- Description
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Founded in 1956, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state-based councils, and higher education affiliates that works to support college and university leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance public understanding of independent higher education’s contributions to society.
CIC is the major national organization that focuses on providing services to leaders of independent colleges and universities and state-based councils. CIC offers conferences, seminars, publications, and other programs and services that help institutions improve educational quality, administrative and financial performance, student outcomes, and institutional visibility.
CIC and Riipen have joined forces in a multi-year work-based learning initiative to benefit 25 member institutions. This collaboration will integrate work-based learning opportunities into up to 375 courses led by 125 faculty members and impacting up to 11,250 students.
- Portal website
- https://learn.riipen.com/cic-wbl
Subportals experiences
Data Analytics in Business (F 2025)
Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from Mercy University to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main data analysis-visualization project over the course of a term, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students in this program focus on the collection of, and analysis of, data. They learn how to objectively manipulate data into useable data sets, including visual data analytics to help make data backed decisions for more thorough analysis, and use predictive modelling to ascertain future patterns and trends.
Computational Data Analysis
CISC 540
Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on learners from Mercy University to be your learner-consultants, in a project-based experience. Learners will work on one main project over the experience of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Learners in this program/experience will use practical application of Python libraries for storing, manipulating, and analyzing data. Students will become proficient in popular packages such as IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-Learn, among others. Through hands-on practice and projects, students will learn how to manipulate, transform, and clean data; visualize various types of data; and build basic statistical (Exploratory Data Analysis) or machine learning models (regression, etc.).
Software Engineering / Software Development
CISC 471 + CISC 575
Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on learners from Mercy University to be your learner-consultants, in a project-based experience. Learners will work on one main project over the experience of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Learners in this program/experience : Understand the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Want to gain practical experience in the planning, analysis, design, development, implementation and delivery of high-quality software systems Will learn and apply project management techniques Develop interpersonal and communication skills required for effective team work
Professional Writing in Business and Technical Contexts
COM 320
This experience focuses on equipping learners with the skills to produce high-quality professional writing tailored to specific business and technical contexts. Participants will gain expertise in crafting clear and effective business communications, proposals, formal reports, grant applications, newsletters, blogs, email campaigns, and social media content.