A North American-European university consortium engages in exchange of allied health students and faculty, joint research projects, seminars, study tours, shared resources, and intensive training programs. (SK)

Discusses the collaboration of six Missouri higher education institutions to offer improved access to doctoral education and statewide preparation of educational leaders. Describes unique aspects of the program, challenges such as creating a culture of collaboration and establishing and meeting high standards, the program's outcomes, and lessons…

States that the effectiveness of the North Central Association's Commission on Institutions of Higher Education annual meeting programs and this issue of the NCA Quarterly testify to the need for collaborative efforts. Outlines three ways to make educational partnerships successful. Asserts that collaboration depends on sharing recommendations,…

School counselors are expected to be prepared to work cooperatively with school administrators, teachers, special education teachers, and other school personnel so that can better serve students. Currently, various school professionals are trained separately and have few opportunities to learn about each other's roles and responsibilities.…

Both community education and social work from a settlement house perspective focus on empowerment, problem solving, and increasing participation in lifelong learning. Both fields debate narrow versus broader methods. Collaborative university-community approaches show how their combined philosophies and practices offer reform possibilities. (SK)

Evaluates Samuel Chandler Earle's 1911 presentation to the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Demonstrates Earle's role in the shift of technical writing courses that combined both the goals of an engineering curriculum with the real-world needs of the graduated engineer. Finds that Earle's "Tufts Experiment" provided…

The collaboration between the Frontier Nursing Service and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing provides a way for those with associate degrees in midwifery to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursing and become eligible for advanced training in midwifery. Distance learning facilitates instruction for the geographically dispersed midwives.…

Describes a cooperative approach to faculty development between competing further and higher education institutions and the relationship between the institutions and a professional organization. Outlines the benefits of cooperation for staff, students, and professional organizations. (SK)

Synthesis of a five-stage collaboration model and an alliance model resulted in an interprofessional alliance model, which describes stages and relationships in collaboration among health professionals. The model shows how successful collaboration is correlated with the level of caring, personal knowledge, and social support in the relationships.…

Discusses elements of successful cooperative planning for middle school teaching teams. Considers definitions for content goals, learners, and effective co-teaching. Describes planning of instructional units, cooperative grouping, roles and responsibilities for co-teachers, and tiered activities for a cooperative literature study. (JPB)

Interviews with chief executive officers of three New Zealand polytechnics elicited themes regarding polytechnics' role in a "postmarket" environment: (1) collaboration is possible amidst fierce competition; (2) change is slow, externally driven, and complex; and (3) the polytechnic sector is in disarray. (Contains 27 references.) (SK)

Secondary teachers in a master's with initial certification program designed and taught interdisciplinary lessons. They discovered creative ways to connect subjects and address real problems and issues, gained insight into other subject areas, and acquired experience in collaborating with other teachers. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Describes an alternative method of academic advising, as opposed to the traditional faculty-student model. The objective of the counseling liaison model is to increase the retention and graduation rates of students through linking counseling intervention strategies with developmental academic advising. (Contains 12 references.) (GCP)

The theoretical premise of this article is that policy is constructed and presented discursively. The Bologna process presents us with an example of such a policy construction process where the quality policy goals are set jointly in transnational settings, requiring different kinds of negotiations and discursive strategies. Discourse analysis of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the salience of collaborative cultures relative to student achievement. School culture data was collected from the faculties of 81 schools in Indiana during the spring semester of the 2002-03 school year using survey methodology. The data from these schools provided scores on six factors found in the…