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Allen, Barbara McFadden – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Discusses changes in academic library collection development due to societal attitudes toward higher education; budget and service pressures; copyright, licensing, and intellectual property issues; and preservation considerations. Recommends cooperative collection management, made more possible through network technology, as a means to effectively…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Computer Networks, Consortia
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Dai, Longji; Chen, Ling; Zhang, Hongyang – Information Technology and Libraries, 2000
Describes CALIS (China Academic Library and Information System), a nationwide academic library consortium funded primarily by the Chinese government to serve multiple resource-sharing functions among the participating libraries, including online searching, interlibrary loan, document delivery, and coordinated purchasing and cataloging, by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Consortia, Document Delivery
McDaniel, Lynda – Appalachia, 2000
The Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education (OACHE) is a consortium of 10 public colleges and universities that funds proposals from regional schools for creative initiatives that encourage students toward postsecondary education. College attendance rates from Appalachian Ohio have increased, and the OACHE model is being applied to programs…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Attitude Change, College Attendance
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Adams, Judith – Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 1999
Uses Transfer Consortium data to track the academic path of a transfer cohort from Macomb Community College (MCC) in Michigan to five local four-year institutions. Finds that most transfers from a community college did not earn an associate's degree and that the average ASSET scores of the cohort are higher than the mean score for everyone tested…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, College Transfer Students, Comparative Analysis
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Johnson, Andrew P. – Rural Educator, 2001
Gifted elementary students from four rural school districts in northwest Wisconsin meet weekly in combined classes for instruction. Nontraditional methods are used to identify participants, local artists teach the sessions, expenses and expertise are shared by the districts, and students can interact with like-minded peers from other districts.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Consortia, Creative Writing, Creativity
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Ferdig, Richard E.; Coutts, Jade; DiPietro, Joseph; Lok, Benjamin; Davis, Niki – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss several technology applications that are being used to address current problems or opportunities related to multicultural education. Design/methodology/approach: Five technology applications or technology-related projects are discussed, including a teacher education literacy tool, social networking…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Games, Patients, Educational Technology
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Goderya-Shaikh, Fehmida; Madden, Margaret; Saad, Ismail – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
A positive change in the learning environment in schools is visible through ongoing professional development of teachers and administrators. Monitoring the professional development program and providing support to teachers and administrators to transfer their learnings into the school environment ensures some measures of quality. Quality issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Spohn, Karen; And Others – 1992
The Appalachian Access and Success project aims to examine the factors that underlie the low level of participation in higher education in the Ohio Appalachia region. Surveys were conducted with the 1992 high school seniors, their parents, their school staff, and a group of nontraditional students who entered college after the age of 25. Section I…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, Consortia, Counselor Attitudes
Hollenbeck, Kevin – 1996
Focus group interviews were held with approximately 60 of the several hundred high school students who are participating in school-to-work transition programs offered through the Kalamazoo County (Michigan) Education for Employment (EFE) consortium, The 10 focus groups held involved 5-8 students each and were distributed across program types as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consortia, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
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Lange, Karen – 1997
The Wyoming Academic Libraries Resource Project was initiated to improve cooperation and resource sharing by developing an interconnected information access and delivery system among Wyoming's academic libraries and the State Library. The goal was to formalize communication, cooperation, and resource sharing by developing an Ariel document…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Consortia, Cooperative Programs
Poindexter, Betty S. – 1997
The Rural School Consortium for Educational Leadership and Reform was formed by four rural Indiana school districts in 1991 to coordinate resources for providing staff development that would support reform and restructuring efforts. In the first consortium-sponsored activity, teachers, administrators, support staff, board members, and parents…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consortia, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Halder, John – 1997
This document provides materials developed by Iowa's community colleges in establishing the Iowa Community College Consortium for Study Abroad, as well as materials from a Consortium study abroad program in England. First, a timeline is presented of actions taken between April 1994 and November 1996 in the development of the Consortium, including…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Bergman, Terri – 1997
This document, which is intended for work force and workplace development providers, examines ways of reducing the costs of developing and delivering training to small and midsized companies. Listed first are the following strategies for cutting service costs: split the provider's development costs by delivering the same services to a number of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Consortia, Cost Effectiveness
Stoops, Jack W. – 1992
This handbook reports on the use of consortia-appointed curriculum directors for meeting small, rural school districts' curriculum renewal needs. It is based on interviews with individuals involved with consortia in five Western U.S. case-study sites. Limited resources in rural schools often hinder curriculum-renewal efforts. If several districts…
Descriptors: Consortia, Consultants, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Design
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Dziech, Billie Wright, Ed.; Vilter, William R., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
This issue of a quarterly journal, concerned with community colleges focuses on relations between community colleges and four-year institutions, their perceived differences in status, and approaches to overcoming those differences. The issue contains seven articles beginning with "Tradition and Transformation: Academic Roots and the Community…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Articulation (Education), College Faculty, College Role
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