CIC President Richard Ekman spoke at the opening faculty convocation at Georgian Court University (NJ) on September 23, and at the “Faith in the Academy” conference at Messiah College (PA) on September 30.
     CIC bid a fond farewell this fall to Michelle Gilliard, who departed after nine years to join the Performa consulting firm as a higher education consultant and to serve as a consultant for the Austen Group. She also plans to pursue a master’s degree from American University in international service. Gilliard began at CIC in 1995 as assistant director of CAPHE, was promoted to associate director in 1997, to executive director in 1998, and became CIC’s first vice president for planning and evaluation in 2002. She developed and oversaw several major grant programs, helped to integrate CAPHE into CIC, and led the effort to design and develop CIC’s data initiatives. “Michelle leaves a legacy of great achievement at CIC. She has contributed both to CIC as an organization and to the programs of many of our member colleges, especially in strengthening ‘campus/community engagement’ and in enlarging the uses of data for benchmarking and to ‘make the case’ for institutional effectiveness. We wish her well in the next stage of her career,” said Richard Ekman in announcing Gilliard’s departure.

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