This directory includes 115 cooperative arrangements involving 1,398 members. It is designed as a tool that can be used to promote cooperation and association and to assist research. Included in this directory are a list of consortia, program information, consortium directors, and location of consortium members. The cooperative arrangements cited…

A rationale is offered for the use of communication satellites, which would provide a means for transcending the difficulties of distance, for the formation of academic constellations to conduct courses, coordinate cooperative research activities, and conduct academic business. One means of instituting satellite usage would be the formation of…

This inventory-directory provides information on the formal cooperative arrangements of colleges and universities in the State University of New York system. Each entry gives the title of arrangement, names the coordinator or contact person, the beginning date, the participating institutions, and describes the purposes of the arrangement or…

This document presents the results of a feasibility study conducted by the Consortium for Development of Research Potential in Education (CORD) to determine if the 5 institutions in the Detroit area that comprise CORD can pool their resources to provide a coordinated institute for re-educating the conventionally trained teachers in multicultural…

Author feels that independent Catholic schools have been slow to cooperate with their neighbors, and that a breakthrough toward total cooperation has occured in the Consortium described here. (GB)

The university's spiritual and critical functions in relationship to the Church, the campus and secular society were the major interests of delegates to the 10th general assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, held last August in Spain. (Author)

A special purchasing group was formed by the Worcester Consortium for Higher Education with financial advantages. (Editor/HS)

Five interorganizational relationships among higher educational institutions, representing major structural and functional variations were studied intensively using field research procedures to elucidate determinants of successful cooperative activities. (Editor/PG)

The long-term concerns of colleges and universities have been shifting in recent years. Emphasis is increasingly being placed on the exploitation of all higher education resources through regional or State coordination. Explores the implications of the new priorities in higher education. (Author)

This paper discusses the benefits of such networking projects as the Northern Rockies Consortium for Higher Education, which was founded as a non-profit corporation four years ago to encourage faculty development and instructional development in the four state region of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming, and describes the development of this…

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…

Presently there are approximately 70 active formal higher educational consortia in the U. S. along with numerous other instances of voluntary academic cooperation. However, at a time in which cooperative efforts continue to expand, the benefits of these same efforts are being examined and questioned seriously by educators. The Danforth Conference…