Winter/Spring 2004
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Thirty-eight CIC member presidents will participate in a day-long Presidents Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft and CIC, to be held at Microsoft’s world headquarters in Redmond, Washington on August 5, 2004. The Summit will address the implications of two powerful trends for private colleges and universities. The first trend is the technology-influenced approach to learning and communication of the upcoming “Millennial generation” of students; and the second is the evolving nature of work in a global, knowledge-worker economy. Microsoft’s Diana Oblinger, executive director of higher education, framed these issues in her excellent Presidents Institute plenary presentation earlier this month (view story), and the Summit will allow a more in-depth treatment of these issues. In particular, participants will explore how current and future generations of students can learn the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions they will need to be effective contributors to the communities and organizations in which they will work and live. The Summit will include sessions with some of Microsoft’s most creative thinkers on these topics. The goals for the Summit are two-fold: to identify effective approaches at colleges and universities as well as at Microsoft, which can be broadly shared with CIC member institutions; and to develop relationships at the leadership level between CIC campuses and Microsoft for ongoing sharing of this kind of information. Independent |
