Partnership Campuses – a global key trend?

Anders Norberg

Education Strategist

Campus Skellefteå

Universities vs place

…changes over time

First medieval universities were communities and corporations

of masters and students

University outreach perspective

Main campus

Branch campuses

Learning centres

International campus

…and there are 17000+ universities… (source:Webometrics)

Illustration by Thomas Hansen for Universitas, No

What is a ”partnership campus”?

• …or a multi-university campus?• …or a multi-institutional campus?• …or an education hub?

Well, it is not…

• The same main campus for two universities• A multi-campus university• A university system• A university cradle• A multiversity

Definition attempt

"A campus where two or more distant educational institutions cooperate with each other and local development agencies to create new educational and training opportunities in a locality deprived of such opportunities“

(Prof Rex Taylor, Director of University of Glasgow’s operations on Crichton Campus, presentation på Campus Skellefteå October 26th, 2005)

Campus Skellefteå

Learning Centre

Trätek

2000 students, some R&DAbout 120 univ-employed15 programs + 3 polytechnicsBusinesses, EU-projects

Universities at Campus Varberg

Study counseling

Applied research

Business startup project

Project ideas, management, administration

Library Student union

Adult education

About Campus Varberg:

(outside Gothenburg, Sweden)

9 university programs

4 polytechnical programs

1100 students

Was formed 2003

Polytechnical educations

Learning centre

CUC Falmouth

Tremough Campus, Falmouth

Cornwall/UK

CUC= “Combined Universities Cornwall” (coordination organisation)

PaC – “recipe”

• >1 regional university with decentralised F2F (face-to-face) classes

• Learning centre with support to flexible learning students• Local R&D, development projects, mm• Vocational and polytechnical education • Science Park, Business labs & business startup• Local coordination organisation needed• Local construction and ownership of buildings and

infrastructure? Or is there an older useful infrastructure?

= concentration of development factors in one place, a PaC – representing the direction towards the future?

Partnership Campus?= Learning centre?

= University branch campus?

• Is a PaC an overgrown learning centre, XL?

• Is a PaC a university campus formed on local initiative??

• Is PaC a flexible environment for universities to reach out?

Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

And the other way around:

..there are no future-confident regions that lack higher education, research and innovation?

Lets add scale…

Guangzhou Mega Education City

• In the first free economic zone in China - population growth from 30 000 to 15 millions in 30 years

Start 2005: 10 000 students, soon 120 000, Finally 350 000 – 400 000 studentsSun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, South China Normal University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Xinghai Conservatory of Music Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Lets add culture collisions

Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver, Canada (gnwc.ca)

University of British Columbia

Started for colliding university cultures in superb media education?

Or add more research?

Seinäjoki Campus, Finland

Kajaani

Pori

Lahti

Mikkeli

Kokkola

…other

MUC / Univ consortia

And the US?

USA

PaC PROBLEM AREAS

• PaC is very dependent on the universities• If the PaC cannot attract additional students and

money, no university is interested• A PaC has often more education than research• A PaC can become expensive for the local

region/city – their ambition can be bigger than the ambitions of the universities

• A PaC is hard to understand at first glance

PaC POSSIBILITIES

• Very flexible through cooperation with different universities

• A way for regions without a university to offer good local education possibilities

• The connection between local/regional development and education offerings can be strong

• Synergy effects between universities possible• If one university leaves, another can be connected• The PaC recruits mostly students that won´t move to a

big campus – and these students will often stay in the area after exam –if, but only if, there are jobs…

Alternatives for local representation of a

university on a partnership campus • Research and teaching department?• Regional office? • Research group?• Only educations?• Franchise construction?• Subcontractor?

…or rely more or less on a coordination organisation?(federation of universities or local development

organisation)

University-University-relations on a PaC

• Parallelism?• Coordination?• Cooperation?• Competition?• Coopetition?

• Vertical relation – to mother university• Horisontal relation – to other universities and

stakeholders on the Partnership Campus

Policy agreement?

Common goals?

Contract?

Deal?

Silent coexistence?

Open warfare?

Let´s add differentiation of education

Qatar Education City

Formed for differentiation of education in the county?

Coordination and support organisation is the Qatar Foundation

Qatar Education City

…”Khalifa University”?

Let´s add the competitive and commercial forces

Dubai Academic CityAmerican University in the EmiratesBirla Institute of Technology & Science PilaniCambridge College International Dubai

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), European University College BrusselsFrench Fashion University EsmodHeriot-Watt University Dubai CampusHult International Business SchoolInstitute of Management TechnologyIslamic Azad UniversityJSS Education FoundationMahatma Gandhi UniversityMAHE, Manipal-Dubai CampusManchester Business School WorldwideMichigan State University Dubai (MSU Dubai)Middlesex University, Dubai CampusMurdoch University International Study Centre DubaiPIM International CenterS P Jain Center of ManagementSAE InstituteSaint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and EconomicsShaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST)Syrian Virtual UniversityThe British University in DubaiThe University of ExeterThe University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD)Universitas 21 Global Pte LtdUniversity of Phoenix

”Tax Free Zone”

–´for education and research

- Universities can apply online…

- A ”university hotel”?

+ Sarawak campus

Let´s add strategic ambitions

But what´s in it for universities?

• Specialisation of research in global competition makes a university handicapped in broadness of local education offerings

• Possibility to concentrate on focus areas in teaching • Possibility to share campus service and infrastructure

costs• In some countries – easier to get funding for cooperation• No-one questions cooperation and competition

(”coopetition”) for quality in research – now education is next

PaC now also in development hotspots

Universities of New York (city and state) in ranking order (US News)

Cornell UniversityColumbia University in the City of New YorkNew York UniversityUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New YorkCUNY SystemRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSyracuse UniversityRochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity of RochesterFordham UniversityUniversity at Albany, State University of New YorkStony Brook UniversityThe New SchoolBinghamton University State University of New YorkBuffalo State CollegePace UniversityHofstra UniversityVassar CollegeIthaca CollegeClarkson UniversityUnited States Military AcademyLong Island University SystemNew York Institute of TechnologyState University of New York at New PaltzMount Sinai School of MedicineThe Rockefeller UniversityPratt InstituteUnion CollegeHobart and William Smith CollegesBard CollegeBarnard CollegeColgate UniversityThe Culinary Institute of AmericaHamilton CollegeBerkeley CollegeIona CollegeThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtCanisius CollegeNew York Law SchoolHartwick CollegeDowling CollegeNiagara UniversityManhattan CollegeD'Youville CollegeManhattanville CollegeThe College of New RochelleDaemen College

Elmira CollegeMedaille CollegeHilbert CollegeSt. John's UniversityFashion Institute of TechnologyMarist CollegeYeshiva UniversityState University of New York at OswegoSUNY CortlandThe State University of New York at PotsdamPurchase College, State University of New YorkSkidmore CollegeSUNY GeneseoSchool of Visual ArtsSUNY College at OneontaSt. Lawrence UniversitySUNY Empire State CollegeAdelphi UniversityThe College at BrockportSarah Lawrence CollegeThe Juilliard SchoolSUNY PlattsburghSUNY FredoniaMonroe CollegeAlfred UniversityBryant & Stratton CollegeSiena CollegeLe Moyne CollegeWagner CollegeMercy CollegeSt John Fisher CollegeSUNY Upstate Medical UniversityTouro CollegeSUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestrySUNY Downstate Medical CenterAlbany Medical CollegeSaint Bonaventure UniversitySt. Joseph's CollegeFarmingdale State CollegeNew York Medical CollegeThe Sage CollegesNazareth CollegeState University of New York Institute of TechnologySUNY College of Technology at AlfredLehman CollegeUnited States Merchant Marine AcademyBrooklyn Law School

Marymount Manhattan CollegeThe College of Saint RoseUtica CollegeSUNY DelhiBaruch CollegeHoughton CollegeMount Saint Mary CollegeSUNY College at Old WestburySt. Francis CollegeLIM CollegeMolloy CollegeBrooklyn CollegeBank Street College of EducationSUNY Maritime CollegeKeuka CollegeDominican CollegeWells CollegeRoberts Wesleyan CollegeCazenovia CollegeNyack CollegeSt. Thomas Aquinas CollegeNew York Academy of ArtVaughn College of Aeronautics and TechnologyPaul Smith's CollegeConcordia College-New YorkCollege of Mount Saint VincentHunter CollegeSUNY College of OptometryNew York School of Interior DesignNew York College of Podiatric MedicineBoricua CollegeManhattan School of MusicAlbany Law SchoolSUNY CobleskillSUNY CantonBriarcliffe CollegeMetropolitan College of New YorkFive Towns CollegeAlbany College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesWebb InstituteJohn Jay College of Criminal JusticeVilla Maria CollegeYork College / CUNYThe City College of New YorkQueens CollegeThe Graduate Center, The City University of New YorkDavis CollegeNew York City College of TechnologyLong Island University-Brooklyn CampusMedgar Evers CollegeCollege of Staten IslandLong Island University - C.W. PostCUNY School of Law

“To maintain its economic diversity and remain competitive in the21st Century economy, the City must expand its applied sciences capabilities, and as a global business and academic capital with more than 626,000 post-secondary students, it is poised to do so.” (from RFP)

Why NY Tech Campus for applied science and engineering?

“A Respondent to this RFP may include more than one Institution as well as one or more other organizations. (…)NYCEDC prefers that any Respondent that is otherwise based outside of the United States include at least one Institution that is based in the United States.” (From RFP)

The institutions that submitted Expressions of Interest are:

• Åbo Akademi University, Finland • Amity University, India • Carnegie Mellon University with Steiner Studios • Cornell University • Columbia University and the City University of New York • The Cooper Union • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea • New York University, Carnegie Mellon, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto,

and IBM • The New York Genome Center, with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University

Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the Jackson Laboratory

• Purdue University • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Stanford University • The Stevens Institute of Technology • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel • The University of Chicago • The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

My own speculations

• Are PaC:s one component in a new education logistics paradigm, characterised not by

• Place, distance, distribution• But by global social knowledge processes

involving places – Blended learning?– Increasingly specialised universities?– More community and business involvement?– Much better access to education?

Questions? Problems? Possibilites?

Future?

• Will most knowledge environments in the future be of a multi-university kind?

Thanks for listening!Thanks for listening!

Anders.norberg@skelleftea.se

Anders.norberg@gmail.com

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