Download or read book Best Practices in Higher Education Consortia How Institutions Can Work Together written by Lawrence G. Dotolo and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic consortia offer colleges and universities the opportunity to share resources--and thus save money and increase efficiency without sacrificing program quality. This volume of New Directions for Higher Education gives detailed accounts of activities and programs that existing consortia have already refined, providing practical models that can be replicated or modified by other institutions. Drawing from first-hand experience, the authors describe how to start and sustain a consortium, and share the benefits and lessons learned from consortial collaborations in areas such as library cooperation, cross-registration, the use of technology, the joint purchasing of goods and services, admissions and recruitment practices, and faculty development. This is the 106th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education.
Download or read book Partnerships and Collaboration in Higher Education written by Pamela L. Eddy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current context in higher education is becoming increasingly complex. Coupled with this organizational complexitiy of operations is a climate of diminishing resources and funding for education in general. Calls for educational reform and limited resources make collaborative responses an attractive option because of the ability to pool talent and resources. Collaborative efforts take many forms. Partnerships may emerge from insitutions working together, departments working across institutions or with community partners, or colleges and universities pairing across national borders. Likewise, collaborations may emerge between and among faculty members that resemble more traditional research projects. From these faculty collaborations, organizational partnerships may then develop. This monograph explroes the key building blocks required to create successful joint ventures. One section reviews partnerships from an institutional perspective, another covers individual collaborations, and a section on future issues identifies threats to partnerships, emergence of international partnerships, and steps to create strategic partnerships. The target audience for this volume includes those interested in developing partnerships or better supporting existing alliances. Administrators with a goal of using partnerships to parlay organizational strengths while saving resources can anticipate problems with the formation of partnerships, undersnd the elemtns that provide support for group work, and learn how to frame the partnership to leverage commitment through a shared vision. Faculty interested in collaboration will find many valuable insights regarding the right questions to ask before committing to a project. And policymakers and grant-funding agencies can use the information to craft mandates and grant language to best support successful partnerships. ultimately, understanding the process of developing partnerships can result in more successful collaborations. This is Vol 36 Issue 2 of the Jossey Bass Ashe Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Download or read book Best Practices in Planning Strategically for Online Educational Programs written by Elliot King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Practices in Planning Strategically for Online Educational Programs is a step-by-step guide to developing strategic plans for creating and implementing online educational programs within higher education institutions. From conception to execution and assessment, the successful management of purposeful online educational programs in colleges and universities carries increasing importance and a unique set of requirements. This book enables administrators and faculty to: identify the opportunities and challenges presented by online education for institutions based on their histories, missions and market positions develop a roadmap for creating and implementing a strategic plan provide guidance for assessing the plan and insight into the iterative nature of planning. With computer networked-based technologies gaining ground in traditional private and public institutions, this critical volume is the first to apply the principles and practices associated with strategic planning specifically to online educational programs.
Download or read book Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development Advancing E Learning Policies written by Stansfield, Mark and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides cost effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring long term success for both teacher and student; covers the latest research and findings in relation to best practice examples and case studies.
Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Strategic Partnerships written by Marilyn J. Amey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the characteristics and conditions that lead to successful educational partnerships?What can we learn from partnerships that fail, cannot be sustained over time, or cease to benefit their partners?This book serves as a guide to the successful implementation of partnerships. It provides the context and tools for readers who are responding to the increasing demands of policy makers, funders and institutional leaders to use partnerships to address local, state and federal issues, achieve external mandates, meet public or internal agendas, or pursue international collaborations. This guide provides an evidence-based framework for institutional and organizational leaders to develop the vision, shared values and norms to achieve the “partnership capital” that will sustain an enduring relationship. It offers a three-phase model of the development process of collaboration, together with a tool box for those charged with partnering and leading organizational change, and includes a template for both creating new partnerships and sustaining existing ones.The authors start by differentiating between “traditional,” often ad-hoc, partnerships and “strategic partnerships” that align organizational strategy with partnership actions; and by identifying the importance of moving beyond incremental or surface “first order” change to develop deep “second order change” through which underlying structures and operations are questioned and new processes emerge due to the partnership. They offer analyses and understandings of seven key components for success: exploring motivations; developing partner relationships; communicating and framing purpose; creating collaborative structures and resources; leading various partnership stages; generating partnership capital; and implementing strategies for sustaining partnerships. Each chapter concludes with a case study to provide more understanding of the ideas presented, and for use in training or classes. This guide is addressed to policy makers and educational leaders, college administrators, and their non-profit and business partners, to enable them to lead and create strategic partnerships and facilitate organizational change.
Download or read book An Administrator s Guide to Online Education written by Kaye Shelton and published by IAP. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education is an essential resource for the higher education administrator. Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not about teaching; it is about effectively administrating an online education program. Grounded in existing distance education theory, and drawing from best practices, current research, and an extensive review of current literature, An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education systematically identifies and discusses seven key issues that affect the practice of online education today: leadership and strategic planning, policy and operation, faculty, online student services, online student success, technology and the courseware management system, and finally marketing. Throughout the text, the authors provide case studies, examples, policies, and resources from actual institutions, which further enhance the value of this text. An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education, encompasses the issues and provides information on how to accomplish one specific task: successful online education administration.
Download or read book Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Finance written by and published by Assoc. of Governing Boards. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High impact Educational Practices written by George D. Kuh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication¿the latest report from AAC&U¿s Liberal Education and America¿s Promise (LEAP) initiative¿defines a set of educational practices that research has demonstrated have a significant impact on student success. Author George Kuh presents data from the National Survey of Student Engagement about these practices and explains why they benefit all students, but also seem to benefit underserved students even more than their more advantaged peers. The report also presents data that show definitively that underserved students are the least likely students, on average, to have access to these practices.
Download or read book Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement written by University of Michigan, National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individually and collectively, institutions of higher education possess considerable resources--human, fiscal, organizational, and intellectual--which are critical to addressing significant social issues. Additionally, these institutions are physically rooted in their communities. Therefore, investing in the betterment of their immediate environments is good for both the community and the institution. However, it is recognized that higher education institutions often fall short of making a real impact in their home communities. Therefore, a conference was convened to examine the current and evolving role of higher education institutions, particularly those operating within the context of coalitions, consortia and state systems, to catalyze change on issues affecting communities and society as a whole. Specifically, the focus of the conference was to develop and strengthen an understanding of how higher education might work more effectively with communities and it is believed that consortia or collaboratives of higher education institutions, along with community partners, can learn from one another. The papers offered in this monograph are the result of the Wingspread Conference on "Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement", conducted on October 27-29, 2004, in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference, the second of a three-part series, was sponsored by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good at the University of Michigan School of Education, the Johnson Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The papers presented in this monograph are: (1) Reflections on Community-Campus Partnerships: What Has Been Learned? What are the Next Challenges? (Barbara A. Holland); (2) Reflections on the Wingspread Experience (Bruce L. Mallory); (3) Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement: Faculty and Researchers' Perspectives (Ira Harkavy); (4) Challenges to Community-Higher Education Partnerships: A Call to Action (David Cox and Sarena Seifer); (5) Mission and Community: The Culture of Community Engagement and Minority Serving Institutions (Maurice C. Taylor, Brighid Dwyer, and Sandra Pacheco); (6) Research Universities Working Together to Serve Multiple Communities: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Engagement Initiative (John C. Burkhardt and Rachel Lewis); and (7) Partnering with the Old North State (Judith Welch Wegner). "Partnerships for Engagement Futures", an introduction by Ryan E. Smerek, Penny A. Pasque, Bruce Mallory, and Barbara A. Holland, is included. Individual papers contain tables, footnotes, and references.
Download or read book Law Librarianship in the Twenty First Century written by Roy Balleste and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law Librarianship in the 21st Century, a text for library and information science courses on law librarianship, introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship. With no prior knowledge of the law required, students using this book will find practical answers to such questions as: What is law librarianship? How do you become a law librarian? How does law librarianship interrelate with the legal world? Individual chapters provide a concise treatment of such specialized topics as the history of law librarianship, international law, and government documents. Standard topics are dealt with as they apply to the law library, including collection development, public services, technical processing, administration, technology, and consortia. The textbook also includes an explanation of the common acronyms and special terminology needed to work in a law library. This new edition updates the text throughout and adds two new chapters.
Download or read book Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration written by Kezar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides needed guidance and advice for how colleges and universities can reorganize to foster more collaborative work. In a time of declining resources, financial challenges, changing demographics, and staff overturn, institutions are looking for ways to maximize their resources and still be effective. This book is based on a study of campuses that have been successful in recreating their environments to support collaborative work.
Download or read book Consorting And Collaborating In The Education Market Place written by Chris Husbands and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 The Education Market Place and the Collaborative Response: An Introduction -- part Part 1: Mapping the Development of Collaborative Networks -- chapter 2 Schools, Markets and Collaboration: New Models for Educational Polity? -- chapter 3 Collaboration: A Condition of Survival for Small Rural Schools? -- chapter 4 Collaboration, Competition and Cross-phase Liaison: The North Lowestoft Schools Network -- chapter 5 The Rationale and Experience of a Schools Association: The Ivel Schools Association -- chapter 6 Education 2000: Collaboration and Cooperation as a Model of Change Management -- chapter 7 A Consortium Approach to Staff Development -- chapter 8 Collaboration and Competition in Education: Marriage not Divorce -- chapter 9 Collaboration for School Improvement: The Power of Partnership -- part Part 2: Issues in the Development of Collaborative Networks -- chapter 10 Consortium Collaboration The Experience of TVEI -- chapter 11 Consortium Collaboration in Teacher Education: The ERTEC Experience -- chapter 12 Collaboration through Networking: The Collaborative Action Research Network -- chapter 13 Beyond Collaboration: On the Importance of Community -- chapter 14 Theories of Association: The Social Psychology of Working Together in Educational Consortia.
Download or read book Access to Higher Education Through Consortia written by Lawrence George Dotolo and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many different collaborative programs highlighted in this volume are innovative, efficient, and successful. They could be duplicated by other institutions working together with the goal of enhancing access to higher education. The chapter authors have years of experience in operating in a cooperative setting, and their expertise has greatly improved the work of their individual consortium. Working in a cooperative setting gives institutions the ability to meet the demands of access while sharing their resources. This volume can serve as an effective guide to institutions seeking to widen their efforts to provide greater access. This is the 138th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education.
Download or read book Consortiums in American Higher Education 1965 66 written by Raymond S. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooperation in Community Colleges written by Frederic Steven Gore and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the mounting pressures on institutions of higher education to do more with limited resources, the opportunity to collaborate with other colleges has emerged as a viable tool to create efficiencies and obtain valuable knowledge otherwise unattainable by an institution, even if that collaboration takes place with a competing institution. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are critical to managing student information and college operations, but can be challenging for colleges to implement. Consortia present a unique solution to colleges to address gaps in their expertise and skills needed to achieve a successful ERP implementation. This study explores the factors that are critical to successful ERP implementations in a community college setting and aims to develop a model that will assist colleges in targeting their efforts so as to make the best use of their resources. This paper shares a set of best practices to assist community colleges in accomplishing successful ERP implementations. In addition, this paper introduces a potential solution to community colleges of using a consortium relationship with like colleges to support the ERP implementation process and best practices with regard to these consortia to successfully support these efforts. Additionally, this best practices are discussed in this paper and are a compilation from insights gained through a review of the academic literature on ERP success factors and surveys of four community colleges that had completed ERP implementations. We hope that these insights will prove beneficial to colleges contemplating the implementation of a new ERP system. We believe that this paper can also assist colleges in determining if a consortium approach to their ERP implementation would be advantageous, generating greater bargaining power for the participating colleges, providing for the sharing of information between colleges, and helping to accommodate for any deficiency in expertise.
