The objectives of the Task Force on Computer Charging as approved by the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario were: (1) to identify alternative methods of costing computing services; (2) to identify alternative methods of pricing computing services; (3) to develop guidelines for the pricing of computing services; (4) to identify…

This document presents a review of the activities of the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario during the academic year 1967-68. During that academic year, great progress was made toward increased interinstitutional cooperation and coordination, specifically in the areas of graduate level planning, shared library resources, common…

This report describes the most significant activities of the Dayton-Miami Valley Consortium during the period of September 1, 1967 - February 28, 1970. The purpose of the Consortium is to promote interinstitutional cooperation and thus improve planning, research, instruction, and administrative services. The activities of the Consortium fell in 2…

Shared facilities and resources expand educational opportunities. (HS)

A task force was formed to facilitate resource sharing of computer services among Ontario universities. The long range objective was to make available to the universities computer services of the highest quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. Control and financing of the system had to be arranged first. Different system structures were considered…

View of the procedures, potentialities, and problems of the Five College Consortium, including Mount Holyoke, Smith, Amherst and Hampshire Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts. (PG)

The Academic Common Market is an interstate agreement among Southern states for sharing academic programs. Participating states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each state is able to make arrangements for its residents who qualify…

The Minnesota-Wisconsin Public Higher Education Reciprocity Agreement 1973-74 was designed to improve post-secondary education advantages of residents of Minnesota and Wisconsin. General provisions concern the nature and purpose of the agreement; duration of the agreement; scope of the agreement-students and institutions; plan for collegiate…

Interinstitutional cooperation ranks among the most vigorous movements in American higher education, and the consortium has been promoted as a means for improving the marginal existence of colleges and for better utilizing the resources of larger institutions. This paper sets the stage for examining the effectiveness of voluntary…

The practice of utilizing faculty resources across institutional lines is not new. At the present time there is an increasing awareness of the opportunity for expanding the interinstitutional utilization of faculty between the historically black campuses and the historically white campuses that are located in proximity to each other. In the…

Cooperative operational planning among autonomous institutions at the Oklahoma Health Center is demonstrating significant capital and operating cost savings as well as qualitative gains. (Author/MLF)

Small school districts and other agencies are turning in increasing numbers to cooperative programs to provide better inservice teacher training; more vocational experiences for students; more qualified counselors and specialists; more audiovisual materials; low-cost teacher recruitment; increased science, foreign language, and mathematics…

The administrative and functional organization of higher education consortia are discussed. The need for cooperation between individual institutions has been established; one lone institution cannot encompass all knowledge generated. The rapid growth of consortia has generated extensive services, funding sources, developmental activities,…

The Atlanta University Center, Inc., a consortium of six institutions (Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Spelman, Atlanta University, and Interdenominational Theological Center) represents the world's largest nucleus of Black private higher education. Its background and the problems faced in dealing with each institution's desire for autonomy are…

Starting with the premise that improved collaboration of elementary and secondary school systems with universities and colleges is essential not only to the improvement of education but to its survival, this document summarizes a series of papers on issues pertinent to school-university collaboration in such areas as basic research and evaluation,…