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"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."

"With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Willamette University, Whitman College, University of Puget Sound, Reed College, and Lewis and Clark College have formed the Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C). Working toward the regular sharing of expertise and resources, the mission of the NW5C is to enhance the student academic experience at our five liberal arts colleges through enrichment and development of faculty as teacher-scholars. In service of this mission, the Consortium will provide the infrastructure to support collaborative efforts among its member institutions."

"But students have different goals and want to learn different languages, and trying to meet students' needs and desires in world languages is in some cases an economic nightmare, for a small liberal university like Schreiner. We needed some solution on how to do this.""