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)

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)

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)

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…

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…

This paper explores an approach to problem-oriented, interdisciplinary field-based courses devised by university consortia in southern Africa and Denmark. The SLUSE (Sustainable Land Use and Natural Resource Management) model has been applied on six three-week field courses within southern Africa and trained over 200 students. Student groups…

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)

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)

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)

This report includes an essay discussing the rationale behind the promotion and growth of consortia and some of the practical problems of interinstitutional cooperation, and an annotated bibliography of 52 selected references on the topic. Administration, funding, founding purposes, common arrangements, and development processes are discussed with…

This paper describes a leadership development model which departs radically from the traditional leader preparation programs. Leadership is perceived not as a complex of skills and characteristics accruing to an individual but as the initiation and maintenance of an ongoing process of self and organizational renewal. The process envisioned…

The purpose of this technical paper is to outline the procedures used in designing the training programing in educational evaluation and development involving an elaborate collection of data from many sources and a drafting of a tentative plan which was then screened, reviewed, and critiqued by each of the consortium units. The data sources were…

The second technical paper describing the training program in educational evaluation and development contains the description and rationale for the training consortium, including discussions of the value of consortium agencies during planning and training. The following consortium units and their roles are described: University of Colorado, the…

In this third technical paper, the design for a training program for educational developers and evaluators is explicated. Mentioned are 1) the procedures by which the design was generated and 2) the salient characteristics of the several agencies which make up the consortium. The topics considered in this paper include 1) a general description of…