90 institutions from 30 states and six nations

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National Consortium for Continuous Improvement
in Higher Education

• 90 institutions from 30 states and six nations
• Advancing sustainable excellence in higher
  education by promoting the practice and
  discipline of continuous improvement across
  academic and administrative functions.
• To do this, we focus on
• Leadership
• Organizational assessment
• Process improvement
• Strategic planning
• Organizational development
• Change management
• www.ncci-cu.org

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Leveraging Excellence Award Program

• NCCIs Leveraging Excellence Award honors
  institutions and organizations that not only
  achieve excellence,
• but also leverage their best practices
• to help others achieve excellence.
• Sponsored by

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Leveraging Excellence Judges

• Award Selection Panel
• Lee T. Todd, Jr., President, University of
  Kentucky, Chair
• Susan Jurow, Senior Vice President, NACUBO
• William E. Kirwan, Chancellor, University System
  of Maryland
• Mohammad H. Qayoumi, President, Cal State - East
  Bay
• Benjamin F. Quillian, Senior Vice President, ACE
• This panel was assisted by an NCCI preliminary
  review panel
• Patricia Brady, MIT (Emeritus), Chair
• Ron Coley, UC Berkeley
• Julie Furst-Bowe, University of Wisconsin- Stout
• Larry Gould, Fort Hays University
• Brent Ruben, Rutgers University

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Leveraging Excellence Winners

• Strategic Collaboration
• CIC - Committee on Institutional Cooperation
  (Big Ten plus Chicago)
• Capital Needs Analysis
• Brigham Young University

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Strategic Collaboration Committee on
Institutional Cooperation

• The CIC is a consortium of 12 research
  universities (members of the Big Ten the
  University of Chicago).
• CIC universities collaborate to share expertise,
  leverage resources, and innovate
• Coordinated purchasing saved 16 M
• Shared fiber network faster network and 13 M
  saved
• Shared study abroad, course development 100
• Best practice sharing and networking 100 peer
  networks
• Developing faculty leadership 900 leaders
• The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
• Contact Barbara McFadden Allen
• www.cic.net

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CNA - Capital Needs AnalysisBrigham Young
University

• Total capital needs one integrated program
• Capital funding, planning, and projecting of
  needs
• Includes asset re-capitalization/life cycle
  management, retrofits renewals,
  improvements/modernization and new asset
  planning of additional buildings/facilities and
  site/property needs.
• Life cycle model
• cradle to grave.
• Millions saved asset
• investment and
• management, and
• projecting future
• funding requirements.
• Contact Douglas Christensen

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Leveraging ExcellenceHonorable Mention

• Leveraging Research through International
  Networks
• Worldwide Universities Network
• Five College Joint Appointments
• Five Colleges, Incorporated
• Academic Audit
• Tennessee Board of Regents
• Building a Culture of Evidence to Improve
  Learning
• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Leveraging Research through International
Networks Worldwide Universities Network

• An international alliance of 16 major research
  universities from
• 4 continents creating capability to address
  global challenges
• Committed to large scale interdisciplinary
  research collaboration enhanced graduate
  experiences curriculum internationalization
• Over 70 academic communities involving 3500
  individuals, that have secured an additional 40
  million in income.
• 650 research mobility awards and 4
  collaboratively authored Masters programs
• Pump-priming financial, operational, and
  technical support aids faculty overcoming
  challenges risks of establishing and sustaining
  substantive innovative international activities
• First in an emerging trend, charting the course
• Contact d.pilsbury_at_wun.ac.uk www.wun.ac.uk

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FIVE COLLEGES J0INT APPOINTMENTSAmherst,
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, University of
Massachusetts Amherst

• Shared appointments among the five member
  institutions
• Faculty and administrative staff
• Since 1973, 80 Faculty appointments in 33 fields
• Currently 20 faculty and 3 administrative
  appointments
• BENEFITS
• Flexibility in staffing in response to change
• Enrichment of course offerings
• Greater range and depth of expertise
• Introduction of new and emerging scholarly fields
• Encouragement of collaboration and
  consultationamong the campuses
• Cost avoidance and cost savings more for less

Contact Lorna Peterson http//www.fivecolleges.ed
u/academic_programs/academprog_appoint.html
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ACADEMIC AUDITTennessee Board of Regents

• Goal Continuous quality improvement of
  teaching and learning
• Process Audit of academic quality
  processes
• Impact Leveraged the expertise of multiple
  institutions to maximize implementation
  of training and audit components in 19
  universities and community colleges
• Contact Paul Shorthttp//www.tbr.edu/academic_af
  fairs/acadaudit/audit1.htm

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Building a Culture of Evidence to Improve
Learning Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis

• IUPUIs centralized data and analysis services
  provide information resources for
• Outcomes assessment
• Program evaluation
• Institutional research
• Extensive use of these services for
  evidence-based decision-making across the campus
  has contributed to
• Program improvements at IUPUI
• National awards for innovative teaching
  learning initiatives
• Adoption of these initiatives by other
  institutions in the US, Japan, Korea, and
  elsewhere in the world
• Public demonstration of institutional
  accountability and student learning in an
  electronic institutional portfolio
  (www.iport.iupui.edu)

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National Consortium for ContinuousImprovement in
Higher Education

• Leveraging Excellence In Higher Education
• Learn more about these awards
• NCCIs annual meeting
• July 10-12, 2008
• Chicago
• And on our website
• www.ncci-cu.org