NITLE partners with organizations that share its belief that liberal education plays a key role in creating the leaders, thinkers, and problem-solvers the world needs. We seek to partner with those committed to helping liberal arts colleges and universities develop students into curious, creative, life-long learners. We see effective partnerships as essential to our mission: helping liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology to create transformational, student-centered learning experiences that enable graduates to make a difference.

Organizations interested in partnering with NITLE should contact Michael Nanfito, NITLE’s associate director of strategy, at mnanfito@nitle.org or (253) 318-8742.

Our Partners

Academic Commons

www.academiccommons.org »
Academic Commons is a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated?

Boston Library Consortium

www.blc.org »
The Boston Library Consortium, an association of 17 academic and research libraries located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, is dedicated to sharing human and information resources to advance the research and learning of its constituency. Founded in 1970, the Consortium supports resource sharing and enhancement of services to users through programs in cooperative collecting, access to electronic resources and physical collections, and enhanced interlibrary loan and document delivery. Find out more about this partnership at http://bnn-symposium.org/.

CLOCKSS

www.clockss.org »
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.

CLOCKSS is for the entire world’s benefit. Content no longer available from any publisher (“triggered content”) is available for free. CLOCKSS uniquely assigns this abandoned and orphaned content with a creative commons license to ensure it remains available, forever.

ESRI

www.esri.com »
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

www.methodisthealth.com/tmhri »
Following The Methodist Hospital’s long tradition of research conducted by physician-scientists, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) offers a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to finding new treatments for human diseases. THMRI is also committed to commercializing discoveries, as many advances in clinical care come from the wide availability of new therapies and devices. In the last few years, essential research infrastructure—including over 500,000 square feet of modern research space that is either in service or under construction—has been added to THMRI facilities, where over 700 clinical trials are currently being conducted with more than 900 credentialed investigators.

Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP)

nercomp.org »
NERCOMP enables the informed use of information technology by providing affordable access to educational opportunities, software licensing discount programs, professional networking and collaborative opportunities to its Member network. NERCOMP’s mission is to enhance the communication and dissemination of information related to the use of computers, networks and information technology in education, academic research and educational administration throughout the northeastern United States. NERCOMP is an affiliate of EDUCAUSE. Find out more about this partnership at http://bnn-symposium.org/.

Teachers Without Borders

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Teachers Without Borders (TWB) connects teachers to information and each other to create local change on a global scale. Its activities are conceived and run by educators and local leaders who best understand the requirements and goals of their colleagues and communities. Based upon this premise, TWB provides free courses, resources, and tools to help teachers around the world learn, connect, collaborate, and create online, in schools or community centers, and in workshops and seminars. TWB removes barriers to availability, accessibility, acceptability, and adaptability, through high-teach, high-tech, and high-touch programs and platforms. Using technology as an accelerator, TWB advances learning by building teacher communities.