I hope you get a chance to read Widmeyer Senior Counsel John Burness’s commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education.  He shares: “The complexity of establishing major programs at the level that many institutions are attempting—a complexity now compounded by the fiscal crisis—can be daunting, requiring a high level of due diligence to ensure the quality of the enterprise and a return on the significant investment of human and financial resources.  Already some institutions have pulled back from widely and proudly announced international collaborations with, of course, considerable less publicity than their kickoffs.”

Food for thought as we all rush to obtain the next ’shiny object’ in higher education.  As John points out, before moving too quickly “an institution needs to understand its mission and how the proposed programmatic and physical collaborations will reinforce and not distort that mission.”

Posted by Teresa Valerio Parrot on 10/4/09. Categories: Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response