In the past 15 years, there has been a great upsurge in interinstitutional cooperation, a momentum which will probably increase in the next 15 years. In order to find answers to some basic questions affecting consortia, the Midwest Association for Higher Education (MAHE)-a pseudonym-was studied. This paper deals primarily with the question: what…

In an attempt to formulate hypotheses and administrative guidelines for voluntary consortia in higher education, a heuristic framework was devised through which behavioral patterns of consortia member organizations and their representatives could be ascertained. The rationale, the framework, and the methodology of the study are first discussed.…

This document outlines a plan (CODE) for the comprehensive development of the Florida State University System. Part I discusses the nature and purpose of CODE, earlier planning efforts, the Board of Regents, and the Office of the Chancellor. Part 2 presents the basic components of CODE, the objectives and educational goals, PPBS, and the planning…

In the Great Lakes Cutover Region, comprising the upper third of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, there are 13 state colleges and universities that have evolved from normal schools into multi-purpose institutions with booming undergraduate enrollments and rapidly growing graduate programs. These institutions are situated at a great distance…

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is composed of representatives of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago working together to strengthen higher education through voluntary cooperation of their respective member institutions. This report outlines and describes the various activities undertaken in 1968-69 by the…

This document presents a description and preliminary evaluation of a pilot project involving Gorham State College and the Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women in a cooperative program designed to enlarge student teacher opportunities for working with disadvantaged students and to explore potentialities of Job Corps trainees in higher…

The creation of the Committee of Presidents in 1962 was a significant step toward systematic cooperation among Ontario universities. This cooperation, which has consistently increased, was the response to growing dependence on public funds, and to increased government interest in how funds were spent. The universities have cooperated in…

The San Francisco Consortium, composed of the University of California Medical Center, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State College, Golden Gate College, and City College of San Francisco, is based on geographic proximity rather than on similarity of goals among member institutions. The author of this study has made several…

This document provides a proven framework in which successful foreign study programs have been mounted at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Emphasis is placed on program objectives, program ingredients, admissions, overseas academic evaluation, program orientations, expenses, pre-departure information, role of study abroad advisory…

This report delineates areas, patterns, effects, and purposes of international university cooperation. Areas of international university cooperation encompass teaching and study, research, university administration and organization. Patterns of cooperation include the basic principles of governing agreements, methods for full university…

Three aspects of university administration are discussed: internal university structures and their interrelations, university responsibilities, and university relations with other institutions. Paper covering the university administrative systems of the United Kindgom, France, United States, Federal Republic of Germany, Latin American, and the…

This document describes the Central Minnesota Teacher Education Council (CMTEC), a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose purpose is to promote the improvement of teacher education with emphasis upon student teaching internships, and research. Membership of the Council is made up of representatives from each of the public school districts that…

This memorandum of agreement for an academic common market is drawn up under the general framework of operation of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The agreement is designed to establish an academic common market for sharing specified academic programs through an exchange of students across state borders. The Common Market will assist…

This document is the 1971-72 annual report of the Special Committee for Development of Communications with Negro Colleges and Universities (SCDCNCU). This report conveys, in explicit terms the nature and the implications of the SCDCNCU approach to human and social development. An overview of the year's progress, persons' contacted throughout the…

The objective of this project, now in its final stages, was to determine the benefits to science education, at various academic levels, from the exchange of science films between the United States and Japan. In the three years of the project (1967-70), the United States sent 265 films and received 180 films. The films were evaluated by each of the…