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From Accreditation to Validation: CIC’s First Half-Century by Welch Suggs Hidden gems. Diamonds in the rough. Unsung heroes. Almost every laudatory phrase uttered about small colleges has two sides to it. No matter the awards won by their students, the lengths of their faculty members’ curricula vitae, or the strengths of their administrative staffs, independent institutions must overcome the stigma of size. Smaller colleges are usually less well-known than land-grant or Ivy League universities, regardless of the quality of education and services they provide. The 50-year history of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is a story of helping member colleges and universities find ways to increase their visibility and providing them with a broad range of initiatives to improve the quality of education and strengthen institutional resources. In its earliest days, what was then the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges (CASC) was dedicated to helping its members raise money and win regional accreditation. Over the past five decades, the organization has been transformed into a dynamic association of independent colleges and universities working together to support institutional leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance private higher education’s contributions to society. 63
From Accreditation to Validation: CIC’s First Half-Century CIC is the only national organization today that focuses solely on providing services directly to independent colleges and universities. To fulfill its mission, CIC provides ideas, resources, and programs that help institutions improve their leadership expertise, educational programs, administrative and financial performance, and institutional visibility. CIC’s growth is testament to the need for such an organization. Since 1990, CIC has nearly doubled its membership, expanding far beyond the small and somewhat isolated colleges that comprised its charter members. Today, CIC institutions are drawn from across the spectrum of independent higher education, including selective liberal arts colleges, medium-sized private universities, religious colleges, historically black colleges, and single-sex institutions. This is the history of an organization and a history of its motivating ideas. The ideas have made the organization distinctive among associations of higher education, giving its members the professional development, resources, and tools they need to show the American public how crucial small colleges will always be in the ongoing challenge to produce an educated citizenry. “The Noise You Hear is Progress” CIC got its start in the years after World War II as an organization of colleges trying to help themselves. It was not an advocacy group, but instead enabled like-minded college leaders to share ways of raising money and gaining regional accreditation. In December 1955, K. Duane Hurley received a letter from the Ford Foundation in his office at Salem College in West Virginia. The foundation had just announced a $210 million initiative to supplement faculty salaries at 630 private colleges, whose enrollments were burgeoning as soldiers returned to school on the GI Bill. Salem College, Hurley was informed, was to be one of the recipients. CASC/CIC Timeline 1955 Frustrated by the inability to attract funding due to his college’s lack of regional accreditation, Duane Hurley, then-president of Salem College (WV), organizes a meeting for leaders from institutions in the same position. 64
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