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Dr. Patria De Lancer Julnes and Dr. Matthew Woessner

Penn State Harrisburg's de Lancer Julnes, Woessner named CIC Fellows

6/15/16

Patria de Lancer Julnes, director of Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs, and Matthew C. Woessner, 2016-17 University Faculty Senate chair-elect and associate professor of political science and public policy in the School of Public Affairs, have been named Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Fellows. The CIC is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.

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Penn State continues to see benefits from CIC collaboration

3/24/16

Penn State continues to reap the benefits of its ongoing involvement with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the academic counterpart to the Big Ten Athletic Conference. The CIC recently released its annual report.

Penn State to host CIC colloquium on graduate programs in the humanities

10/30/15

Leading faculty members in the humanities from member institutions of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the academic arm of the Big Ten Conference, will convene Nov. 5-7 at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus for a colloquium on graduate programs in the humanities. More than 75 attendees from nearly every Big Ten/CIC public institution will be in attendance to discuss ways they can work together to share best practices, innovations and resources to further enhance their collective prestige within the humanities disciplines.

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Penn State sees collaborative benefits, efficiencies from CIC membership

4/10/15

While the Big Ten Athletic Conference is well known, its less-familiar academic counterpart, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), delivers collaborative, cost-saving benefits for its university members, including Penn State, that rival any on-field competitive success.

Five named CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellows

5/16/14

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program has gained five additional fellows from the Penn State ranks. The CIC is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago. Through its leadership program, participants who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise are aided in further developing their leadership and managerial skills.

Innovative library resource-sharing service wins award

7/6/12

Uborrow, a new service that enables Penn State students, faculty and staff to directly search and request for materials from other major research libraries, has won the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative 2012 Innovation Award. Uborrow simultaneously searches the library catalogs of all Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) members -- the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago -- and the Center for Research Libraries. Together, these collections contain approximately 90 million volumes. Penn State users can place requests within Uborrow that go directly to another library, which speeds up and streamlines the process for obtaining materials outside of Penn State.

Professor named CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow

7/30/09

Chester Ray, professor of medicine, and cellular and molecular physiology, has been selected to be a 2009-10 CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium made up of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago that shares expertise, leverages campus resources, and collaborates on innovative programs. Ray is one of five Penn State faculty to be nominated.

Professor named CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow

7/9/09

Chester A. Ray, professor of medicine and cellular and molecular physiology, has been selected to be a 2009-10 CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium made up of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago that shares expertise, leverages campus resources, and collaborates on innovative programs. Ray is one of five Penn State faculty nominated.

CIC enhances academic excellence opportunities, efficiencies

5/16/08

Penn State is sharing the advantages of being among the top academic institutions in the United States through its membership in the CIC, the acronym for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which is a consortium of 12 nationally renowned public and private research universities. In a report today (May 16), Penn State's Board of Trustees learned that being a member of the CIC brings tremendous benefit to students and faculty at these universities, as the institutions work together on adopting best practices and cost-saving measures, promoting academic collaborations, sharing resources and preparing the next generation of leaders in higher education.