The Atlanta University Center (AUC) comprises five historically black colleges and a centralized library. All are separate institutions, each having its own board of directors, president, infrastructure, students, faculty, staff, and traditions. To encourage coordination of effort and resources, the AUC was formed and the first formal cooperative…

The past decade has provided a unique opportunity for the New Hampshire College & University Council (a multipurpose statewide consortium) and Campus Compact for New Hampshire (a state affiliate of a national consortium) to leverage the role of consortia toward building campus cultures of service-learning and civic engagement among member…

The Idaho Consortium for Safe Schools Healthy Students consists of three school districts in rural North Central Idaho and the Nez Perce Tribe's Students for Success Program. Universal prevention programs implemented in the elementary schools include Second Step and the middle schools implemented the Life Skills program. Each of the three…

With the evidence that improved leadership in schools produces increased student learning and with the accountability demands of No Child Left Behind and the Missouri School Improvement Program, it is imperative that school leaders in Missouri be prepared to support student learning at its highest level. Therefore, Missouri has made a substantial…

This article describes the phases that teachers went through in their engagement with innovative teaching strategies as part of a school-based research consortium linked to a university department of education in England. The teachers recorded their experiences and responses in diaries which gave access to their dominant feelings and concerns…

In December 2005, the Ford Foundation awarded Hollins University and the American Association of University Professors $10,000 to participate in the foundation's Difficult Dialogues initiative. The project supported by this grant brings together a consortium of academics, including the author, from three separate institutions in Virginia and the…

This performance report, presented in chart form, outlines progress on five goals of the Massachusetts Workplace Literacy Consortium. Under each goal are a number of objectives, and for each objective the chart describes activities, accomplishments, responsible party, and time frame. Goals are as follows: (1) "Enhance the Productivity and…

The University Consortium Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, allows the development of joint programs by the local college and the extension units of three distant universities. (Author/MLF)

This report summarizes the results of a meeting of representatives from 12 European institutes for curriculum development and educational research. The meeting, held in December 1989 in the Hague, Netherlands, considered the desirability and feasibility of establishing a European consortium of institutes for development and research in education.…

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…

This report examines consortia leadership factors in institutions of higher education (IHE) responding to a New York State Department of Education mandate for performance based teacher education (PBTE). To assess the effect of leadership on program registration, the following questions were investigated: (1) the nature of leadership within and…

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…

The idea of a continuing association of principals assisting principals brought about the formation of the Learning Environments Consortium, discussed in this paper. The principals involved in this association, the paper notes, are committed to developing student-centered programs. They work together in such activities as school site visits,…

This is the final report on the project to design new patterns for training research and development (R&D) personnel in education; the project was conducted by a consortium of educational agencies coordinated throught the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. The report is bound in eight sections: goals and activities…

The West Tennessee Research Develpment Consortium was formed to increase research potential in 2 developing West Tennessee colleges: Freed-Hardeman College and Lane College. The research development program sought to train in research methodology 1 person on each campus and to offer concurrently an in-service training program to 8 faculty members…