A New Jersey consortium enables land-locked colleges to give their ecology and oceanography students the ocean as a laboratory. (Editor/HS)

If the private sector of higher education is to survive, it must cooperate with the public sector in order to receive state aid. (HS)

Shared facilities and resources expand educational opportunities. (HS)

Directors of Pennsylvania's eight formal educational consortia recently met in Harrisburg -- the first meeting of its kind in the nation. (Editor)

Purpose of this article is to suggest a solution for bridging the chasm between the universities and the public school systems. (Author/MB)

Describes the State-of-Illinois supported Cooperative Summer Institute of McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, which participated in a week-long Creative-Problem Solving Institute at the State University College in Buffalo, New York. (MB)

Describes programs designed to minimize problems that physics departments of two-year colleges have: (1) articulating with degree institutions, (2) teaching students that are weaker academically than those in typical four-year colleges, (3) obtaining suitable teaching materials, and (4) obtaining adequately prepared teachers. (DS)

The growing needs of private institutions is cause to explore the potential of financial development for institutions individually and collectively through an academic consortium. (Author)

Describes University of Washington TTT Project to develop certification standards and training procedures. (RT)

Selected quotes from the Department of Education position paper on the integration of vocational and secondary general schools. (RT)

Discusses the development of three regional interstate compact agencies in higher education. (MK)

Describes a cooperative arrangement among several school districts that permits the hiring of a full-time professional negotiator to handle collective bargaining agreements. (WD)