In this column, we'd like to stretch your mind a bit with some facts and possibilities. Get a pencil and mark your answers to these scenarios. Following a meeting of academic leaders from Romania and the U.S. several large public American universities plan to take steps to foster more academic cooperation with institutions in Romania. The materials are put online and used by all participating institutions. Students enroll in the institution of their choice.
Faculty teach students from any of the participating institutions.
The collaboration is so popular that other colleges beg to join the project. The universities will form the Cambridge-M.I.T. Institute, which will involve departments and faculties at both institutions. The institute will not have a physical site. F P A teacher working outside the Adventist system develops a graduate level online course that is offered for credit from an Adventist institution and from a public university. She shares the course materials for other professors to use or for other universities to offer as their course.