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Sherman, Deborah Witt; Matzo, Marianne LaPorte; Rogers, Susan; McLaughlin, Maureen; Virani, Rose – Journal of Professional Nursing, 2002
Describes one of nine modules in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Curriculum, a train-the-trainer course to prepare nurses for palliative care. Discuses teaching strategies to achieve high-quality care and includes a list of print and web resources. (SK)
Descriptors: Consortia, Course Content, Death, Higher Education
Moy, Debbie – Workforce Investment Quarterly, 1998
The San Francisco Hotels Partnership is a consortium of hotel operators and unions that addresses skill-development needs in the hospitality industry. Participating workers were very satisfied with the opportunity to learn communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills. (SK)
Descriptors: Consortia, Hospitality Occupations, Job Training, Labor Relations
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Ioannides, Demetrios – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Discussion of XML (extensible markup language) and the traditional DTD (document type definition) format focuses on efforts of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML schema working group to develop a schema language to replace DTD that will be capable of defining the set of constraints of any possible data resource. (Contains 14 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Consortia, Data Processing, Databases, Information Technology
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English, Fenwick W. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2000
The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards are ambiguous and empirically insupportable. "Professional consensus" does not equal epistemology. Administrators licensed for practice in the 21st century will resemble secular Jesuits following an ideological agenda that exceeds the science left behind in the pragmatic…
Descriptors: Consortia, Elementary Secondary Education, Ideology, Professional Autonomy
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Remington, R. Roger – Visible Language, 2004
Inspired by the 1980s interest in graphic design history, an initially productive, but difficult to sustain, collaboration among three American universities from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, is the subject of this case study. The ideas behind a much-needed archival consortium, its organization and its difficulties in sustaining collaboration…
Descriptors: Universities, Cooperation, Case Studies, Graphic Arts
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Cutright, Marc – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2006
This article examines the operation and perceived effectiveness of a short-term, nine-community-college consortium, a consortium dedicated to the improvement of student retention and first-year education at each of the colleges in the consortium. The consortium was composed of Alabama community colleges, essentially during calendar year 2002. Its…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Consortia, Program Effectiveness
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Smith, Paige A. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2007
This article examines the current and potential contributions of the University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE) to both K-12 and higher Catholic education. In order to situate the development of alternative teacher preparation programs, a history of Catholic teacher formation is addressed followed by a brief summary of the existing…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools, Consortia, Elementary Secondary Education
Odden, Allan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
This policy brief describes how the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) has approached the objectives of educational equity and adequacy over the past decade and a half, and reveals how their current finance research has begun to explicitly link the level and use of resources with strategies that districts and schools can deploy to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Strategies, Finance Reform, Educational Finance
Werle, James; Fox, Louis – Computers in Libraries, 2007
Formed in 1996, Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced network consortium led by the U.S. research and higher education community. Its goals are to provide leading-edge network capabilities and to facilitate the development, deployment, and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. Starting with 34 universities, Internet2 has grown to more than…
Descriptors: Libraries, Consortia, Public Agencies, Internet
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Sebalj, Darlene; Hudson, Susan; Ryan, Jan; Wight-Boycott, Juliet – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2007
Following a landmark organisational change event within the University of Western Sydney, when the university ceased operating as a federation of four distinct, inter-related elements and merged to become a single entity, four foundation College Managers made a strategic decision to form an alliance. This alliance significantly enhanced the…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Educational Environment, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2010
In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on-years) the County…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Budgets, Enrollment Trends, Educational Facilities Planning
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Parker, Thomas F. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1975
Descriptors: Communications, Consortia, Directories, Library Cooperation
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Hamilton, J. H. – Science, 1974
Several universities and a national laboratory are cooperating to study new extremely unstable radioactive nuclei. Descriptions of several projects, facilities, and activities are given. (RH)
Descriptors: Atomic Theory, Consortia, Nuclear Physics, Physics
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Lyddy, James P. – Planning for Higher Education, 1975
Private colleges and universities are now under pressure from many directions. This compendium of suggestions for finding alternatives to often wasteful competitive relationships explores the potential benefits of statewide planning agencies in building cooperation between the public and private sectors of higher education. (Author)
Descriptors: Consortia, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Public Policy
Wilson, John S. – 1980
An examination of 20 library network terminations reveals five major reasons for termination: lack of adequate funding, absorption by larger networks, loosely structured governance, partial termination of services, and networks programmed for short durations. Two tables present survey data. (RAA)
Descriptors: Consortia, Evaluation, Failure, Library Cooperation
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