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July 12, 2005

8 Top Universities Plan Global ‘Partnership’

Some of the world’s leading research universities plan a new cooperative venture in which they will share faculty members and students and build what its leaders call a “global partnership.”

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Details about the arrangement are vague — so vague, in fact, that officials at the two American institutions planning to be involved, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley, aren’t ready to talk about it yet.

“This is a work in progress, and we’re not going to be ready for quite a while to say what our level of involvement in it is,” said Gila Reinstein, a spokeswoman for Yale. She noted that the formal alliance is not scheduled to begin until next January. A spokeswoman for Berkeley said she was still gatheringinformation about the project.

The announcement of the alliance was made Monday by the Australian National University, whose vice chancellor and president, Ian Chubb, is chairman of the partnership, which he said involved the National University of Singapore, Peking University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and the Universities of Copenhagen and Tokyo, in addition to his institution, Yale and Berkeley. (The announcement said that the University of Oxford and “one other leading university” have also been approached about participating.)

“The partnership comprises a selected group of research-intensive universities that share similar values, a global vision and a commitment to educating future world leaders,” Chubb said in a statement.

The statement offered few details about how the arrangements between the institutions would work, saying only that the partnership would “bring new opportunities for research, teaching and learning that is truly global in scope, through some combination of faculty collaboration and exchange, research training cooperation, undergraduate and postgraduate student exchange, joint/double degree programs, exchange of best practices and protocols, and benchmarking.”

Chubb added: “The partnership will be broad: a wide range of teaching and research possibilities are now open to us that will be better than any single one of us could provide on our own.”

— Doug Lederman

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Global Partnership

Creating such a partnership recognizes globalization in the educational field. A loose alliance such as this I am sure is difficult for all parties to buy into because of the underlying governance, resource allocation, and logistics details that must be worked through. Leaders at these institutions can look to private industry who have tackled many of these same issues as they have established global networks (such as supply chain networks).

Peter McAliney, Principal at Chenery & Company, Inc., at 7:09 am EDT on July 12, 2005

partnerships in HEI’s just beginning

The “global 8″ is the most public in the research arena along with Universitas 21 in the teaching arena. In reality there are a growing number of these agreements between institutions in both the research and teaching arenas, not just in click space but also in brick space as the HEI’s learn what the corporate sector has understood; not all institutions, as individuals, can support adequately all critical elements and that co-operative efforts are needed.

Given the structure of the institutions and the felt needs of faculty, these issues are more complex than in the private sector.

Never-the-less the pressure exists amongst academic institutions, regardless of ranking. With the expectation that more students will be graduating with credits from several universities, the issues on the education side are profound and very different from those on the research side.

It is an issue which is not put on the table very often, in “polite” company; but it is one which needs to see the light of day.

tom abeles, editor at On the Horizon, at 1:38 pm EDT on July 12, 2005

In actuality, professional schools, such as business and policy/international affairs have had these arrangements for a number of years where students can study at two or three schools on different continents and get degrees from each school.

This is sort of the next step by getting the whole university involved, not just the professional schools (the professional schools being more attuned to these sorts of globalization issues that the private sector is dealing with.

Daniel Zaretsky, Indiana University, at 2:37 pm EDT on July 12, 2005

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