Impact Annual Report: Learnings & Highlights

Traditionally colleges and universities compete with each other. They compete for students, state resources, for research grants,and on the field. Higher education is constructed to be a system that is not inherently trusting and strongly proprietary. However, the member institutions of the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities: Florida International University, University of Central Florida and University of South Florida have a shared commitment to college access and affordability.

The member universities of the Florida Consortium are like three clocks on a wall set to different times. While they are all working toward the same goals and outcomes, they are different places in expertise and needs. The desire to work together requires a level of trust and coordination that is seldom found on single campuses, let alone multiple campuses. Each university has unique policies and procedures built for their environments. Moreover, faculty and staff have built programs and courses they are individually proud of, and the never ending need to compete for ever shrinking resources makes coming to a consensus challenging and yet, we have found a lot of common ground. Review highlights from our work together thus far:

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