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 Learning centres Branch campuses Main campus International campus …and there are 17000+ universities… (source:Webometrics)

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&D About 120 univ-employed 15 programs + 3 polytechnics Businesses, EU-projects Learning Centre Trätek

(outside Gothenburg, Sweden) About Campus Varberg: (outside Gothenburg, Sweden) 9 university programs 4 polytechnical programs 1100 students Was formed 2003 Universities at Campus Varberg Applied research Study counseling Adult education Project ideas, management, administration Polytechnical educations Business startup project Library Student union Learning centre

CUC Falmouth Tremough Campus, Falmouth Cornwall/UK CUC= “Combined Universities Cornwall” (coordination organisation) Tremough Campus, Falmouth Cornwall/UK

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 students Sun 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 Coordination and support organisation is the Qatar Foundation Formed for differentiation of education in the county?

Qatar Education City …”Khalifa University”?

Let´s add the competitive and commercial forces

Dubai Academic City ”Tax Free Zone” –´for education and research American University in the Emirates Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani Cambridge College International Dubai Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), European University College Brussels French Fashion University Esmod Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus Hult International Business School Institute of Management Technology Islamic Azad University JSS Education Foundation Mahatma Gandhi University MAHE, Manipal-Dubai Campus Manchester Business School Worldwide Michigan State University Dubai (MSU Dubai) Middlesex University, Dubai Campus Murdoch University International Study Centre Dubai PIM International Center S P Jain Center of Management SAE Institute Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Syrian Virtual University The British University in Dubai The University of Exeter The University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) Universitas 21 Global Pte Ltd University 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) Marymount Manhattan College The College of Saint Rose Utica College SUNY Delhi Baruch College Houghton College Mount Saint Mary College SUNY College at Old Westbury St. Francis College LIM College Molloy College Brooklyn College Bank Street College of Education SUNY Maritime College Keuka College Dominican College Wells College Roberts Wesleyan College Cazenovia College Nyack College St. Thomas Aquinas College New York Academy of Art Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Paul Smith's College Concordia College-New York College of Mount Saint Vincent Hunter College SUNY College of Optometry New York School of Interior Design New York College of Podiatric Medicine Boricua College Manhattan School of Music Albany Law School SUNY Cobleskill SUNY Canton Briarcliffe College Metropolitan College of New York Five Towns College Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Webb Institute John Jay College of Criminal Justice Villa Maria College York College / CUNY The City College of New York Queens College The Graduate Center, The City University of New York Davis College New York City College of Technology Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus Medgar Evers College College of Staten Island Long Island University - C.W. Post CUNY School of Law Universities of New York (city and state) in ranking order (US News) Why NY Tech Campus for applied science and engineering? Cornell University Columbia University in the City of New York New York University University at Buffalo, State University of New York CUNY System Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Syracuse University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester Fordham University University at Albany, State University of New York Stony Brook University The New School Binghamton University State University of New York Buffalo State College Pace University Hofstra University Vassar College Ithaca College Clarkson University United States Military Academy Long Island University System New York Institute of Technology State University of New York at New Paltz Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Rockefeller University Pratt Institute Union College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Bard College Barnard College Colgate University The Culinary Institute of America Hamilton College Berkeley College Iona College The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Canisius College New York Law School Hartwick College Dowling College Niagara University Manhattan College D'Youville College Manhattanville College The College of New Rochelle Daemen College Elmira College Medaille College Hilbert College St. John's University Fashion Institute of Technology Marist College Yeshiva University State University of New York at Oswego SUNY Cortland The State University of New York at Potsdam Purchase College, State University of New York Skidmore College SUNY Geneseo School of Visual Arts SUNY College at Oneonta St. Lawrence University SUNY Empire State College Adelphi University The College at Brockport Sarah Lawrence College The Juilliard School SUNY Plattsburgh SUNY Fredonia Monroe College Alfred University Bryant & Stratton College Siena College Le Moyne College Wagner College Mercy College St John Fisher College SUNY Upstate Medical University Touro College SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry SUNY Downstate Medical Center Albany Medical College Saint Bonaventure University St. Joseph's College Farmingdale State College New York Medical College The Sage Colleges Nazareth College State University of New York Institute of Technology SUNY College of Technology at AlfredLehman College United States Merchant Marine Academy Brooklyn Law School “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) “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! Anders.norberg@skelleftea.se Anders.norberg@gmail.com

Western Governors University Peer-to-peer university University of the people Free University of Liverpool

Not planned as a MUC, but similar ambitions

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