Federal rules require that all applications for financial aid come from your school email address. Please email all questions related to financial assistance from your SFCC email account. Log in to JACK, attack the email account in the top right corner and create a new email with "financialaid@sfcc.edu" in the address bar. CCCU plans to support and encourage members of the online consortium to strategically develop collaborative majors like the ones Ericson hopes to establish, according to Ostrander. Students from both institutions were able to register and take courses at their home institution and complete their calendars via the online platform. Six members of this consortium, including John Brown, are also participating in a larger online course-sharing consortium organized by the Council of Independent Colleges. More than 50 colleges are in the process of joining and another 250 have expressed interest, according to Richard Ekman, president of CIC. If you would like to submit your documents electronically, please send an email to financialaid@sfcc.edu asking for a secure link. Ekman believes that CIC`s course exchange network – the largest of the university consortium platform – should primarily help institutions fill course gaps and expand opportunities to complete their calendars. Meanwhile, Ostrander believes the consortium can and should contribute to ambitious cooperation, as Ericson and his colleagues are doing. Even if they coexist on the same interface, any unionized relationship serves a particular purpose that may differ from others. Indeed, the growth potential of these agreements remains to be seen.
For the CIC consortium, Ekman hopes that a wide range of disciplines will be present in the consortium`s course offering. Otherwise, he said, the resource might not be reliable for a student who, shortly before graduation, realizes that he or she needs a more specific class that the home institution does not offer. To meet a growing need for graduates in programs such as nursing and technology, institutions face daunting costs for faculty and resources, said Janet Sommers, senior vice president of academic affairs at Northwestern-St. Paul, a member of the online consortium of Christian colleges. Nevertheless, Ekman wants the CIC consortium to be flexible in another way. He is currently negotiating with administrators of the North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities for the public system`s membership in the CIC network. Some of the institutions in the system that are not members of the ICC could pay higher fees to join the agreement, he said. College Consortium currently has 72 different active consortium agreements, according to Joshua Pierce, the company`s co-founder. The majority of these agreements exist between two institutions, often for the organization of a single course requested by a student. .
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