2008 CAO Institute Resources

A successful Institute with record-breaking attendance for a
West coast meeting was held on November 1-4. The following slides, speeches,
and materials from presentations are available for viewing and download.
Press coverage is also available below.

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Access without Support is Not Opportunity (Keynote Address)
by Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University, and Senior Scholar of the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education

Keynote Address Speech

Cosmopolitan Education (Plenary Address)
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University

Plenary Address Speech

Rethinking Faculty Work (Plenary Address)
by Ann E. Austin, Professor, Michigan State University, holding the Dr. Mildred B. Erickson Distinguished Chair in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, and coauthor of Rethinking Faculty Work (2007)

Plenary Address Presentation Slides

2008 Chief Academic Officer Award
Remarks by Mark Sargent, provost of Gordon College, upon receiving the 2008 Chief Academic Officer Award.

Award Acceptance Remarks

Graduate Education and the Independent College:
Framing Structures for Effective Program Delivery
by Betty Overton-Adkins, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Spring Arbor University, and Beth Domholdt, Vice President for Academic Affairs, The College
of St. Scholastica

Presentation Slides

Helicopter Parents and the Chief Academic Officer
by Roger N. Casey, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Rollins College, and Stephanie L. Fabritius, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Centre College

Presentation Slides

Developing the Leadership Skills of Department Chairs
by Andrea Chapdelaine, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Albright College, and Mary Ann F. Rehnke, Vice President for Programs, CIC

Presentation Slides
Data Template
Resources

The Future of Nursing Education
by Patricia Benner, Professor and Chair, Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality in Nursing, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco and Director, Carnegie Foundation National Study of Nursing Education; and Beth A. Cunningham, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

Presentation Slides #1
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'Condescending Negativism' and Other Transgressions, by Doug Lederman
Inside Higher Ed, Thursday, November 6, 2008

At a session this week at the Council of Independent Colleges’ Institute for Chief Academic Officers here, Braxton, a professor in Vanderbilt University’s Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program, discussed past research he and colleagues have conducted showing that various sorts of classroom misbehavior by students and faculty members both can do damage to student engagement and/or academic performance.

The Heavy Lifters, by Doug Lederman
Inside Higher Ed, Tuesday, November 4, 2008

With a rumination on the historical genesis and the current state of cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah — in his typically eloquent, even lyrical way — did his level best Monday to get his audience of several hundred provosts of private colleges to think about the big picture. For a few moments, the one-time chemists and literature professors and anthropologists attending the Council of Independent Colleges’ Institute for Chief Academic Officers here listened as the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University led them through the sort of intellectual inquiry, laced with Latin and German and interspersed with pop culture references, that many of them themselves might have given in a classroom in the not-too-distant past.

Additional resources will be posted as they are received.