Feature exemplars of current practices in partnerships for student learning from participating campuses.
Identify barriers to the development and implementation of joint programs and share resolution strategies.
Illustrate the benefits that partnerships promote, not only for the students, but for faculty, staff, and the community.
Provide a scholarly forum for recent research on partnerships.
Foster new partnerships among and within participating institutions.
Disseminate electronically a collection of papers, web sites, and other resources to share what is learned with institutions nationally.
The Innovative Partnerships for Student Learning Conference is designed to bring together faculty, administrators and students from all types of higher education institutions as well as business and community members to share innovative practices and research on partnerships to promote learning. These partnerships are many and varied and can include valued connections between the curriculum and co-curriculum or between on-campus and off-campus experiences. Partnerships may also form between two-year and four-year institutions both public and private.
Tony Chambers, Associate Vice Provost, Students and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Gwen Dungy, NASPA Executive Director
Cecilia L. López, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Harold Washington College
Felice Nudelman, Director of Education, The New York Times