More than 300 colleges and universities have submitted completed surveys to CIC’s Survey of Historic Architecture and Design on the Independent College and University Campus. The Getty Grant Program awarded CIC a two-year, $151,000 grant last spring to support the project—which will compile, interpret, and evaluate an inventory of historically significant architecture and landscape on the campuses of independent colleges and universities across the country.
     “We’re pleased with this tremendous response, particularly given the lengthy and detailed information required by the survey,” said CIC President Richard Ekman. “The fact that so many colleges and universities want to participate in the project indicates there is a need for this inventory.” Ekman said Phase II of the project, for which additional funding will be sought, will be the production of one or more publications that will examine the historical and architectural significance of these buildings in the context of their communities.
     Barbara S. Christen, CIC Senior Advisor, and an architectural historian formerly serving as a research associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, is heading the project. Last November, she convened a meeting of the project’s advisory committee, consisting of Thomas C. Celli, A.I.A., president, Celli Flynn Brennan; Russell V. Keune, F.A.I.A., former director, international relations, A.I.A.; Randall Mason, director, graduate program in historic preservation, University of Maryland; Therese O’Malley, associate dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; Damie Stillman, professor emeritus, University of Delaware; and John Strassburger, president, Ursinus College (PA). Since then the survey has been developed and distributed to all small and mid-sized independent colleges and universities. For questions or more information about the CIC Survey of Historic Architecture and Design
project, visit the CIC website at www.cic.edu/projects_services/grants/getty.asp or contact Barbara Christen at bchristen@cic.nche.edu.

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