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PROJECT: Lead Institution (Managing Partner)
Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (Great Plains IDEA)
The Great Plains IDEA is an award-winning multi-state alliance of Human Sciences Colleges that was founded in 1994 as a means to create a marketplace for sharing distance education courses and programs at the graduate level. Combining today’s emerging technologies with program-based alliances, it utilizes the growing field of distance education to connect students around the country and afford them the opportunity to be admitted to one member institution and study at other member institutions via Internet-based courses.

Kansas State University was selected to be the first Great Plains IDEA lead institution (managing partner) in 2003. This is a five-year, renewable appointment. The IAA staff carry out the following reponsibilities:

1. Oversee Financial Management
2. Manage Alliance Records
3. Coordinate Alliance Communications
4. Support Alliance Governance
5. Support Campus Coordinators and Other Institutional Participants
6. Support Alliance Academic Programs
7. Other Responsibilities as Requested

The Request for Proposals (RFP) for Great Plains IDEA Lead Institution and a full description of the Lead Institution responsibilities are available at: http://www.gpidea.org/alliance/ResourceCenter/LeadInstitutionRFP.pdf

For further information see the 2004 Great Plains IDEA Lead Institution Annual Report.