The upcoming Presidents Institute, to be held January 4-7, 2003, at the Registry Resort in Naples, Florida, will focus on “Challenges of the Presidency: Balancing Multiple Priorities.” Several of the key challenges identified during CIC’s strategic planning process last year provide the framework for this year’s Presidents Institute—financing high quality education, understanding changing student populations, and making the case for independent colleges and universities.
    A New Presidents Workshop will be held January 3-4, and a post-Institute workshop on financial management, cosponsored by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, will take place January 7-8.
    This year’s plenary speakers are also recent authors.

• Richard Morrill, chancellor of the University of Richmond, who has written widely on values and ethics in higher education and is the author of Teaching Values in College and Strategic Leadership in Academic Affairs. He is presently writing a book on strategic thinking as a discipline of leadership, the focus of his keynote presentation.
• Neil Howe, an authority on characteristics of different generations in America and co-author of Generations, 13th-Gen, The Fourth Turning, and Millennials Rising. His presentation will focus on characteristics of the emerging millennial generation discussed in his just released Millenials Go To College Handbook.
• Hugh Price, president and CEO of the National Urban League and author of Destination: The American Dream and Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible. He will address the evolving outlook of urban youth in his presentation. All presidents at the Institute will receive a copy of Achievement Matters.
• Rita Bornstein, president of Rollins College, who has written and spoken on issues such as educational equity, philanthropy, and the presidency. She is currently completing a book, based on interviews with college and university presidents, on ways that presidents gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy. This examination of presidential legitimacy will be the subject of her closing presentation.