STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: AN OVERVIEW

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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AN OVERVIEW

• Charles R. Bantz
• Chancellor, IUPUI
• Executive Vice President, Indiana University
• American Council for Education
• February 9, 2008

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OUTLINE

• Goals for International Partnerships
• Traditional Partnerships
• Strategic Partnerships
• An Organic Example Moi U-IUPUI
• Different Relationships
• Generative/Transformational

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GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

• For Students, Faculty, Staff
• Learning opportunities
• Research and creative opportunities
• Civic engagement opportunities
• Personal development
• Civic education
• Institution building

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TRADITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS ARE OFTEN

• Solo enterprises
• Single unit in each institution
• One individual in each institution
• Built on Intellectual-Social Serendipity Networks
  
• Entrepreneurial
• Not formalized in MOU
• Fragile

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WHAT ARE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS?

• Formalized agreements that align some strategic
  goals of two or more institutions.
• The activity can be multi-unit, multi-party,
  multi-level, multi-discipline.

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LIKELY CHARACTERISTICS OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS?

• May be initiated by individual or team.
• May be stimulated by university leadership.
• Likely to involve multiple units within each
  institution.
• Must be formalized by institutions.

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ORGANIC EXAMPLE MOI UNIVERSITY AND IUPUI

• May be initiated by individual or team.
• Champions in Medicine at Moi and Indiana 1990
• May be stimulated by university leadership.
• Moi and IU Medicine
• Likely to involve multiple units within each
  institution.
• Departments, Residency, Undergraduate MD
• Must be formalized by institutions.

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ORGANIC EXAMPLE MOI UNIVERSITY AND IUPUI

• Transformation AIDS/HIV 2000
• Required more partners/specialties
• Required greater numbers
• Required new infrastructure
• AMPATH

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ORGANIC EXAMPLE MOI UNIVERSITY AND IUPUI

• Transformation Strategic Alliance 2006
• Multi-disciplinary
• More exchanges
• Building infrastructure

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THESE CHARACTERISTICS CREATE DIFFERENT
RELATIONSHIPS
INSTEAD OF A SIMPLE 2-WAY RELATIONSHIP
IUPUI
Moi University
LINKS TIE TO EACH OTHER WITHIN AND ACROSS
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THESE CHARACTERISTICS CREATE DIFFERENT
RELATIONSHIPS

• Instead of a simple line connectinga web network
  with multiple nodes
• 4th year MD student contacting friends
• No single source of information
• Web creates greater opportunity for leveraging
  (like the WWW)
• Quickly generated resources
• As the network grows, linkages multiply,
  opportunities for learning multiply
• Not only from partners known, but new partners
• Creates environment for equity even when
  resources are not equal
• Operating as scholars together

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THESE RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE GENERATIVE/TRANSFORMATI
ONAL

• Creating new projects beyond original effort.
• Extend international experience to larger circle
  of disciplines.
• Engaging a larger set of faculty, students, and
  staff than original effort.
• Involving communities.
• Focusing resources to sustain. relationship
  beyond their creators.

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CONCLUSIONS

• Strategic Partnerships
• Can Be High Risk
• Are Multiform
• Require Institutional Commitment
• Offer Great Reward
• Can Transform and Make a Difference

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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Thanks Comments Please Charles R.
Bantz cbantz_at_iupui.edu
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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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• Enable faculty who know little about the partner
  country or have no international background to
  become involved
• Build complex understandings of the partner
  country that deepens over time
• Enable faculty to share or trade courses and
  class sessions
• Impact student learning across the curriculum,
  even in courses not directly connected to the
  partnership
• Build strong platforms for study abroad, in both
  directions
• Spark joint research on new topics as faculty
  come to know each other
• Involve administrators and staff (in addition to
  faculty)
• Give each partner a long-term base of operations
  in the other country
• Focus and prioritize campus internationalization
  efforts
• Create economies of scale and synergies of effort
• Establish defined concentrations of activity that
  attract external funding
• Model the cross-national competencies we want
  students to learn
• Provide a base for community engagement on both
  sides