STRENGTHS
- Solve many of the liability issues
- SOP across campuses
throughout the region
- Assures quality administration
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Assurance that campuses are being fiscally responsible
- Makes
better business sense
- Stimulates more participation if
standards are established up front – especially faculty
- Makes
it easier for students to participate
- Encourages cross
registration
- Standardized forms
- Improved communication
between campuses
- Establishing central offices
- Fixed
responsibility in terms of liability
- Helps with recruitment
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Possibility of a regional financial aid fund for study abroad
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WEAKNESSES
- Communication difficulty between campuses
- Inertia
toward inter-campus cooperation
- Resistance of faculty
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Bureaucracy
- Liability
- Cost of establishing central offices
- No fund to
do advancements
- Pre-billing
- Reduce student participation
because of confusion/lack of info
- Failure to process
paperwork in timely manner
- Ability to cooperate on holds on
student accounts (outstanding funds) from home institution
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Inability to enforce student responsibility
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OPPORTUNITIES
- Presidential leadership to establish cooperation
- Work through VTC
- Bringing together participating offices
(including FA, Admission, faculty, etc. on campus teams)
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Potential for new grants/external funding
- Linking with other
international organizations/military in the local area
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Increased opportunities for students
Pooling resources: joining programs + avoiding redundancy
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THREATS
- Difficulty getting on presidents’ agenda
- Approval process for
streamlining forms and procedures
- Lack of resources
- Future
budget cuts
- Current world affairs/international crisis
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Universities are on different financial footing (private vs. public)
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Lack of central offices on many of consortium campuses
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Institutional competition for dollars
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