A report is given of an evaluation of a consortium comprised of two suburban school districts, their respective professional teacher associations, and the University of Washington College of Education. This teacher education program is performance-based and field-oriented. The program, its rationale and development, are described, and actively…

A 10-month program to provide inservice education for vocational education administrators was developed by a consortium of four universities in Indiana and coordinated by a management team. Seventy of 120 persons who were eligible for the program applied, and 30 were selected. The program was presented in four phases: synergistic studies, to…

The program's objective was to train a cadre of research and development specialists with competencies to strengthen and institutionalize organizational assessment and program development within higher education institutions serving large numbers of Chicano and Native American students. The project's two major thrusts were: (1) project management…

The Appalachian Developing Institutions Consortium, consisting of eight two-year institutions in western North Carolina, evaluates its four major programs through internal evaluation teams as well as externally through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The four programs involve student recruitment, comprehensive support services,…

Twenty-eight medical schools formed the Southern Medical School Consortium, later expanded to the Health Sciences Consortium. The sole purpose was to set in motion the Self-Instructional Materials Project to produce self-instructional materials which could be used in several institutions. The project developed self-paced, inexpensive instructional…

This document is a guide to opportunities in liberal arts and sciences at the eleven major midwestern universities involved in the consortium, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The guide is divided into fourteen chapters by school. Within each chapter the schools are discussed in terms of admissions policies, transfer of credit,…

Presented is the final report of a project to develop a consortium of Kentucky training institutions prepared to teach educational personnel for handicapped populations. Brief sections cover the following topics: purposes of the project (such as the establishment of a comprehensive statewide data base for student populations); the procedures and…

The Great Lakes Colleges Association, composed of twelve small liberal arts colleges in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, has been a leader in the integration of women's studies into the curriculum of its member schools. The consortial approach and the women's studies program are described. (MLW)

The careers of George N. Rainsford, president of Kalamazoo College, and John T. Bernhard, president of Western Michigan University, and their commitment to institutional cooperation are described. Government control over institutions, the Kalamazoo Consortium, and private-public cooperation at the local, state, and national levels are discussed.…

Attempts to solve or alleviate the problems faced by minorities in newspaper journalism are offered by: the Berkeley Summer Program for Minority Journalists; the Consortium, a working arrangement between six Black colleges and large graduate institutions; and pressure encouraging the hiring of minorities by large news organizations. (JMF)

Strategies that can be used by the dental education profession to develop instructional and information technologies to support curricular reform are proposed. Focus is on strategies that can be successful in a period of scarce institutional resources. Issues discussed include selecting initiatives, technology standards, intellectual property,…

The Ohio Consortium for Portfolio Development was established in 1988 as an interinstitutional research effort to integrate portfolio development into teacher education. In addition, a sub-phase focused on portfolio use by entry year teachers in a metropolitan school system. The three founding universities, located in southwestern Ohio, are:…

A study was conducted to define a set of alternative organizational models to help overcome current obstacles to Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) membership and set the stage for maximum utilization of the cost efficiencies and program improvement benefits of collaborative curriculum development. The methodology…

With increased cooperation and coordination, it now is appropriate to review major changes that have led to an unprecedented level of interdependency among institutions. The current growth rate of interinstitutional cooperation is approximately 12 percent per year. This is inseparably linked in many respects to increased levels of statutory…

This monograph is the result of a conference held on the subject of governance by consortium. The purpose of the conference was to listen, discuss, and react to four position papers prepared by individuals with differing points of view relative to the shared management of teacher education. This monograph begins with a general discussion of…