This document presents a study of the joint use of educational facilities among public and private colleges and universities in California. The study was undertaken because it was felt that the necessity for building higher-cost, specialized campus structures might be reduced at some savings to taxpayers if individual institutions could be…

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…

Addresses four basic questions about interinstitutional cooperation as represented by the consortium: What motivates colleges and universities to cooperate with one another? What are the advantages of interinstitutional cooperation? What are the disadvantages? What are the organizational and managerial problems of the consortium? (Author)

The role of the trustee in interinstitutional cooperation is discussed. Benefits include: plant facilities sharing, joint credit unions, library exchange, joint health care facilities, joint counseling, joint apprenticeship programs, cross registration, faculty exchange joint appointments, etc. (Author/LBH)

The authors provide a model for an interinstitutional teacher training program, setting forth basic assumptions and consortium structure. (MJB)

A New Jersey consortium enables land-locked colleges to give their ecology and oceanography students the ocean as a laboratory. (Editor/HS)

Directors of Pennsylvania's eight formal educational consortia recently met in Harrisburg -- the first meeting of its kind in the nation. (Editor)

The growing needs of private institutions is cause to explore the potential of financial development for institutions individually and collectively through an academic consortium. (Author)

Describes a cooperative arrangement among several school districts that permits the hiring of a full-time professional negotiator to handle collective bargaining agreements. (WD)

It has been recommended that health education institutions develop a common market arrangement specifically in health education, based upon a recognition of the increasing alliance between the public and private sectors in both health care and education, and the need to utilize maximally the existing resources. (JD)

This article will address governance in inter-institutional cooperative arrangements in higher education. Although such arrangements exist internationally and in a variety of forms, emphasis will be on Canadian and American arrangements with specific attention to consortia. After a brief review of the forms of arrangements and governance in higher…

Much has been written about the barriers to collaborative work, but little research has been conducted on how to foster collaboration within higher education. This article presents the results of a case study of four campuses that have organized to enable collaboration. The study builds on earlier literature from the corporate sector using a model…

The benefits and drawbacks of cooperative programs among Catholic high schools are described. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (DE)