Building Community Serving Our Members
CIC strengthens independent colleges and universities and supports campus leaders on current and pressing priorities in higher education.
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2025 Presidents Institute
The Presidents Institute is an annually held meeting for presidents of independent colleges and universities that includes programs for new presidents and for spouses.Register Now -
2024 Institute for Chief Academic Officers Resources
Resources from the 2024 Institute for Chief Academic Officers are now available online.Read More -
Tuition Exchange Program (CIC-TEP)
CIC–TEP is a network of CIC member colleges and universities that are willing to accept as students, tuition-free, full-time employees and their family members. Nearly 440 colleges and universities from 47 states and seven countries are participating.Read More -
2025 New Presidents Program
A leadership development program for college presidents in their first or second year and their spouses or partners that addresses the practical needs and strategic questions for success as leaders of independent colleges and universities.Register Now -
Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap
Four reports provide a roadmap for college leaders to succeed in upholding their institutional mission in today’s social, civic, and political landscape.Read More -
CIC Member Directory
Explore a map and search a listing of CIC, TEP, and NetVUE members.Read More
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ABOUT CIC
What is an Independent College?
Simply defined, “independent” institutions are governed by boards of private citizens and operate independent of government control. They are nonprofit organizations supported primarily by tuition revenue, philanthropic gifts, and grants from foundations.
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Belong: An Inclusive Learning Community
Belong is a network of CIC member colleges and universities dedicated to making their campuses more welcoming and inclusive. Designed in partnership with the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), Belong offers a suite of professional development resources for faculty and staff to support student belonging in class and campus-wide.
Belong works in concert with your campus’s distinctive mission and values, equipping faculty and staff with evidence-based skills and knowledge that increase student belonging and advance campus retention efforts.
FAST FACTS
CIC Shows Strength in Numbers
Insights, News, & Research
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Council of Independent Colleges to Offer Interactive Tools to Track Enrollment and Financial Data
A new design will provide more interactive and user-friendly engagement with this valuable member resource, which CIC started offering as standard in CIC membership in 2004. These annual reports provide customized benchmarking of an institution’s performance based on various metrics, such as student enrollment and financial performance.Read More -
Council of Independent Colleges Receives $19.9 Million from Lilly Endowment to Increase Grants to NetVUE Member Institutions
The $19,980,000 grant, the largest single gift in CIC’s history, builds upon the success of CIC’s development of its Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE).Read More -
Understanding the Landscape of Graduate Programs: A Study of Independent Colleges and Universities
Institutional Members of the Council of Independent Colleges are increasingly offering graduate programs. A decade ago, in 2013–14, only 45 percent were classified as Carnegie Masters or Doctoral. In 2023–24, 55 percent fall in these categories. To better understand how independent colleges build, support, and sustain graduate programs and students, CIC surveyed presidents and chief […]Read More -
Now Available: Recorded Sessions from the CIC Conference on the Legacies of Slavery
CIC’s multiyear Legacies of American Slavery: Reckoning with the Past initiative culminated with a national conference on September 19–21, 2024, in Memphis, Tennessee. Three recorded sessions from the conference are now available for streaming: “The Unsteady Legacies of American Slavery” (featuring Pulitzer–prize winning historian David Blight and New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie), “The Work […]Read More