LibraryC3 Cultural system3b Status and parity
LTI-CUL-011
Establish shared, co-located facilities on partner campuses
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Both institutions build and staff a shared off-campus center, so people from each work near each other daily. Proximity does more to level the status hierarchy than any statement about partnership.
Preconditions
An MOU covering facilities, cost allocation and staffing.
Owner, by role
Chief Facilities Officer / Vice President of Student Affairs
Who can act
Both institutions jointly
Effort
Large, 18 to 24 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Weekly cross-institutional collaboration hours; joint programming
Failure modes
Physical spaces can become underutilized or segregated if staff are pulled back to their main campuses to handle local workloads.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-CUL-012 Create a physical University Center for partner baccalaureate presence