“…Higher education collaborations -such as strategic alliances, joint ventures, university collaborations, partnerships or mergers --provide an opportunity to solve challenging issues by conferring resources, knowledge, and skills, leveraging structure and support (Eddy, 2010;Pinheiro et al, 2016;Valmeekanathan et al, 2021) of involved partners to achieve common objectives. These collaborations in higher education take place in many forms, such as between or among institutions as a whole, as departmental collaborations across institutions, or as university programs that join forces with businesses, communities or NGOs (Eddy, 2010).…”