Two awards worth up to $50,000 each are the centerpieces of CIC's new American Graduate Fellowships program. This initiative, launched in spring 2006, aims to promote doctoral study in the humanities by the most talented graduates of smaller, private liberal arts colleges and universities. Renewable for a second year, the fellowships will be awarded annually for a period of five years. The fellowships will directly support a few stellar graduates of small colleges, but also have two larger purposes: to encourage the best students at CIC colleges to apply for PhD work in the humanities at top-tier private research institutions; and to raise awareness at leading graduate schools that small colleges remain a rich source of future doctoral students.

Chief student affairs officers will join chief academic officers this fall at CIC’s 34th annual Institute for Chief Academic Officers, to explore effective ways to collaborate to ensure student persistence and achievement. The meeting will be held November 4–7 in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

A $257,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support four additional Transformation of the College Library Workshops and two Learning Spaces and Technology Workshops over the next two years.