News and Events

CIEL Voices & Visions 2008: (Re)Positions: Center and Margin, CIEL's online student journal, is now available.

The 2008 Fall Conference will be held October 3-4, 2008 at Prescott College. This year's theme is Collaborative Curricula, Pedagogy and Scholarly Action: Embracing the Challenges of Globalization. A block of rooms has been reserved at Spring Hill Suites in Prescott, which is in easy walking distance of the Prescott College campus. Conference rate is $99.00 per night, single or double room, for October 2 - 4. Visit To make your reservation, you must call 1-888-466-8440 or 928-776-0988 and ask for the CIEL CONFERENCE Room rate.  Reservations must be made before September 15, 2008. 

Please direct questions about the Fall 2008 CIEL meetings to Karen Spear at spear@lorenet.com.  If you are interested in joining an affinity group – or proposing a new affinity group – please contact Paul Burkhardt at pburkhardt@prescott.edu to be added to the meeting web discussion space.  Also, please be sure to let your CIEL campus coordinator know if you would like to attend.

The Winter 2008 Newsletter is now available.

Two new papers from CIEL members from the Occasional Papers Series are now available.

CIEL was featured in The New York Times on November 4, 2007. Read the article "Outside The Box."

The 2007 CIEL online student journal is now available: CIEL Voices & Visions 2007: Frontiers & Borders. This year's journal brings together the words and images of students from six CIEL member colleges.

The CIEL Mission Statement and Operating Principles were updated in April of 2007.  Download in PDF Word.

The CIEL Performance Report Narrative and Evaluation are available online.

The CIEL Domestic Exchange Form is available. As a benefit of CIEL institutional membership, all regularly enrolled students at CIEL schools are eligible to study at other CIEL member schools for as much as one academic year while paying tuition at their home institutions. Other fees, such as housing and food plans, are determined by the host institution and are paid accordingly. Download Application (Word).