The Michigan Academic Consortium brought together four universities' nursing schools to address advanced practice issues in nurse-managed primary health care. The collaboration enabled participants to leverage financial resources and take advantage of partnership opportunities. Challenges included multiple management practices, competition, and…

The South and West Washtenaw Consortium is a group of Michigan schools that collaborates in technical areas and operates graphic arts programs in cooperation with local printing businesses. It offers students hands-on experience and exposure to current technologies. (JOW)

Discusses a job fair held by Collegiate Employ-Net, a consortium of colleges and universities in Ohio and Michigan. Explains the benefits of 15 institutions of higher education working together, as well as the weaknesses of the collaboration. The consortium holds an annual job fair and has expanded its services to include additional methods of…

The author describes a prototype consortial structure demonstrating the benefits of college cooperation in Birmingham, Michigan, where five universities jointly offer continuing education courses in a vacant city school building. The arrangement provides many courses to a wide variety of students at low cost. (MF)

Michigan has long advocated local control of education, a philosophy that particularly applies to purchasing school buses. To counter adverse legal actions stemming from noncompetitive bidding practices, the Michigan School Business Officials and the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation collaborated to develop a comprehensive,…

Existing data indicate that there is a serious gap between the statewide needs and demands of Michigan citizens for off-campus instructional services and the present pattern of services being provided by Michigan colleges and universities. It is also apparent that there is a need for more complete information on existing programs and about the…

Like many other states, Michigan has recently instituted minimum technology standards for pre-service teachers. A group of teacher education institutions decided that that standard needed to be a baseline rather than an end goal. Together they formed the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT), whose purpose is…

Focus group interviews were held with approximately 60 of the several hundred high school students who are participating in school-to-work transition programs offered through the Kalamazoo County (Michigan) Education for Employment (EFE) consortium, The 10 focus groups held involved 5-8 students each and were distributed across program types as…

The community service/continuing education (CS/CE) departments at Michigan's 29 community colleges have developed a network of joint programming in order to share and duplicate successful programs across the state. This process has been sponsored through the Michigan Community College Community Services Association (MCCCSA), which was founded in…

A consortium involving California, Maryland, Michigan, and Missouri was established to develop and field test preservice and inservice competency-based staff development modules for career guidance and counseling personnel. A center consisting of a university and the state department of education was established in each of the four states. The…