During the month of February, APLU staff hosted several webinars to gather input on potential functions of the consortium. Here are the discussion questions and a summary of the discussions. For further detail, see Barbara Couture’s letter below.
The next steps are an Institutional Consortium Advisory Board meeting on March 12, followed by a survey to prioritize critical functions. The survey requires a coordinated official response from each institution. In addition to the current group of participants, we may need assistance from others, including but not limited to Technology Transfer, Research Compliance Services (for IRB), and Office of the General Counsel. If you think of other campus stakeholders, please let me know.
Best,
Andrew Bonamici, UO Libraries
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February 26, 2013
Dear Participants in the APLU Institutional Consortium Initiative:
Our thanks to all of you who joined our recent webinar series of discussions on potential functions for an institutional consortium. As promised, we are sending you today a summary of the key issues identified in these discussions. Our next step is to convene the Institutional Consortium Advisory Board, which will hold a virtual meeting on March 12. Board members will be given an opportunity to “weigh in” on potential consortium functions at this meeting and help us arrive at a condensed list of key functions. Shortly after this meeting, we will send all participants a brief survey that invites you to prioritize key functions and give us any additional information about your possible interests in an institutional consortium. Institutions will also be asked to provide an official “institutional response” to our survey so we can understand institutional priorities well.
Within a few days, we will post to our APLU website a list of the institutions that have been recorded as participants in the institutional consortium design project. As the project moves forward, we will be asking institutional leaders to provide a more formal commitment to establishing such a corporation. At this point in time, we’d like you to know which institutions have shared interest in this concept, so that you can get a sense of the breadth of interest. You can also find on our APLU website all documents which have been distributed to participants in our conversations, a list of our Institutional Consortium Advisory Board members, and a list of those individuals who have been chosen to lead demonstration projects to collaboratively develop “course specifications” for a single course. To learn more about any aspect of the initiative, again, go to http://www.aplu.org/page.aspx?pid=2582, click on the blue tab marked “Major Initiatives,” and then on the tab marked “Institutional Consortium”).
We look forward to your continued participation in this project. If you have additional questions at this time, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best wishes,
Barbara Couture
Senior Advisor, APLU
bcouture [at] aplu [dot] org
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