Three community colleges and a television station cooperated in the development of a program for broadcasting college courses for credit. (CA)

Phase II of the National Forum on Industrial Arts which includes purpose, method, participants, suggested regional format, and possible impact is discussed. (GR)

Three programs for gifted students are described: a 2-week publication arts project; a summer science enrichment program; and a consortium. Note: Article includes: "Risks and Results: A Summer Program on Publication Arts" (Neil Daniel); "Summer Science Program at Appalachian State University" (John Tashner, Richard Stahl, and Debby Carr);…

Suggests that the most important result of the establishment of tech prep consortia is the increase in articulation agreements between secondary and postsecondary institutions. Discusses the success of programs on Ohio and Texas. (Author/JOW)

Explores some of the applications of the electronic book (e-book) in the modern library. Discusses computing advances that have made electronic book technology viable for publishers and libraries; making products usable in a library environment; and library networks and consortia that share e-book subscriptions. (Author/LRW)

Describes the SUNY Colleges in the North Country Consortium, which comprises nine higher education institutions committed to working collaboratively and in concert with an Army Education Center at Fort Drum. The consortium provides educational services to active-duty military and their spouses. (EV)

Discusses how joint buying through consortial arrangements has had a dramatic impact on the purchasing power of higher education institutions, with cooperative agreements leading to significant savings for the member institutions. (EV)

Presents case study of what actually resulted from talk among a group of career service professionals whose discussions focused on the needs of Master's of Business Administration (M.B.A.) students in a changing economy. Describes New York State M.B.A. Consortium, designed to help graduates move into the job market. (Author/NB)

Describes efforts of the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement (NCCI), which seeks to function as a catalyst for higher education institutions to come together in search of best practices. The organization presents an annual meeting and several workshops a year, hosts a Web site, distributes electronic bulletins, and is starting an…

Discussion of dictionaries as databases focuses on the digitizing of The Oxford English dictionary (OED) and the use of Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language (SGML). Topics include the creation of a consortium to digitize the OED, document structure, relational databases, text forms, sequence, and discourse. (LRW)

Provides an overview of a planned session to describe the work of the World Wide Web Consortium, including technical specifications for HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and over 20 other Web standards that address graphics, multimedia, privacy, metadata, and other technologies. (LRW)