CIC is launching several new activities this year and is extending its work in current programs.
     Partnering with the National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education, CIC will offer five additional workshops on libraries and information literacy and two New Learning Spaces workshops over the next three years.
     This summer, CIC will launch a three-year program designed to guide current presidents, as well as prospective presidents, in reflecting about each leader’s sense of “calling” as it relates to the mission of the college that the president leads or might lead.
     In addition, CIC is convening a consortium of institutions to share experiences in the use of the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a new approach to assessing the “value-added” of a college education.
     CIC also will extend its work in its ongoing Survey of Historic Campus Architecture and Design, creating the first national architecture and landscape database and website of independent college campuses; and will expand initiatives that use data to benefit institutions, including updating the Key Indicators Tool; and launching a Making the Case website for the effectiveness of independent institutions.