Purpose: To highlight that, for higher education (HE) to fulfil its role and provide societies with the required knowledge and competencies that will enable a sustainable future, through research, education and campus operations, it needs to cooperate and promote interdisciplinarity within the sector and with society at large.…

The New England Board of Higher Education "NEBHE" has been deeply interested in how New England higher education institutions can collaborate with one another and with other leaders to confront threats to their economic sustainability. These threats stem partly from shifts in academic content and delivery, student demography and…

European University Association (EUA) has been an active contributor to the Bologna Process since its start 20 years ago. The present position paper welcomes the recent progress in the development of the European Higher Education Area, on the occasion of the Bologna Process Ministerial Conference on 19 November. EUA leaders will join the European…

Offering some relief from a raft of reports about declining education attainment and increasing college costs, Anya Kamenetz celebrates Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) for boosting higher education productivity, access, and affordability ("Change," September/October 2011). According to Kamenetz, PLA is transforming higher education by leveraging…

Beginning in the year 2000, higher education policies all over Europe were transformed by the launching and evolution of the Bologna Process, otherwise known as the process of creating a European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Initially, this process was flexible and informal, which makes the rapidity and scope of the changes it brought about…

This article presents the different opinions of specialists on The Bologna Process. The Bologna Process was brought into being by society's transition to a new stage of development, in which education and knowledge are becoming the decisive engines of progress. With the aim of creating a unified educational space, the Bologna Process was begun in…

This paper focuses on the analysis of student mobility in the EU as a means to stimulate convergence of diverse higher education systems. The argument is based on official texts and other texts of political communication of the European Commission. The following discussion is placed within the current context of the Bologna process and its aim to…

The U.S. Army Reserve offers a nursing program through Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. The collaborative effort has resulted in an innovative program that can serve as a model for other colleges and universities. (JOW)

On 19 September 2003 in Berlin, V.M. Filippov, the minister of education of the Russian Federation, signed an agreement by which their country joined the Bologna Declaration, which calls for the creation of a unified, Europe-wide system of higher education. One explanation for this turn of events in the transformation of education in Russia has to…

To accomplish their mutual objectives, corporations and institutions of higher education should review existing relationships and evolve new ones. There are both barriers and incentives to cooperation, and leadership is needed to act on the variety of options. (SK)

Suggests that genre and time-line college literature courses give way to thematic courses and cooperative courses within other departments. (FL)

Explores graduate students' sociological perspective, explains barriers encountered in developing that perspective, and describes strategies employed to create a participatory educational environment. Concludes that students' alienation decreased as participation increased in sociological community. (Author/DH)

If the education profession is to effectively educate its members, a much more significant relationship must develop between components of the profession. This would include all teachers from kindergarten to higher education; all administrators, scholars, and researchers in teaching and learning; developers of curriculum and instructional…

Regardless of the specific leadership model employed by school of education deans, collaboration is essential to reconcile and harmonize competing needs. Collaboration within the department, with arts and sciences deans, and with unions and agencies outside of the university is discussed. (IAH)

Historically black colleges and universities must pursue collaborative efforts with business and industry in order to prepare students for the workplace. Examples of cooperative efforts include internship/cooperative education programs, business executives teaching on campus, and assessment of corporate education programs for college credit. (SK)