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Alliance comprises Eckerd College, New College of Florida, Ringling College of Art and Design, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, the University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee and The Ringling/FSU.
Six local institutions announced on Wednesday a formal partnership that could create expanded learning and networking opportunities for up to 18,000 area college students, not to mention faculty members, investors and prospective employers.
In a rebranding effort now formalized by an official memorandum of agreement, and with the assistance of local nonprofits, the new Cross College Alliance is converting longstanding informal ties into a more sustainable model it hopes will generate innovation on multiple levels.
The move also means that New College of Florida, Ringling College of Art & Design, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, and Ringling Museum/Florida State University are losing their somewhat cumbersome previous collective moniker — the Consortium of Colleges on the Creative Coast, or C4, a name given when the cooperative arrangement was first touted in January 2016.
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