Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

“The Form 990 was provided to all members of the managing committee for their review and approval prior to submission.”

“Disclosure of any conflicts of interest are made to supervisors and to the managing committee for review and resolution.”

“Salaries for all employees are determined annually by the managing committee. Salaries for the Professor in Charge and all instructional staff are set at competetive rates based on salaries paid for similar programs by other colleges and universities. Salaries for support staff are determined based on years of service and responsibilities assumed by the individual staff member. All salaries are approved during the annual budget process by the managing committee.”

“ICCS WILL MAKE THEIR GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS and form 990 ARE also MADE AVAILABLE ON GUIDESTAR.ORG.”

“DUKE UNIVERSITY STUDY ABROAD OFFICE MANAGES THE APPLICATION, enrollment, grades, tuition and all other related ACTIVITIES for the students OF ICCS, IN EXCHANGE FOR AN ANNUAL MANAGEMENT FEE.”

“Founded in 1965, iccs provides the premier program in rome for american undergraduates studying ancient history, art history, archaeology, greek, and latin. Over 100 top colleges and universities, public and private, form a consortium that owns iccs. Those institutions, through faculty representatives they appoint, elect from their number a managing committee of 5 faculty who serve for 5 years each as a governing board. This board elects a chair for a term of 5 years. This board serves as the governors of the tennessee-based 501(c)(3) corporation that administers the academic program. The managing committee is assisted in administrative matters with services contractually rendered by duke university. The mission of the iccs is to bring academically meritable students into contact with the roman and greek antiquities. In its current quarters in rome, the iccs can admit an ideal of about 36 students in each semester. In pursuit of this enrollment number, many scholarships are awarded on the basis of demonstrated student need. In the most recent semester, spring 2017, 100% of student need was met. Each semester at iccs entails fifteen weeks of instruction, for which academic credit is granted through duke university. The heart of the program of study, mandatory for all students, is a two-credit comprehensive course, the ancient city. This course is carried out through extensive on-site and classroom instruction. The on-site component, at archaeological sites and museums, integrates the topography of ancient rome with its social history, literature, and culture. Ancient greek culture is also extensively studied through visits to magna graecia and sicily. Other classes offered at iccs are intermediate and advanced ancient greek and latin, as well as beginning italian and art history of the renaissance and baroque periods in rome. Iccs students have been eligible, on a competitive basis, to participate in a research experience for undergraduates in the archaeological study collection of the american academy in rome since 2011. The suzanne deal booth residency prgram brings a prominent us professor to the iccs to work with the students once each academic year. Past booth residents are: richard talbert (unc chapel hill), erich gruen (berkeley), susan stevens (randolph college), anthony corbeill (uk lawrence), and jennifer trimble (stanford). The 2017 booth resident will be judith hallett (um college park). Predoctoral fellows in classical fields of the american academy in rome are brought to the iccs each year to meet iccs students and deliver a talk on their research in the iccs-aar charles l. Babcock lecture series. Iccs faculty consists of an andrew w. Mellon professor in charge, two professors at the associate or assistant level, and a resident instructor who is a graduate student. All are hired for the special expertise they can contribute to the program, and all are hired in open searches carried out in full compliance with us antidiscrimination law. Iccs alumni regularly become leaders in art, literature, music, business, law, medicine, and academia. For example, over 75 fellows of the american academy in rome have been iccs students, faculty members, or both.”

“There was a currency loss of $(15,088) recorded due to the revaluation of accounts held in Euro during the year ended June 30, 2016.”

“Salaries for the organization are paid in both Italy and the United States. Italian employees are paid in Italy and all tax filings are done with the Italian government as these employees are all Italian citizens, that work exclusively in italy. There are also professors working in Italy as visiting instructors that are paid a salary. These professors may be United States citizens or citizens of other countries. The professors may be paid directly by the organization through payroll reported on the W-2's and W-3's by the Center to the US Treasury or through a reimbursment for wages and benefits to their home institutions in the United States, who then are responsible for the wage reporting and payment of taxes for these employees.”