The Birth, Growth and Future of the Multi-University / Partnership Campus Concept

1. The Birth, Growth and Future of the Multi-University / Partnership Campus Concept Anders Norberg, Education Analyst Umeå University

2. What is a ”partnership campus”? • …or a multi-university campus? • …or a multi-institutional campus? Well, it is not… • The same main campus for two universities • A multi-campus university • A university system • A multiversity • A university in the making

3. Definition attempt "A campus where two or more distant educational institutions cooperate with each other and local development agencies to create new educational and training opportunities in a locality deprived of such opportunities“ (Prof Rex Taylor, Director of University of Glasgow’s operations on Crichton Campus, presentation på Campus Skellefteå October 26th, 2005)

4. A MODERN HYBRID LEARNING ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT

6. About Campus Varberg: (outside Gothenburg, Sweden) 9 university programs 4 polytechnical programs 1100 students Was formed 2003 Universities at Campus Varberg Applied research Adult education Study counseling Project ideas, management, administration Business startup project Student union Library Polytechnical educations

7. Campus Skellefteå 1500 students, some R&D About 120 univ-employed 15 programs + 3 polytechnics Businesses, EU-projects Learning Centre Trätek

9. The establishment of CUC: the partners

10. CUC Falmouth CUC= “Combined Universities Cornwall” (coordination organisation) Tremough Campus, Falmouth Cornwall/UK

12. Seinäjoki Campus, Finland Kajaani Pori Lahti Mikkeli Kokkola …other MUC / Univ consortia

13. USA • University centers • Joint-use facilities

14. Not planned as a MUC, but similar ambitions

15. Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE And the other way around: ..there are no future-confident regions that lack higher education, research and innovation?

18. MUC – “recipe” • >1 regional university with decentralised F2F (face-to-face) classes • Learning centre with support to flexible learning students • Local R&D, development projects, mm • Vocational and polytechnical education • Science Park, Business labs & business startup • Local coordination organisation needed • Local construction and ownership of buildings and infrastructure? Or is there an older useful infrastructure? = concentration of development factors in one place, a MUC – representing the direction towards the future?

19. Multi-University-Campus/Learning centre/Branch university campus? • Is a MUC an overgrown learning centre, XL? • Is a MUC a university campus formed on local initiative??

20. MUC – backgrounds? • The belief in higher education and research as a necessary component in all modern regional development • The ambition to develop a better educated population in the region • More of “mature” university students, who are stuck where they live • New technology for education distribution makes almost everything possible • Universities become more and more specialised, one university does not “know everything” any longer (if ever) – they need each others help for good quality of broad education …and of course: New universities are not often established any longer in Europe and the US, they merge and cooperate and distribute over more places instead. Is the building of a MUC an ambition to represent the knowledge society in a physical way in the infrastructure of a local town?

21. MUC PROBLEM AREAS • MUC is very dependent on the universities • If the MUC cannot attract additional students, no university is interested • A MUC has often more education than research • A MUC can become expensive for the local region/city – their ambition can be bigger than the ambitions of the universities • A MUC is hard to understand at first glance

22. MUC POSSIBILITIES • Very flexible through cooperation with different universities • A way for regions without a university to offer good local education possibilities • MUC is very scalable, can be expanded fast • The connection between local/regional development and education offerings is strong • Synergy effects between universities possible • If one university leaves, another can be connected • The MUC recruits mostly students that won´t move to a big campus – and these students will often stay in the area after exam –if, but only if, there are jobs…

23. Alternatives for local representation of a university on a MUC • Research and teaching department? • Regional office? • Only educations? • Franchise construction? • Subcontractor?

24. University-University-relations on a MUC • Parallellity? • Coordination? • Cooperation? • Competition? • Vertical relation – to mother university • Horisontal relation – to other universities and stakeholders on the MU-Campus Policy agreement? Deal?

25. MUC - Alternative backgrounds • …the fastest way to establish and scale education access with good quality? • …a possibility to start and scale up fast, with brand labels and quality • …a platform for creative meetings between university cultures? • …an effective tool for differentiation of the regional education offerings

26. Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver, Canada (gnwc.ca) University of British Columbia Started for colliding university cultures in superb media education?

27. Qatar Education City Coordination and support organisation is the Qatar Foundation Formed for differentiation of education in the county?

28. Qatar Education City

29. Guangzhou Mega Education City In the first free economic zone in China - population growth from 30 000 to 15 millions in 30 years Start 2005: 10 000 students, soon 120 000, Finally 350 000 – 400 000 students Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, South China Normal University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Xinghai Conservatory of Music Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

32. Dubai Academic City American University in the Emirates Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani Cambridge College International Dubai Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), European University College Brussels French Fashion University Esmod Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus Hult International Business School Institute of Management Technology Islamic Azad University JSS Education Foundation Mahatma Gandhi University MAHE, Manipal-Dubai Campus Manchester Business School Worldwide Michigan State University Dubai (MSU Dubai) Middlesex University, Dubai Campus Murdoch University International Study Centre Dubai PIM International Center S P Jain Center of Management SAE Institute Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Syrian Virtual University The British University in Dubai The University of Exeter The University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) Universitas 21 Global Pte Ltd University of Phoenix • ”Tax Free Zone” • –´for education and research • Universities can apply online… • A ”university hotel”?

38. Internal driving forces towards the MUC concept for a university • …if research is seen as the main task, undergrads at site can be a nuisance • Specialisation of research in global competition makes a university handicapped in broadness of local education offerings • No-one questions cooperation and competition (”coopetition”) for quality in research – now education is next • Possibility to concentrate on focus areas in teaching

39. Questions? Problems? Possibilites? Future? • Will most education environments in the future become of a multi-university character? Not so unlikely….?!?