Highlights a Beacon Colleges Grant-funded project conducted by six Oregon community colleges to foster interagency cooperation among social and welfare services, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Offers such guidelines for collaborative projects as focus on individual needs, foster independence from agency services, and…

Traces the history of consortia of community colleges and universities. Identifies the problems facing community colleges in the 1990s. Describes several cooperative endeavors already underway that illustrate the effectiveness of consortia in raising community and national awareness of the importance of community colleges in U.S. educational…

The Association for Higher Education of North Texas is an alliance of 20 colleges and universities, 21 high-tech businesses, and civic interests in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that is modeling new ways for higher education institutions to respond to community needs. Other consortia are generally curriculum centered, service centered, or special…

The Illinois Consortium for International Studies has developed a cost-effective program for community college students to study abroad. Currently, students study in England and Austria, and a program will open in Mexico. Emphasis has been on foreign study, but programs to internationalize the campus and curriculum are being planned. (Author/MSE)

Describes the Kansas Community College Research Consortium (KCCRC), focusing on motivations for organizing a research consortium to meet accountability demands, the KCCRC's organization and operating procedures, determination of objectives and dissemination of results, strengths and weaknesses, and examples of KCCRC studies. (DMM)

The HealthCare Interactive Videodisc Consortium, a self-governing organization, was formed to design, produce, and evaluate interactive videodisc courseware for the medical field. The 14 United States and 4 Canadian medical and nursing school members were selected based on subject matter and biomedical communications expertise and availability for…

Describes the efforts of the Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) consortium to provide technical assistance in Taiwan, Surinam, the Republic of China, and other countries. Highlights separate projects of CCID members, community college programs with companies and international organizations, and the results of community college…

Discussion of issues that should be addressed when catalogers in small public libraries begin to automate as part of a consortium uses library cooperatives from Massachusetts (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing, CLAMS) and Florida as examples. Topics discussed include characteristics of the catalogers; cataloging standards; decision…

This study determined how the 12 academic libraries in the Council for Interinstitutional Cooperation (CIC) approached the challenge of identifying a constituency for fund-raising development activities. Topics discussed include results of a literature review; university organization for development activities; staffing; examples of achievements;…

Describes the Kentuckiana Metroversity Linking project, a consortium of academic and public libraries using the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol to provide service to Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana. Topics addressed include the Z39.50 standard, the consultant's role, addressing technical issues, Internet vs. dial-in access,…

Michigan has long advocated local control of education, a philosophy that particularly applies to purchasing school buses. To counter adverse legal actions stemming from noncompetitive bidding practices, the Michigan School Business Officials and the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation collaborated to develop a comprehensive,…

Defines and discusses strategies for digital preservation. Describes the United Kingdom's CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries) exemplars in digital archives project "Cedars" led by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Leeds to address strategic, methodological, and practical issues, and to provide guidance in best…

Describes practices, programs, and policies that colleges and universities can use to collaborate on student recruitment, using the experience of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities (Ohio) as illustration. Collaborative projects include development of written materials, recruitment events, presentations, joint trips or…

Describes a distance learning network in Wisconsin created by an educational consortium, KSCADE (K-12 Schools/College Alliance for Distance Education), that included business partners to provide students in small rural high schools with courses not otherwise available. Compares the new video compression and asynchronous transfer mode technology to…

Discussion of the way technology is changing the delivery of information services to students and teachers focuses on an assessment rubric designed to upgrade library services by focusing on library media specialists' responsibilities. Provides examples of use of the rubric in an elementary school and in a library consortium. (Contains 2…