CIEL News and Events

Save the Date:  Fall 2010 CIEL Annual Meeting October 21-23, 2010
Theme:  Sustaining Innovation
New College of Florida will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in the fall of 2010, clearly a milestone in the history of progressive education.  To honor and acknowledge their place in the landscape of higher education, CIEL is pleased that the fall meeting will be held in conjunction with this celebration.  A call for proposals has been sent out to CIEL member institutions and senior academic leaders are being interviewed on their perception of sustainable innovation.
Call for proposals

4/1/10. CIEL has awarded four mini-grants for collaborative projects.  
Awardees and projects

Outdated or Underrated: Exploring Experimenting Colleges and Universities in America $3000
Primary Collaborators: Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann - The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands, and Senior Associate Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University Joy Rosenzweig Kliewer- Associate Vice President for College Advancement Pitzer College, author of The Innovative Campus: Nurturing the Distinctive Learning Environment (Greenwood, 1999)

Grand Canyon Semester $2500
Primary Collaborators: Prescott College, New College at the University of Alabama, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands and the Grand Canyon National Park

Reviewing Senior Honors Projects in Innovative Programs $1000
Primary Collaborators: Steven Weisler, Dean of Enrollment and Assessment, Hampshire College, Massachusetts, Daniel Kiefer, Director of Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Contributing Faculty, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies Associate, Professor of English, University of Redlands, California

Designing a Multi-Institutional Comparative Foodshed Curriculum $3000
Primary Collaborators: Dr. Michael Gilmore, New Century College, Dr. Pramod Parajuli, Prescott College, Dr. Tim Crews, Prescott College (Other participants from CIEL schools will be invited)

CIEL at AAC&U 2010 CIEL members presented at the AAC&U Annual Meeting. Read more. View PowerPoint on the Global Perspective Rubric from the AAC&U 2010 Meeting Presentation

2009-10 Initiatives
CIEL members are developing a virtual language learning project, curricular collaborations, and an environmental perspective rubric. Read more.

CIEL Fall Annual Meeting.  The CIEL annual Fall meeting was September 25- 26, 2009 at Daemen College.  Read the summary.

CIEL Voices & Visions 2009: Changing Times, Changing Minds, the student online journal, is now available.

AAC&U 2009 Seattle, WA.  CIEL members presented in a workshop, concurrent session, and panel.  View presentation materials.

CIEL budding curricular collaborations include the CIEL Border Studies Program and the Foodshed Research and the Education Project. Read more.

CIEL Members accepted to NELL 2009. CIEL member schools are collaborating to bring critical foreign language instruction to their campuses via webcam tutorials.  The idea took shape at CIEL's fall annual meeting under the guidance of Professor Tom Means, Marlboro College.  To further this initiative, three CIEL schools applied and were accepted to take part in a workshop on innovative language instruction - Network for Effective Language Learning (NELL) - sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Marlboro College, Daemen College and Prescott College will be attending the workshop in the summer 2009. For more information, contact - Contact: Tom Means, Marlboro College tmeans@marlboro.edu 

Global Competencies Project 2009. CIEL is currently conducting a study on each member institution's publicly stated commitment to developing Global Competence as an outcome for graduates.  The intention is to define what it means to be globally competent, to explore the level to which each institution has developed learning outcomes and assessment tools to measure the ability of graduates to take a global perspective.

The CIEL Domestic Exchange Form is available. As a benefit of CIEL institutional membership, all regularly enrolled students at CIEL schools are eligible to study at other CIEL member schools for as much as one academic year while paying tuition at their home institutions. Other fees, such as housing and food plans, are determined by the host institution and are paid accordingly. Download Application (Word).