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Welch Suggs College of Education and now H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education and the Department of Psychology at the University of Delaware, was selected as president of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). He worked with CIC President Allen Splete to find an alternative approach to NCATE. Splete secured initial start-up grant support and Murray was able to interest several foundations in the idea of creating a new approach to teacher education, one that shifted the basis for accreditation away from the input-heavy and complicated requirements mandated by NCATE to a focus on presenting evidence that the teacher education program’s graduates knew their subject matter and could actually teach well. In 1997, working with a group of its member college presidents as well as representatives of schools of education at large research universities, CIC formed the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators—those who will teach and lead the nation’s schools. TEAC’s membership represents teacher education programs at a broad range of higher education institutions, from small liberal arts colleges to large research universities. TEAC is now fully recognized as an accrediting body by the U.S. Department of Education, and colleges and universities are selecting TEAC as their accreditor in greater numbers with each passing year. 2004 CIC and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers launch the Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture seminar in Amman, Jordan for CIC faculty members from various fields. CIC also publishes Report of a Symposium on the Liberal Arts and Business. Microsoft Corporation cosponsors with CIC a Presidents Leadership Summit on technology-influenced approaches to learning. 85
From Accreditation to Validation: CIC’s First Half-Century From Accreditation to Validation In a recent interview, Gary Quehl noted that CIC has had five long-serving presidents. Each, he thought, had been the right person for the Council at the right time: Alfred Hill to shepherd CASC through its infancy; Roger Voskuyl to strengthen the ties with the founding membership; Quehl himself to make it a national service organization; Allen Splete to expand the membership and obtain new grant support; and Richard Ekman to widen CIC’s services to people in many leadership roles on campus, increase membership, and raise CIC’s national visibility. Today, CIC is an organization that provides college presidents and other campus leaders with opportunities to learn from one another’s experience. Both CIC and its member institutions are more robust today than they were in 1956. But the challenges of 2006 are no easier than the challenges of 1956, and the organization must continue to evolve in order to meet them effectively. 2005 CIC launches Making the Case, a data-collection and public-relations initiative; CIC/Collegiate Learning Assessment Consortium, a project to define the “value added” by institutions to their students’ learning; and Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission, a program designed to guide current and prospective presidents in reflection about each leader’s sense of calling as it relates to the mission of the college that the president leads or might lead. 86
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