Purpose: To report on the collaborative project between Newcastle University Library and 3M which aimed to increase self-issue levels using six sigma methodology. Design/methodology/approach: The six-month long project is outlined and gives an insight into the process improvement methodology called six sigma. An explanation of why we ran the…

A State Education Department-based agency or Teachers Reserve is needed to canvass New York for potential teachers to stem the rising teacher shortage and to develop and maintain a program for training or retraining any individual desiring a teaching career. A statewide meeting of colleges, school administrators, and women's service groups is…

The Compact for Education is not yet particularly significant either for good or evil. Partly because of time and partly because of unreasonable expectations, the Compact is not yet a going concern. Enthusiasts have overestimated Compact possibilities and opponents have overestimated its dangers, so if the organization has limited rather than…

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 Pennsylvania Advancement School operates as a laboratory for stimulating positive change in the educational community through its programs for urban students and teachers. Sixth to eighth grade boys performing below potential in Philadelphia schools are brought to the school to participate in instructional projects during at least one 14-week…

At the beginning of its second 50 years the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), a national voluntary consortium of more than 830 colleges and universities, is proud of its achievements and points to unmatched public concern as it continues efforts to promote the preparation of effective teachers in response to today's…

In an era of universal access to education at all levels, high schools and colleges can no longer operate as separate worlds. In this report, the Carnegie Commission calls for closer cooperation between schools and colleges to provide equal opportunity to all students; to accommodate the growth of nontraditional study and more flexible curricula…

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…

Chapter I of this report on interinstitutional cooperation in New York State discusses the development, advantages, problems of and need for interinstitutional cooperation in the State and its priority in the planning effort. The second chapter presents an inventory of cooperative activities in higher education organized by region and priority as…

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…

As education becomes more and more specialized, the need for diversity within academic programs becomes greater. The solution to this uniformity, especially in the United States, has been that of the formation of consortia or other cooperative agreements between and among different colleges and universities. The province of Ontario, Canada, has…

A discussion of public interactions which arise in four major areas of archival activity: acquisition, reference, interinstitutional cooperation, and outreach. (Author/JAB)

Describes a career awareness program in psychology sponsored by Central New York Psychological Association, the Hutchings Psychiatric Center, and the Exploring Division of Boy Scouts of America. Program provides high school students with an introduction to the field of psychology, its educational requirements, and occupational opportunities as…

To establish a productive program of collaboration, a continuing education agency must (1) identify resources it desires from the environment, (2) identify compatible partners that can supply these resources and that need what the continuing education program can offer, and (3) consummate the relationship. (SK)