Fall 2003

2003 Chief Academic Officers Institute

Overview: CAOs Meet in Savannah for 31st Annual Meeting

CAO Leadership Awards
Key Speakers
Budget and Fiscal Workshops
Breneman Offers CAOs Steps for Effective Management
Chabotar Outlines Strategic Budgeting Process
Strengthening Academic Quality Can Turn Institutions Around,
     Panelists Say
Five Essentials Will Sustain a College Financially and Academically,
     Say Panelists
New Student Learning Outcomes Survey Focuses on Liberal Arts
Updates on CIC Projects

Conferences
Elmhurst Hosts CIC Liberal Arts and Business Symposium
2004 Presidents Institute to Focus on Leadership in a Changing World
CIC Offers Seminar on Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture
Advantages of Teaching Careers at Small Colleges is Focus of CIC Seminar
Using Data for Decision-making on Campus
CIC Offers Faculty Training Workshop
College Teams Apply for 2004 Library Workshops
2004 Department Chairs Workshops Being Planned

From the President's Desk
As Others See Us

Project News
Educating At-Risk Students
CIC Announces Winners of First-Year Programs Initiative
Data Initiative to Document Case for CIC Colleges

Resources
Recent Books of Note

Higher Ed News
Two CIC Faculty Members Named Professors of the Year
Learned Societies Focus on Liberal Arts Colleges

Campus Update
A Compendium of Relevant News from CIC Member Institutions

CIC News & Information
Two-year Colleges to Join CIC
Staff News and Notes
Staff Spotlight - Maxine Morris

Independent
The Council of Independent Colleges
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 320 • Washington, DC 20036
tel: (202) 466-7230 • Fax: (202) 466-7238 • e-mail: cic@cic.nche.edu • www.cic.edu

Last updated: December 2003
Copyright © 2002 The Council of Independent Colleges

Click here to view this issue of the Independent Newsletter.
This is a PDF file. In order to view, you must have Adobe Acrobat which is available for free from the Adobe Web site.