Word: consortium
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Although the name consortium is new to education, the idea is an old one; Harvard and Radcliffe, for example, have formally permitted student exchange and coordinated their curriculums since 1943. The major growth of consortiums has come within the past five years, as schools both great and small have discovered that the pressure for excellence is forcing them to look beyond their own campuses for help. This has proved particularly true in the field of scientific research: universities have been able to undertake expensive projects together that none of them could have financed alone. In one such coalition, twelve universities...
Pressure for Excellence. Technically, the Central States Association is known as a "consortium," which today has become by far the most popular way for schools to make the most of their educational facilities. There are now at least 800 such arrangements to share the cost and spread the wealth in the U.S., with 200 more in the planning stage. "We can do things together that we can't do alone," says President Donald Kleckner of Elmhurst College, near Chicago, which is joining seven other small Midwestern schools next year to form the Mississippi Valley Association. "Many colleges are deciding...
Washington observers were inclined to agree that the changes so far were relatively minor, though hopeful. Full-scale U.S. aid to India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...
...builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...lately has been discovered in much greater quantities than anyone had expected. Dutch gas resources have proved to be the world's second richest (after the U.S.'s), and in Britain, there have been five major strikes in the North Sea and Yorkshire since last fall. A consortium of the British government's Gas Council and three U.S.owned companies reported last week that a newly found well yields 25 million cu. ft. of gas daily, double the group's earlier claims...