ABSTRACT
As the world’s academic knowledge base expands, no one can afford to be left out. While colleges and universities are structured both to create and to teach new knowledge to students, until recently, that meant only students who came to the college or university to study. Now colleges and universities can take their resources to the students. In developed economies, and in the major urban centres of developing countries, regardless of the physical location of an individual, he or she is most likely reachable electronically. However, just reaching someone is not all there is to making new knowledge usable. As a college or university moves from serving students on the campus to serving them beyond the campus, there are many adjustments that need to be made. Not only must faculty members change what they do, but many other individuals serving students must also change their activities. None of these changes are simple or inexpensive when, in the midst of change, everyone must also remain engaged in maintaining high-level academic and support services to the students on the campus. With that in mind, universities and colleges are finding ways to form strategic alliances with others to make the costs of these transitions feasible.
