Internet2, a consortium effort of over 100 universities, is investing in upgrading campus and national computer network platforms for such applications as digital libraries, collaboration environments, tele-medicine, and distance-independent instruction. The project is described, issues the project intends to address are detailed, and ways in…

Initiatives of the Interuniversity Consortium on Poverty Law include the implementation by a group of institutions of innovative projects testing new concepts of scholarship, teaching, and advocacy on behalf of poor or otherwise marginalized persons. The group has demonstrated that legal education can create social change strategies, agents, and…

Describes the Professional and Academic Channel for Europe (EuroPACE) 2000, a network of 44 traditional universities, 1 open university, and 15 partners in industry and society that supports telematics-based education and training. Looks at the network's organization, model of learning, and how it approaches virtual classrooms/campuses and…

A guide to over 1,110 study-abroad programs is presented. The programs are offered during the academic year and are sponsored or co-sponsored by U.S. colleges. Programs may include language study, independent study, or internships. An introductory section covers several topics including language proficiency, types of study-abroad programs,…

A guide to over 1,140 study-abroad programs offered during the academic year and sponsored or co-sponsored by recognized U.S. colleges and universities is presented. Programs may focus on academic subjects and may include language study, independent study, or internships. An introductory section covers several topics, including language…

A guide to help students select possible study-abroad programs is presented. The programs are all sponsored by recognized U.S. colleges and universities during the academic year and all offer regular U.S. academic credit. Most of the programs fall into one of three basic categories: (1) the program combining study in a foreign institution with…

The U.S. Department of Energy sponsored an energy education communications network from August, 1980 through November 1981 for educators and information specialists who deal with K-12 students, vocational training, adult and postsecondary education, and the general public in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. As a final report, this…

To improve preparation of personnel in career education, a project conducted by Oregon's Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education (ICCE) focused on three areas: staff development for college and university faculties; program development for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation; and teacher certification and training program…

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,…

Senate Bill 642, passed by the California legislature in 1973, authorized the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct a pilot program in cooperative education involving no more than five community college districts for a period of up to three years. Pursuant to the law, the Chancellor has included Coast, Hartnell, Pasadena,…

Thirty-eight colleges and universities in southeast Philadelphia are substituting cooperation for competition in the CLEO Project. Focus is on support services for adult students and growing industry liaisons supported by a network of administrators, faculty, and a small professional and volunteer staff. (MSE)

A consortium of 12 4-year, private liberal arts colleges has sought to address the promises and challenges of information technology for undergraduate education. The effort has involved identification of faculty using technology in teaching, then of their individual strategies and techniques, and the establishment of a home page on the World Wide…

If colleges and universities wish to internationalize the curriculum, they must provide faculty with foreign study opportunities and assist them with the design of interdisciplinary collaborations. Two institutions and one consortium that have created promising and unique approaches to this kind of faculty development are profiled. (MSE)

Academic branch libraries located at a distance from the parent institution often face unique challenges in meeting users' needs for scholarly information. This is especially true for distant branch libraries that do not have a specialized function or collection, but who often face the challenge of meeting users' needs for scholarly materials…