1. Elizabeth McCormack (left) accepted CIC’s Allen P. Splete Award for Outstanding Service on behalf of herself and her husband, Jerome I. Aron, from CIC Board Chair Mary Pat Seurkamp. The couple were honored for their “exceptional and unselfish contributions to independent higher education and to American philanthropy."
	2. Stanley M. Howe and Helen Jensen Howe were presented with the CIC Award for Philanthropy for being “true champions of private higher education in America and for making a significant impact on private higher education in their home state of Iowa.”
	3. Scholarship America President William C. Nelsen accepted CIC’s Award for Philanthropy on behalf of Scholarship America, from CIC President Richard Ekman. Founded in 1961 as Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America, it is the nation’s largest private sector scholarship and educational support organization.
	4. Panelists Philip W. Semas (center), editor in chief of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rebecca Trounson, higher education reporter for the Los Angeles Times, provided guidance on how they determine which issues to cover, what current and future topics they are interested in covering, and how to pitch a story. Goucher College (MD) President Sanford Ungar moderated the discussion.
	5. Presidents who are retiring from CIC’s Board of Directors were honored during the Presidents Institute banquet: Dorothy G. Blaney, Cedar Crest College (PA); Scott Miller, Wesley College (DE); Anne L. Deming, Notre Dame College (OH); and Delbert Baker, Oakwood College (AL). Retiring Directors not pictured are Margaret McKenna, Lesley University (MA), and John F. Budd, CEO, Omega Group.
	6. Wilson College (PA) President Lorna Duphiney Edmundson and St. Edward’s University (TX) President George Martin shared successful educational strategies for educating low-income students during a Presidents Institute session.
	7. Rick Brockland, Sodexho Campus Services, and Dorothy Cowser Yancy (center), Johnson C. Smith University (NC), chat with Glenda Price, Marygrove College (MI), who assisted with the presentation of awards during the banquet.
	8. Richard and Jani Flynn (left), Springfield College (MA); Antoine and Carol Garibaldi (center), Gannon University (PA); and Paul LeBlanc, Southern New Hampshire University, pause for a photo before heading into the banquet.

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