Project Colleague

Project Colleague aims to correct some of the obstacles to effective service and outreach.Through its Program on Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach, NERCHE learned that faculty are heavily engaged in work with the external community, but their efforts are largely individualistic and often invisible to their colleagues and institutions. Collaborative efforts are the exception rather than the rule. As a result, promising innovations are fettered by the inability of faculty to combine forces. By working together on projects with overlapping dimensions, benefits accrue to faculty, the institution, and the community faculty enrich their teaching and research and reduce their isolation through partnerships with colleagues and students; the community receives more efficient and comprehensive attention; the institution gains an effective tool to help repair its fractured culture.