have Adobe Acrobat which is available for free from the Adobe Web site.)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BENCHMARKS: This booklet is a handy reference guide for presidents who must make decisions about expensive technology purchases, often without an adequate framework for judging the appropriateness of an expenditure. Using recently available data from the Costs of Supporting Technology Services (COSTS) project, Smallen and Leach have highlighted six benchmarks that each institution can immediately begin to use in comparing its own efforts with those of other institutions in its Carnegie Classification. 2004, 31 pgs. Print copies are available free of charge (shipping charges may apply to large orders). Click here for PDF version. (In order to view PDF version, you must have Adobe Acrobat which is available for free from the Adobe Web site.)
BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH COLLEGE CAMPUSES:
This monograph,
Building Partnerships with College Campuses: Community Perspectives,
provides the complete findings from a summit of community partners, along
with their recommendations for improving community/campus engagement activities.
Also available is a copy of the accompanying brochure
that summarizes the key findings from the summit and outlines the major
characteristics of successful community/campus partnerships. Also available: Council of Independent College's newsletters and annual reports from previous years. |
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Note: The 2004 symposium report is also available in print
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