Partnerships and Collaborations: a 23-Member Health Consortium
Jan 13Reproduced from the special edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Financial Strategies for a Crisis and BeyondBy ALEXANDER C. KAFKA | December 2020As with the upstate New York consortia, New England has its own consortia within consortia and overlapping groups. For instance, a major driver of collaborative thinking in the region has been the 19-member Boston Consortium, founded in 1995. Its members share audit resources, risk-management and travel pools, specialty working groups (“communities of practice”), and professional-development programs. Three members — Babson College, Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College — have their own consortium, too, with student cross-registration opportunities and some shared administrative functions and student activities. In addition, originating from discussions in 2006 among Boston Consortium members, some colleges and charter...
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