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The Chicago Humanities Festival Explores Technology from Stone Tools to iPads

Oct 17, 2011, 10:06 AM

In case there was ever any doubt, this year's Chicago Humanities Festival confirms Chicago as the center of the universe---at least the universe of great thinkers, doers, and performers. With a theme of "technology" and presenters such as hip hop...
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CIC Faculty Awarded NEH 2011 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

Sep 28, 2011, 11:41 AM

It's official--Digital Humanities is a hot topic in the academy. With a number of articles on topic this month in both the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education, Digital Humanities is having its moment. At the center of...
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Three University of Michigan Faculty Get the Big Phone Call

Sep 20, 2011, 10:32 AM

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011 and faculty from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor were a significant presence in the list. Tiya Miles, Professor, Department of History; Melanie...
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign names 2011-2012 CIC Academic Leadership Fellows

Aug 25, 2011, 11:52 AM

Five faculty members have been named fellows of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program. According to Vice Provost, Barb Wilson, the program will allow the fellows insight into how member institutions are tackling common problems, and the "fellows...
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Purdue Announces 2011-12 CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellows

Jul 18, 2011, 13:58 PM

Purdue's Office of the Provost has selected six faculty members to participate in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program during the 2011-12 academic year. The new ALP Fellows are profiled in this Purdue Today article. Purdue has named...
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Call for Applications: Summer Faculty Workshop on Race and Ethnicity

Nov 11, 2010, 13:11 PM

Michigan State University, together with the CIC, is sponsoring a summer workshop for mid-career faculty members at CIC institutions engaged in research on race and ethnicity in the United States. The MSU-CIC Mid-Career Faculty Workshop on Race and Ethnicity: Making...
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Faculty: Learn About CourseShare During Nov. 10 Webinar

Nov 4, 2010, 07:03 AM

The CIC will present two webinars for faculty interested in learning more about CourseShare, the CIC's distance learning initiative, on Wednesday Nov. 10. To provide more opportunities for faculty to join us, the webinars will take place at either 9:00am...
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Doctoral Directory Features Promising Academic Job Candidates

Jan 12, 2010, 14:29 PM

The CIC Doctoral Directory now includes information on 239 candidates and degree recipients from CIC universities who are members of groups underrepresented in higher education. Nearly one quarter (23 percent) of the listings represent science and engineering fields, and another 23...
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Asian American Studies graduate student conference featured in Indiana Daily Student

Oct 2, 2009, 13:09 PM

The Sept. 27 edition of the Indiana Daily Student featured coverage of the inaugural Asian American Studies graduate student conference, held Sept. 25-26 in Bloomington, Ind. The conference brought together more than 40 graduate students and faculty from across the...
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CIC kinesiology faculty visit China

Nov 5, 2008, 13:57 PM

A delegation of kinesiology professors, including several from CIC members, recently visited China to discuss collaborations on cross-cultural research and other ways to strengthen ties between institutions, reports the Minnesota Daily (10/8)....
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