Highlights main points from the Berea College (Kentucky) Handbook on the Student Labor Program 1987/88. (JOW)

Explored perceptions of faculty, administrators, students, and state policy makers concerning barriers and challenges in implementing collaborative degree programs. Created a typology of collaboration based on data analysis: the builder, broker, ballerina, and baker types of collaborative. Found that setting the pace, acknowledging differences,…

Discusses in general terms the approaches necessary for effective dissemination and implementation of an educational program in a country and then relates these approaches to the cooperative relationship between the University of California at Berkeley and the Israel Science Teaching Center's MATAL and PELE Projects. (CS)

Colleges and universities can never be too prepared, whether for physical attacks or data security breaches. A quick data slice of over 7,000 US higher ed institutions, using the Office of Postsecondary Education's Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website and cutting across public and private two- and four-year schools, reveals some…

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College's Small Business Center could aptly be called "the little economic engine that could." It has an innovative approach to rejuvenating the western North Carolina economy that has drawn the attention of everyone from North Carolina's lieutenant governor to the Maltese ambassador to the United…

The programing role of the conference coordinator is analyzed in terms of his input as an adult educator (administrator, change agent, or evaluator); the input will vary due to the different types of program planning situations and to the variety of the coordinator's work. (BP)

The establishment of the Islamic States Broadcasting Organization is discussed. (HB)

This article discusses the advantages of interagency cooperation in recreational programming. (PD)

The real potential of the Council of Educational Facility Planners as a worldwide organization is the willingness of members to share experience and information, and move together towards the development of a philosophy of planning and design that adds to and takes from the experience of individual members, regions, and countries. (Author)

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…

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is composed of representatives of the Universities of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Michigan State University, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Purdue. The major purpose of the Committee is to strengthen higher education through voluntary cooperation, to avoid…

The conference was convened (1) to disseminate information on the development of Stanford's library automation project, and (2) to disseminate information on the several and joint library automation activities of Chicago, Columbia, and Stanford, and (3) to promote heated discussion and active exchange of ideas and problems between librarians,…

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…

In a recent report, the Carnegie Commission found that in the process of expanding educational opportunity, there was great merit in forming consortia or cooperative arrangements among and between colleges and universities in the same geographical location. It is the purpose of this report to examine the potential benefits of interinstitutional…