CIC/New York Times Partnership activities in 2006-2007 include a Presidents Council meeting and Student Newspaper Editors Workshop. The 2006 meeting of the Partnership Presidents Council will be held on Monday, October 9. It has been planned to coincide with CIC’s Foundation Conversation the following day. All members of the CIC/NYT Partnership are invited to attend this event, to be held at the New York Times offices in New York City. Beginning with lunch at noon, participants will meet with several higher education editors and correspondents.

The Partnership’s second Student Newspaper Editors Workshop is scheduled for Monday, February 26, 2007. Student news editors from institutions that are members of the CIC/NYT Partnership will participate in a day-long workshop at the Times offices. In the course of the day they will have opportunities to explore the role of a newspaper in society and to develop their journalistic skills. The 70-plus students who attended the first workshop in October 2005 gave it enthusiastic reviews.  

Under the Partnership’s Speaker Series, during the 2005–2006 academic year, Times editors and correspondents have visited several CIC member campuses, including Cory Dean at Rider University (NJ); John Broder at St. Martin’s University (WA); Ben Brantley at Swarthmore College (PA); Lou Uchitelle at Mount Holyoke College (MA); Jason Deparle at St. John’s College (MD); Joe Treaster at Xavier University (OH); and Janet Robinson at Pace University (NY).

Finally, faculty members from CIC/NYT Partnership institutions with expertise on China will be asked to consult with editors of the New York Times online division to help create content for a new interactive website about China (www.nytimes.com/chinarises). The “China Rises” website is being created to augment a four-part television documentary for the Discovery Channel exploring the monumental changes in present-day China. The broadcast and interactive website are a collaborative effort among New York Times correspondents, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, the German ZDF television network, and other international partners. A team of faculty members from Pace University has already consulted with the Times on the creation of an interactive timeline and is helping to develop content for the college curriculum guide that is part of the website.

All CIC Institutional Member colleges and universities are invited to join the Partnership and become eligible for participation in the 2006-2007 activities. To join, contact Laura Wilcox, CIC vice president for communications, at (202) 466-7230 or lwilcox@cic.nche.edu.