CIC Currents
August 22, 2006  volume 5, number 1

Kendra Stokes from Grambling State University demonstrates her research at SROP Conference 2006. She conducted her summer research at Penn State. 

In this issue…

Identity Management Conference Report Available
New CIC Staff on Board
CourseShare Web Tool Goes Live
Recruitment Information Available
Recent Publications Featuring CIC
Upcoming Conferences
Meeting Schedule
Highlight: SROP Conference 2006
CIC MIssion, Vision, Direction

Highlight: SROP Conference 2006 …

On July 21-23, 2006, 583 students and 190 graduate students, faculty and staff gathered on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 20th annual Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) conference.  The weekend event included research roundtable discussions, poster presentations and professional development workshops to enhance student research skills and to nurture graduate school aspirations.  “I came back to campus fired up and really excited about the future” remarked one participant describing the impact of the conference.  Another noted, “You will be surrounded on all sides by scholars and the leaders of tomorrow. You will not return to your home university the same.” The report can be accessed through the SROP webpage.

Identity Management Conference Report Available
The CIC Identity Management Conference, held June 5-6, drew together 117 CIC information technology directors and technical staff, along with registrars, human resources staff, library and ID card staff, for cross-campus dialogue. For more information about the program, including the conference report and PDF files of presentation slides, see the website.

New CIC Staff on Board
We welcome Mark Sandler, Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives, and Laurie Arnold, Interim Director, CIC American Indian Studies Consortium.

Prior to coming to the CIC, Mark Sandler held the position of Collection Development Officer at the University of Michigan Library. Mark earned his MLS degree at the University of Michigan and holds a PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University. A library leader at the statewide, national, and international level, he currently serves as a member of the Depository Library Council for the Government Printing Office, co-publisher of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Director of the Text Creation Partnership, and serves on the advisory boards to Nature Publishing Group, John Wiley and Sons, Thomson Scientific, and Blackwell Publishing.

Brian Hosmer, the current director of the CIC American Indian Studies Consortium, has been awarded a fellowship through the Institute for the Humanities from the University of Illinois at Chicago and will be on academic leave during Academic Year 06/07. Laurie Arnold has been appointed Interim Director of the CIC American Indian Studies Consortium for a nine-month period beginning Sept.1, 2006. She has been serving as the Assistant Director of this program since August 2005.

Visit the staff page for CIC Staff contact information .

CourseShare Web Tool Goes Live
CIC CourseShare enhances student access to select, specialized courses for graduate students. Through partnerships between 2 or more CIC institutions, students can enroll in courses on other campuses and participate in the course via synchronous videoconference and other technologies. To learn about courses being shared this fall and see a list of possible future courses, visit the webpage: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CourseShareWebTool.

Recruitment Information Available
The goal of CIC graduate recruitment collaboration is to increase the success of individual universities in enrolling and graduating students from minority and other underrepresented groups. Recognizing that faculty play a key role in graduate recruitment and retention, the CIC Graduate Deans adopted a set of recommendations in spring 2005 that focused on outreach to faculty and graduate programs across their campuses. A report is available.

Recent Publications Featuring CIC
"Building Publishers' Journal Archives in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation," by Cindy Clennon, Wendy Allen Shelburne and Thomas H. Teper, Serials Review, 32 (2): 87-91 (June 2006).

"The Way to Minority Success in Grad School," by Angela Provitera McGlynn. Hispanic Outlook, August 14, 2006.

"Shared Pain & Payoff: Managing Relationships within a Buying Consortium," University Business, June 2006

Upcoming Conferences
On Sept. 15-16 the Newberry Library will host a conference on "Emerging Research in American Indian Studies." This forum is for CIC faculty to present research before a gathering of colleagues from across the CIC. Faculty and graduate students from non-CIC institutions are welcome to attend.

November 15-16, at Ohio State University: "Strategic Planning for Recruitment and Retention.” This workshop, sponsored by the CIC Graduate Deans, will identify needs and challenges, resources and opportunities for increasing the diversity of graduate student enrollments and degree recipients in the CIC  and produce a set of recommendations to guide CIC implementation of SROP and recruitment activities. For further information contact Yolanda Zepeda.

ABOUT US: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium of twelve universities committed to advancing academic excellence by sharing resources and promoting and coordinating collaborative activities.

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CIC Mission, Vision, Direction
The CIC's Strategic Directions for 2004-2007 encapsulates the mission, vision, areas of focus and operating principles that drive the CIC.  

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August 22, 2006
Karen Singer, Editor