Much research is currently addressing how to establish, maintain and govern stakeholder collaboration in higher education. In this article, the concept of shadow organising, i.e. stakeholder imitation of formal educational provision, is introduced to illustrate bottom-up, proactive ways to connect multiple autonomous organisations and stakeholder…

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…

Presented an analysis of various mechanisms of interassociational cooperation, emphasizing the role of the American Council on Education. (Editor/RK)

The Compact for Education is not yet particularly significant either for good or evil. Partly because of time and partly because of unreasonable expectations, the Compact is not yet a going concern. Enthusiasts have overestimated Compact possibilities and opponents have overestimated its dangers, so if the organization has limited rather than…

A case study of the Wisconsin Coordinating Committee for Higher Education was the basis for an examination of the factors contributing to effective coordinating mechanisms between public institutions of higher education and their external supportive world (the public and the state legislative and executive branches). Using questionnaires and…

Changes in the balance of power over higher education require increased leadership by state coordinating boards and their directors. (Editor)

Statement adapted from report to appear later in 1969, entitled "Strengthening Higher Education in Colorado.

The Study Committee on Yale College was established to study all aspects of the college and to make recommendations for the next 20 years of operation. Recommendations include the areas of faculty role, student admissions, student role, the setting of undergraduate life, the appropriate range and limits of choice in learning, the process of…

This report examines the potential for sharing facilities among the institutions of higher education in Connecticut and evaluates the application of the shared facilities concept to a proposed Higher Education Center in the Central Naugatuck Valley Region (CNVR). The history of the Center proposal is outlined and the concept of sharing higher…

The Ministers of 20 countries took part and reached a wide measure of agreement on the 2 chief themes of this conference: policy and planning in postsecondary education, and mobility of students, teachers, and research workers. A third theme of the conference was the activities of international organizations working in the field of education.…