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Roe, Sandra K. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2007
Since 1950, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. has produced what is currently known as the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. This article explores the reasons why it was created and describes the structure of this complex collection of ethnographic works. Over time, this resource has been produced in four different formats: paper slips,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Cross Cultural Studies, Reference Materials, History
Northeast Technical Assistance Center (NETAC), Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006
PEPNet's "Perspectives" is the collaborative newsletter of the four PEPNet regional centers. This newsletter combines each centers individual strengths into a single resource that can be used on a national level. The articles in this issue are: (1) PEPNet Director's Corner: Postsecondary Education Consortium (Marcia Kolvitz); (2) PEPNet…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Outreach Programs, Consortia
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Godfroy-Genin, Anne-Sophie; Pinault, Cloe – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
The main objective of the WomEng European research project was to assess when, how and why women decide to or not to study engineering. This question was addressed through an international cross-comparison by an interdisciplinary research team in seven European countries. This article presents, in the first part, the methodological toolbox…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity
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Rutherford, Desmond; Jackson, Lindsay – School Leadership & Management, 2006
This article explores the key issues or dilemmas secondary schools face when considering collaborating to form a school partnership, in particular a Collegiate Academy. The methodology is an evaluation based on interviews with 15 headteachers and other key staff from three Collegiate Academies in Birmingham during the autumn of 2005. Seven key…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Secondary Schools, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Creager, Cheryl W. – 1990
Developed for members of the Virginia Community Colleges Association (VCCA), this handbook provides information on various aspects of the association's organization, activities, policies, and services. The handbook contains the association's 1988-89 annual report, which highlights activities related to professional development, member…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Colleges, Consortia, Organizational Objectives
Bohning, Gerry – 1983
A project to develop a faculty exchange model for Southeast Florida Educational Consortium (SFEC) institutions is described, and project materials are provided. The following project activities are described: collecting information about existing faculty exchange arrangements; identifying benefits and concerns associated with these arrangements;…
Descriptors: Consortia, Contracts, Geographic Regions, Higher Education
Smith, Harold F. – 1979
Although spiraling costs and reduced budgets require that small academic libraries form clusters to share resources and services, consortia and library networks so far have taken only tentative or shallow steps in this direction. Real and meaningful steps can and must be taken to develop joint acquisition policies, effective and timely…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Consortia, Costs
Powell, J. P. – 1978
This document discusses the work of a consortium of interested producers and users of instructional materials, who worked on a project aimed at producing short films dealing with small group teaching, and developing general guidelines for the production and evaluation of visual stimulus material which would be suitable for staff development…
Descriptors: Consortia, Higher Education, Instructional Films, Instructional Materials
Kelley, Edgar A. – 1974
The Nebraska Opportunities for Volunteers in ACTION (NOVA) was an experiment at the University of Nebraska aimed at welding traditional academic instruction and year-long community service experience into an educational alternative for undergraduates. It was initiated on July 1, 1971 as the first University Year for ACTION (UYA) program in the…
Descriptors: Consortia, Higher Education, Nontraditional Education, Program Evaluation
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California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1976
Regional planning has been proposed as a method for dealing with the various societal problems which cross local boundaries and which can be dealt with better in a wider geographic or regional context. The report of the California Postsecondary Education Commission is based on interviews, review of the existing literature, and visits to regional…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Brock, O. Lee – 1976
In 1967, a group of minority community members and faculty of the various community colleges in the Puget Sound Region banded together in an attempt to make their institutions more responsive to their communities and students. Out of their first meetings emerged a cooperative effort by the involved institutions to improve and expand services and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consortia, Institutional Cooperation, Minority Groups
Texas Univ., Austin. Div. of Extension. – 1973
The project provides for a five-State (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) consortium designed to upgrade competencies of all levels of Adult Basic Education (ABE) personnel. The major points of focus are: establishing bases for higher education; training State Department, university, and local ABE personnel by means of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Consortia, Program Descriptions, Regional Programs
Nashville Univ. Center, TN. – 1974
This report gives a picture of the Nashville University Center (NUC) during the academic year 1973-74. The purpose of the NUC is "to encourage through cooperation operating economies and academic and community programs that cannot be undertaken by individual institutions." To succeed in creating individual programs of cooperation, the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Consortia, Facility Planning, Flexible Facilities
Durzo, Joseph J. – 1975
This report discusses the impact of organizational context on the nature of instructional development programs and on the role of instructional developers. This paper describes the effort of a consortium of higher education institutions, the New Hampshire College and University Council (NHCUC) to establish an instructional development program.…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Fink, Donald D. – 1974
This case study reviews the origins of the University Consortium Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan and reviews the development of joint programs by the extension units of three distant universities and one local one. Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of initiative for the formation of a consortium, early activities and problems, limitations…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Educational Problems
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