Instiutional Change

Collaborative Leadership

The Collaboratory Project, Northwestern University
The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern University initiative that provides project consulting, training, technical advice, and Web-based resources and services to K-12 teachers and their students who are interested in using Internet technologies to advance education. The Collaboratory is an easy-to-use, web-based collaborative environment that teachers use to develop project-based activities that are benchmarked to Illinois Learning Standards and Goals.

Santa Ana Education Partnership
Working within a collaborative structure that represents the interests of all major student constituents in central Orange County, California, the Santa Ana Partnership has created a comprehensive institutional model for increasing access to higher education for traditionally underrepresented students. The partnership has developed innovative collaborations with K-12 schools and community partners to focus on the vulnerable points of transition from high school to community college and from community college to four-year universities for Santa Ana's overwhelmingly Latino student body. Sara Lundquist, Vice President of Student Services at Santa Ana College, serves as the director of the partnership, which grew out of Project STEP (Student/Teacher Education Partnership) and the Ford Foundation's Urban Partnership Program.

International Association of Universities
Founded in 1950, IAU is the UNESCO-based world-wide association of universities. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional and national bodies active in higher education. As a cooperation and service-oriented organization, IAU aims to promote the exchange of information, experience and ideas, to facilitate academic mobility and international collaboration among universities, and to contribute, through research and meetings, to informed higher education policy debate. The web site contains the World Higher Education Database (WHED) with information available on the higher education systems of some 180 countries and territories worldwide.

Learning Without Limits: An Agenda for the Office of Postsecondary Education
This November 2000 agenda report by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education lays out the role OPE should play within higher education and examines how to best use the strengths of both the education community and the for-profit sector to improve postsecondary education in the new century. The report addresses the following themes: access in terms of preparing all students to enter and succeed at college and in terms of paying for college; improving teacher quality; integrating technology and distance education into the curriculum; and revitalizing international education.

Regional Higher Education Boards
The three regional higher eduction boards, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), and the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), are interstate compacts for education.  The boards help government and education leaders work cooperatively to advance education and, in doing so, improve the social and economic life of the various regions. Emphasizing the relationship between schools and colleges, these organizations help states improve the quality of education, student opportunity and student achievement.

Academic Deans, Vice Presidents, and Department Chairs: Cases for Conversation and Reflection
Coordinated by Peter A. Facione, past president of the American Conference of Academic Deans, these fictional case studies concern the work of and everyday challenges facing academic administration -- academic chairs, deans, and vice presidents of academic affairs. These short cases and stories have been created to start conversations and reflection that will help in building a sense of academic leadership and professional decision making and in becoming more imaginative in finding resolutions to problems.

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