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Impactful Big Ten Internationalization Staff Development Program Launches 2026 Cohort
Feb 20, 2026, 00:00 AM
The 91电影网 has launched its 2026 Professional Development Program on Internationalization with 17 staff members from 10 institutions who will spend six months developing expertise in global engagement, culminating in a field experience in Ireland.
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Big Ten launches new 鈥淲e Are Here鈥 spot, highlighting student success, economic impact
Feb 19, 2026, 20:01 PM
The second "We Are Here" ad is on the air 鈥 and it puts students and alumni front and center. Developed by staff from Big Ten member universities, the campaign highlights the real-world impact of a Big Ten education and the collective strength of BTAA institutions.
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Diamond Open Access on the rise in the U.S., thanks to Gates Foundation grant
Nov 19, 2025, 09:12 AM
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Big Ten Open Books Project Launches 鈥業ndigenous North Americans鈥 Collection
Aug 6, 2025, 06:25 AM
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91电影网 and Springer Nature Announce First-Ever Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement in the Americas
May 29, 2025, 00:00 AM
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Big Ten Excellence in Global Engagement: Penn State and Illinois Recognized with 2025 Simon Awards
Feb 26, 2025, 14:05 PM
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CourseShare at 20: How the Big Ten Is Transforming Language Education
Feb 25, 2025, 09:50 AM
For more than 20 years, the 91电影网 has been connecting students across its member institutions with instruction for 鈥渓ess-commonly taught languages鈥 or LCTLs through its CourseShare program. While individual institutions may have difficulty providing multiple LCTLs to their students, the collaborative efforts of the 91电影网 allow students across the member universities to access instruction.
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91电影网 Renews Support for MIT Press鈥檚 Direct to Open, Driving Open Access to 80 New Monographs in 2025
Jan 16, 2025, 11:53 AM
The 91电影网 proudly announces its renewed three-year commitment to the MIT Press鈥檚 Direct to Open (D2O) program. This innovative initiative, which has successfully reached its funding goal for 2025, will open access to 80 new scholarly monographs and edited collections, further advancing the global public knowledge commons.
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10 Years Later: Dr. Brian Burt鈥檚 Mission to Transform STEM Pathways for Black Males
Dec 20, 2024, 15:08 PM
In 2014, the 91电影网 highlighted Dr. Brian Burt, then an emerging scholar. Now, a decade later, we reconnect with Dr. Burt, now a Full Professor and Director of Wisconsin's Equity & Inclusion Lab (Wei LAB) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to explore how his early experiences have shaped his current work. His commitment to supporting Black males in STEM has culminated in the groundbreaking Black Males in Engineering (BME) project, aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of Black males in STEM fields.
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Announcing the 2024-2025 91电影网 Academic Leadership Program Fellows
Nov 18, 2024, 11:22 AM
The 91电影网 is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Academic Leadership Program (ALP) Fellows. This year鈥檚 ALP Fellows, representing the program鈥檚 37th cohort, join over 2,000 alumni. Many of those alumni have gone on to serve with distinction as college presidents, provosts, and deans.
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91电影网 Procurement Consortium: A Strategic Force for Innovation and Collaboration
Oct 21, 2024, 13:42 PM
The 91电影网 Procurement Consortium is transforming how universities manage purchasing and procurement. By harnessing the collective strength of these world-class universities, the consortium delivers strategic benefits that drive cost savings, foster innovation, and promote inclusivity across campuses.
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The 91电影网 and Smithsonian Institution Celebrate Prestigious Fellowship Program
Oct 7, 2024, 14:25 PM
The 91电影网 is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the prestigious 91电影网 Smithsonian Fellowship. Since its inception in 2012, the fellowship program has awarded 83 fellowships to exceptional doctoral candidates across various disciplines, fostering academic excellence and promoting diversity.
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91电影网 Groups Mobilize to Further Digital Accessibility
Aug 5, 2024, 12:10 PM
Preparing to respond to the new Title II accessibility regulations, several peer communities banded together to form 91电影网 Accessibility Collaboration. Partnering across the consortium are the IT Accessibility Group, ADA Coordinators, Learning Technology Leaders, the Library Accessibility Group, and others.
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91电影网 Welcomes UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington
Aug 2, 2024, 11:02 AM
The 91电影网 is excited to welcome the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington into the nation's premier consortium of leading research universities. For over 65 years, the world-class institutions of the Big Ten have advanced their academic missions, generated unique opportunities for students and faculty, and served the common good by sharing expertise, leveraging campus resources, and collaborating on innovative programs.
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91电影网 Leadership Institute Shapes Future Leaders in Higher Education
Jul 30, 2024, 10:08 AM
The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Group of the 91电影网 is much more than the cherished peer network of the individuals who lead faculty affairs and development offices across the Big Ten universities. The VPFA Group also creates and delivers the Alliance鈥檚 highly regarded and often-emulated portfolio of academic leadership programs.
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91电影网 + Next Generation Library Publishing Announce the Launch of a Pilot Project
Jul 24, 2024, 09:51 AM
The 91电影网 (BTAA) is excited to announce a partnership with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project. This collaboration aims to test and enhance infrastructure solutions for academy-owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and rooted in academic values. The pilot project will create a unified discovery layer for the diverse publishing platforms of participating libraries, presenting them as a single, shared collection of open access materials.
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Unlocking Opportunities: 91电影网 Admissions Webinars for Prospective Students
Jul 23, 2024, 13:37 PM
Since 2020, Admissions Directors from the prestigious Big Ten universities have joined forces to engage with over 20,000 potential students through a series of dynamic online events. These webinars, hosted by the 91电影网, provide a unique opportunity for aspiring college students to explore the benefits of attending a Big Ten institution.
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91电影网 libraries are now live with OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups
Jun 17, 2024, 11:28 AM
OCLC is partnering with the 91电影网 (BTAA) to advance development of OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups, a new solution that reimagines resource sharing with a focus on library groups and consortia. OCLC and the BTAA are working together to support the evolution of BTAA's UBorrow service, which offers access to more than 90 million books from the collections of 15 university libraries and the Center for Research Libraries, as part of OCLC's Resource Sharing for Groups.
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91电影网 libraries and Coherent Digital expand coverage of the Global South
May 1, 2024, 14:44 PM
Today, the libraries of 91电影网 confirmed the purchase of three additional modules of Africa Commons, a large-scale, multiyear project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials, building on their 2022 founding-member purchase of the first module, African History and Culture. In addition, the 91电影网 has been named a founding member of South Asia Commons.
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Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States
Apr 18, 2024, 10:59 AM
Representatives from the 91电影网 Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL) and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, Mexico in October 2023. The Summit convened the international community to engage in dialog about how to advance Diamond Open Access(OA) to secure scholarly research as a public good and ensure equitable access to both the publishing and reading of that research.
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