Can Academic Partnerships in Technical Communication Work?: Lessons from Minnesota
http://www.cptsc.org/conferences/2003/abstracts_03_a-f_1.htm#Black
  peer-reviewed

Black, Suzanne
CPTSC Proceedings
2003

Abstract:

Interuniversity partnerships are widely encouraged as a way for public universities to pool increasingly scarce resources, to minimize duplication of academic programs, and to cooperate rather than compete. Joint programs in technical communication have not been widely studied, but they seem especially logical for several reasons.