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Welch Suggs “The unstated mission [of CASC/CIC] was to grow and build a national association of private colleges and universities that would have clout, meaning, and status.” —Gary H. Quehl, President, CASC, 1974–1986 president at St. Lawrence University in New York. Splete led the Council of Independent Colleges (as it was now called) for 14 years. CIC’s current president is Richard Ekman, who was selected for the position after Splete’s retirement in 2000. The Big Tent for Small Colleges In the 1970s and 1980s, CIC underwent a crucial transition. As its membership expanded, it became the primary association for helping the presidents and other top leaders of small, independent colleges. Instead of assisting its members to reach a certain goal—accreditation—it began to offer a variety of programs to help them improve institutional operations and academic programs. The earliest years of CASC/CIC were characterized by debates over membership, mission, and goals. One of the key issues was whether the Council ought to be one voice among several for small liberal arts colleges or the sole voice for those institutions. It was an important question, not only to define the Council among the many highereducation associations in Washington but also to shape what the Council’s own goals should be. In his final report to the CASC Board in January 1968, Alfred Hill called on CASC to take up “the voice for the small college” as its “battle cry”: It seems to me this symbolizes the questions we are constantly raising about our image, our relation to other educational associations, the need for small colleges to receive recognition at the national level. Why do other colleges apply for membership in CASC For two reasons—our practical program not supplied elsewhere and the fact that we give them a voice in Washington, New York, Chicago, and other financial centers which they would not otherwise have. Roger Voskuyl, however, was careful to make sure that CASC was committed to helping its existing members: the private colleges, many of them affiliated with religious 1973 CASC publishes The Small College: A Bibliographic Handbook. First Deans’ Institute is held. 1974 Gary H. Quehl succeeds Voskuyl upon his retirement. 69
From Accreditation to Validation: CIC’s First Half-Century CIC Institutional Membership, 1956–2005 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Year 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Number of Institutional Members Source: Council of Independent Colleges bodies that were trying to gain mainstream credibility in American higher education. When Gary Quehl became president of CASC, he focused his mission on making the Council broader and stronger. “I took seriously the stated and unstated mission of CASC/CIC,” Quehl said in a recent interview. The stated mission was to help members all get accredited and to continue to strengthen themselves afterward. “The unstated mission was to grow and build a national association of private colleges and universities that would have clout, meaning, and status.” To those ends, one of Quehl’s most public accomplishments was changing the name of the Council. He and the Council’s staff saw their constituency as being not just their own membership, which had grown to 240 institutions by 1981, but the broad range of four-year independent colleges. In June 1981 the Board voted to change the name to the Council of Independent Colleges. The name change, CIC officers pointed out, did not mean that the association was changing its mission, or even modifying its requirement that members have 2,000 students 1976 CASC develops the National Consulting Network for Liberal-Arts Colleges. Also, H.E.W. grants the first of four $1.5 million awards for the Small College Consortium Institutional Development Project. 70
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