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"The Western New York Consortium of Higher Education has been around -- in name, at least -- since 1967. But the level of collaboration between the 21 member institutions in and around Buffalo was minuscule until a pair of grants from a local foundation enlivened the consortium in recent years."

"Four institutions of higher education have been named winners of the American Council on Education's (ACE) Bringing the World into the Classroom Award, which recognizes innovative use of technology to promote internationalization."

For the past four years, students at the College of Staten Island have been able to attend classes in Turkey, China, Greece, Italy, and South Africa without having to leave the comforts of the College's beautiful 204-acre campus. Thanks to the Virtual Classroom Project, where students at CSI link to higher education institutions in other countries, and students at those colleges also connect with them, everyone involved gains insights to other parts of the world that they previously only might have imagined.

"Yale, Cornell University, and Columbia University, backed by a two-year, $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have launched a pilot program to conduct classes in uncommonly taught languages, including Indonesian, Yoruba, and Zulu, across the different campuses using videoconferencing technology. In doing so, they're reviving not only language programs on the brink of extinction, but also a familiar concept in distance education. At a time when asynchronous instruction reaching hundreds of thousands of students is increasingly common, these universities are returning to a mode of distance learning geared toward small classes in which students all meet at the same time."

Interesting to see the emphasis on very high end, very expensive tech.

"there's nothing like a crisis to make you rethink who your friends are, which was evident in the conference itself and organizers' calls for further discussion about these issues. It is also evident among those institutions that have had a longer and deeper struggle, which have begun integrating in significant ways. The Independent College Enterprise, a group of nine small colleges in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Massachusetts, has been collaborating on administrative services since the late 1990s. The group pooled resources to purchase shared administrative software, which the presidents in the organization estimate to have save each campus millions of dollars since it was purchased."

ACS New Paradigm

A Liberal-Arts Consortium Experiments With Course Sharing

talk about collaboration as diversity

UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.

"Five private liberal-arts colleges-four in West Virginia and one in Virginia-will share a remedial-mathematics professor, and two of them will share an American-history professor, in an effort to trim costs while maintaining a high quality of instruction, reports The Charleston Gazette. "

"In this episode, we hear from Jinghua Liu, an international student at Penn State's Erie campus, known as the Behrend College. Ms. Liu created a Web site that encourages discussion between students there and at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, in China."