Through their conversations with IDA practitioners across the country, the authors have identified 14 strategies for successfully partnering with postsecondary institutions. These are: (1) Identify the right savers; (2) Match education to the needs of the region or state; (3) Invite educational partners to join your advisory board; (4) Identify…

This paper describes a leadership development model which departs radically from the traditional leader preparation programs. Leadership is perceived not as a complex of skills and characteristics accruing to an individual but as the initiation and maintenance of an ongoing process of self and organizational renewal. The process envisioned…

Significant cooperation among colleges and universities, the subject of more talk than action in the past, is on the upswing. More and more institutions of higher education are working together on problems they can no longer solve alone. The strongest reasons for moving away from total independence are: rising demand and runaway costs; the…

As educational enrollments, resources, and confidence decline, complexity, ambiguity, and dissatisfaction increase. This mixture of growth and decline creates an adverse environment for educational leaders. History shows, however, that adversity can have important uses and profound advantages. Leaders can use adversity to help define new and more…

The kinds of impact a consortium might have on the operations of its member institutions are presented following an overview of the consortium's challenge to institutional autonomy. Ten attitudinal forms of consortium impact challenging autonomy include: (1) the rest are going ahead so do it anyway, (2) infiltration and multiple loyalities of…

Presents, adapted for higher education, the six phases that Greiner indicates business should go through in the change sequence--pressure and arousal, intervention and reorientation, diagnosis and recognition, invention and commitment, experimentation and search, and reinforcement and acceptance. (Author/IRT)

If colleges and universities are to remain vital and if lifelong learning is to mean anything, partnerships between colleges and other institutions associated with learning will be required. The challenge is to link existing university learning with informal learning centers, such as museums, focusing on technological change. (MSE)

Major factors contributing to the crisis in United States education are summarized, including poverty, changes in the American family, child abuse, changes in the ethnic composition of schools, increasing global competition, decline in traditional student performance measures, crisis in mathematics and science, shortages of teachers, shift in the…

This paper describes the progress of the Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal (CoPER), an initiative that increases contact and dialogue between universities and P-12 faculty. The report provides a history of Colorado's foundation for the school-university partnership, which was established in 1986, and discusses a long-range evaluation of…

Focuses on the conflict between nurse educators and nurse care practitioners and how this conflict was resolved between a university health center and school of nursing, suggesting planned change as a means to achieve collaboration. (TA)

Until the early 1970s, New Zealand's teachers were trained in training colleges independent of universities. The article describes a bachelor of education course that combines the features of both and results in a bachelor of education degree. Students take courses at both the University of Auckland and the Auckland College of Education. (SM)

This issue of the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) News is devoted to "Equipped for the Future" (EFF), the organization's long-term collaborative initiative for system reform. The newsletter contains the testimony of people who have been involved in the process over the past 2 years, speaking of the promise they see in EFF. The…

This guide presents the steps necessary to create and pursue a strategic perspective on improving the education system. The emphasis is on generating change in the classroom, and the guide focuses on districtwide school/business initiatives with the goal of basic reform. The guide is organized in six sections that cover the following: (1) the…

Tech prep and school-to-work (STW) programs, partly based on the Southern Regional Education Board's High Schools that Work, are being used to restructure secondary education in Kentucky. Tech prep aims for a better understanding and application of technology, career awareness and planning, skills for a highly educated work force, a more focused…