Describes cooperation between the six tribal colleges comprising the North Dakota Intertribal College Partnership and their plans for developing a new four-year college operating as separate units on each of the two-year campuses. Addresses planning concerns related to administration, curriculum, support services, outcomes, and teaching and…

Discusses the development, replication, and outcomes of a community college-based program to train and place older adults in child care jobs. Describes the collaboration between community colleges and Generations Together, an intergenerational program at the University of Pittsburgh. Identifies conditions favoring program expansion and success.…

Discusses Illinois Valley Community College's selection as 1 of 48 community colleges operating technology transfer and demonstration centers for computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) in the IBM-CIM in Higher Education Alliance. Reviews local industry involvement, curriculum development, faculty training, deliverables, and the prognosis for the…

Examines the implications of higher education's increased internationalization. Discusses student exchanges, foreign language study, curricular collaboration, interuniversity information networks, and joint research and publishing projects as examples of internationalized education. Underscores the roles of international organizations and…

Discusses the rationale and purposes of school-university collaboration and describes an Indiana University program working with school districts to identify, select, and prepare aspiring school leaders. Advises schools of education to reorient their mission, engage in new lines of inquiry, reorganize the faculty. realign resources, and redesign…

Examines cooperative efforts among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in France to implement the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Describes collaborative efforts between NGO committees and government authorities, highlighting government experts' recommendations for changes in four areas of French law to conform to…

Describes a collaborative effort between a Nevada school district and the University of Nevada to support first-year teachers. The internship program provided mentoring, support, and services to first-year teachers. The article describes the three-phase approach to collaboration and offers recommendations for collaborative programs. (SM)

Describes the UTAD (Utah Article Delivery) Pilot Project, an innovative resource-sharing service that provides journal articles to the Utah higher education community, developed by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) in partnership with EBSCO Document Services. Highlights include goals, options considered, challenges, and evaluation. The…

Describes the design of a prototype multiauthor multimedia document production (MAMMDP) system. Discusses the problems of finding an appropriate task analysis technique, and introduces background concepts. Examines how the system's tasks were analyzed and represented during the early stages of the design. (AEF)

The University of Alabama College of Education began employing teachers full time as university faculty in 1985. The program provides undergraduate students with a master classroom practitioner and employs experienced adjunct staff (Teachers in Residence) who sensitize faculty to classroom issues and problems. The program enhances teacher growth.…

Libraries should be active participants in knowledge production, and should develop classificatory structures that support the needs of a diverse information ecology consisting of a complex web of interacting agents, users, and technologies. Within such an information ecology, a classificatory structure cannot follow a one-size-fits-all paradigm,…

Reports on establishment of the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education to promote the interests of 175 Hispanic-serving institutions, 118 historically Black colleges and universities, and 31 tribal colleges and universities. The Alliance seeks to increase student financial assistance, promote fair and inclusive college admission standards,…

An interdisciplinary faculty team from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy (Missouri) and Albany College of Pharmacy (New York) collaborated in integrating a course on herbal products with a course on critical thinking. The collaboration was designed to improve students' professional critical thinking, communication, and ethical decision-making…

Describes the local implementation of a nationwide substance abuse prevention program linking the public middle school setting with a doctor-lawyer team to educate students about substance abuse. Focuses on implementation of the project, the role of school personnel, program content, program results, and implications for social work practice. (RJM)

Responds to a study that found that group art therapy, bibliotherapy, and whole language instruction provide a good match for interdisciplinary learning for special needs students. Reviews and analyzes published literature in these areas, as well as in interdisciplinary instruction. Looks at program procedures and strengths and weaknesses. (RJM)