Describes a partnership between schools in College Station, Texas and in Mexico City that conducted school activities via videoconferencing. The activities were designed to help the students understand cultural differences by studying murals and then creating their own. (LRW)

Analysis of 55 university-enterprise projects in Central and Eastern Europe identified four models: (1) preparation for future cooperation; (2) projects in which universities benefit from business expertise; (3) reciprocal action and benefits to both partners; and (4) cooperation fully integrated into the mission of all partners. (SK)

The Distance Learning Partnership in Gerontology involves eight Georgia state universities in a videoconferencing network for gerontology education. Design features include multilevel administration and a multimethod, multimeasure evaluation plan. Challenges include the diversity of faculty and students and enabling faculty autonomy within a…

A community-based interdisciplinary health professions education project involving medicine, nursing, and allied health provides experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Committed leadership, communication, and active community involvement are keys to success. (SK)

Discusses the impact of institutional culture on collaboration among nursing faculty. Explores facets of collaboration: strategic planning, origins of change, group dynamics, and community building. Contains 25 references. (SK)

Presents arguments for teacher-researcher collaboration in K-12 technology education. Identifies barriers that must be overcome in order to create a common culture of design and research. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

An effective career planning program involves collaboration among schools, families, businesses, industries, and community. All stakeholders work together to design a program that will help each student establish and achieve goals through ongoing career planning. (SK)

Despite differences between adult basic education and English for speakers of other languages, collaboration provides benefits in the areas of student assessment, placement, flexible learning pathways, shared knowledge and resources, and course and subject flexibility. Teachers are able to share strategies and staff development opportunities. (SK)

Considers how the history of relations between composition and literature has involved a vexed tangle of misunderstanding and hurt. Suggests that both fields would benefit from thinking through some of the vexations. Argues for maintaining the marriage between composition and literature. Admires the situation in schools where there is no tension…

Despite calls for collaboration between counselor educators and school counselors, little is known about how collaboratives develop and what, if any, benefits are derived by the participants. Describes an 8-year collaboration between a group of university-based counselor educators and school counselors in a partnership community. Interviews reveal…

Provides suggestions to mental health personnel for improving the delivery of therapeutic staff support in the public schools. Written from the school district's perspective, article provides basic information on how schools function, along with suggestions for improving communication with school personnel. (GCP)

Addresses the role of speech language pathologists in schools, the settings in which they work, and the ways in which they can work together with teachers to serve children's needs. (SK)

A small nursing school sought to improve teaching of skills in communication, observation, care planning, nursing, technology, and professional/personal development. Skills were identified in questionnaires and group interviews, and ways to implement teaching without the multidisciplinary resources of larger institutions were developed. (Contains…

Engagement in family and consumer sciences leads to action that improves the human condition. Collaboration and Reciprocity in Education (CARE) provides the foundation for instruction, research, and service, engaging academic and community agencies to establish local and international partnerships that will improve the condition of individuals,…

As a result of both the external pressures and the known benefits of collaboration, many higher education institutions are trying to create learning communities, service and community-based learning, and interdisciplinary research and teaching. However, over 50% of collaborations fail. There has been virtually no research on how to enable higher…