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AN HISTORICAL PRÉCIS OF THE CAEC Linda
Hunt-Williams The impetus for developing a Charlotte Area Educational Consortium (Consortium) in 1967 was the vision of the original nine members to establish an inter-institutional exchange program that enabled students to take classes at member institutions for credit in their home institutions. This program, still operating today, enabled the nine institutional members, in the spirit of educational excellence, to expand their class offerings to the limit of what was offered throughout the Consortium. Broad based collaborative educational coordination was a tool imagined by the original nine members to better the educational opportunities of a growing economic region. The original nine members were:
By late 1968 they were beginning to organize and in June 1969 the presidents of the nine institutions met together to coordinate Consortium activities and became known as the Board of Directors. In October 1969, the Board of Directors met again with a group comprised of one or two appointed administrative or faculty representatives from each of the member institutions; this representational group became know as the Council. The Council then elected an Executive Committee who acted as the liaison between the Board of Directors and the Council. Today, the Board of Directors meets once a year and the Executive Committee and the Council meet at least twice a year -- spring and fall -- to plan the year's activities. The actual public birth of the Consortium occurred in February 19, 1969. A Statement of Goals and Purposes was adopted in February 1971; by-laws, in December 1972. An indication of how the Consortium has maintained its original vision can be illustrated by the earliest introduction of the Consortium to the Metrolina by an article in The Charlotte Observer, February 20, 1969. That article stated what is still true today, the Consortium is ". . . striving to promote meetings between professors of the same discipline teaching at the member schools. . . ." planning ". . . area academic programs sponsored jointly by the consortium, making possible specialized courses that no one school would have the personnel or finances to support." The consortium is appealing to ". . . the small private schools. . . whose limited budgets have tended to constrict the number of course offerings." Since its introduction the Consortium has grown to a membership of 23 colleges and universities and has developed and sponsored numerous activities that still today maintain the early goals of the infant Consortium that envisioned "Collaborative Excellence in Education."
Frankie Darlington. 1986. A Brief History of the [sic]
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