Cal Poly Pomona has intensified its cooperation with sister institutions in the system during the past decade, in pan-departmental and —disciplinary assessment and planning meetings, in regional articulation conferences, and in Academic Senate and California Faculty Association actions. We have also formed ad hoc and permanent consortia with regional institutions for the study of faculty orientation, improvement of international student services and international programs, technological enhancements, student transfer articulation, and various other projects. The university belongs to a long list of national and international educational organizations, as a university, (e.g., the Consortium for International Development, based in Tucson, the College Consortium for International Studies, the Southern California Consortium for International Studies, National Student Exchange, and many others), and individual students, faculty, staff, and administrators are active on an even longer list of such organizations, embracing professional or scholarly, service-oriented, political, and community profiles and involving voluntary and paid participation.

The university’s outreach activities are addressed in other sections of this theme. However, the committee felt it noteworthy that, as we have grown in our interest and expertise in local and global community matters, we have also come to be a better partner to other institutions in their effort to contribute to people’s lives and learning. Cal Poly Pomona personnel are to be commended for their increasing level of attendance and participation (presentations, panels, etc.) at conferences of such organizations as AAHE, IRHE, AIR, NCHEMS, AAC, AAC&U, ACTP, HERI, and so on.