The subject of access has been a concern of higher education in the United States from its very beginning to the present time, as illustrated by the 2006 report of Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling’s Commission on the Future of U.S. Higher Education. For many, participation in higher education has provided them with the opportunity to succeed and share in the American Dream.
This issue examines the power of cooperative information technology on campus. One of our main feature articles focuses on the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the higher education consortium behind The Big Ten and the University of Chicago’s fiber optic networking collaboration that connects CIC universities to each other and to other research “hubs” worldwide, giving researchers, faculty, staff and students access to ultra-broad bandwidth infrastructure and powerful network services.
Design is weaving a strong thread throughout higher education. Design touches the classroom, dorm room, student facilities, and the heart of the campus itself. Design is what is most apparent when parents and students walk your campus for the first time, and it is design that will attract the students. This issue will focus on how participating in a purchasing cooperative can help your campus find the funds to achieve the design that will recruit students, faculty and staff.
Many important developments emerged in the United States on college and university campuses in response to the events of September 11, 2001, and, seven years later, to the Virginia Tech shootings. One of the most important impacts 9/11 and Virginia Tech had on higher education was to strip away the innocence academia had taken for granted that created a safe world for students to learn, to discover, and to aspire to their greatest abilities.
Our nation is going through a far-reaching medical care transition that will change how every college and university manages employee health care benefits. Institutions will need to cooperate with each other even more to be able to offer important faculty and staff quality employee benefits. Our spring 2010 issue will detail the building, managing, and sustaining of higher education employee benefits consortia.
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Cooperative learning is moving beyond the class room to include the process by which colleges and universities work with K-12 schools to prepare today’s student for tomorrow’s world. Cooperative efforts result in participants striving for mutual benefit so that all group members gain from each other's efforts. In cooperative learning situations there is a positive interdependence among students' goal attainments; students perceive that they can reach their learning goals if and only if the other students in the learning group also reach their goals.
The breadth and width of cooperative endeavors in higher education has not yet been realized, but what is very clear is that there are a multitude of higher education consortia gems changing the playing field for colleges and universities across America. This issue highlights a few of the brightest gems in the collaborative academic world.
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