1. Ed Miller Oklahoma State University

2.  4-year students  Graduate students  Working professionals  Businesses  Education/government  Internationals

3.  Outstanding courses/professors.  Personal growth.  Degrees and certificates.  Continuing education.  Emerging disciplines.  Employer requirements.

4.  Income opportunities.  Stretching faculty resources.  Emerging fields of study.  Best experts across institutions.  Maintaining low enrollment programs.  Interdisciplinary programs.

5.  Within and among institutional administrations.  Those associated with academics.

6.  Engaging the chief financial officers.  In-state/out-of-state tuition.  Revenues and actual program costs.  Where does the money go?  Who will manage the program?  Student records.  Faculty compensation.

7.  Course exchanges.  Degrees and certificates.  Curricular design.  Quality of instruction.  Faculty status.  Reviews and assessment.

8.  Legal requirements.  Financial arrangements.  Exchanging student records.  Equity in compensation.  Conflict resolution.  Timely communications.  Course, program and instructor assessment.  Faculty appointments in T,R,& E.

9.  Need for the program / steady demand.  Strength in multi-institution cooperation.  Enthusiastic leadership.  Supportive faculty colleagues.  Progressive administrations.  Selecting good partners.

10.  Eager faculty and administrators.  Commitment to outreach education.  Existing connections.  Similar institutional characteristics.  Complementary faculty:  Expertise.  Philosophy.  Workloads.  Abilities.

11.  Initial work starts at the faculty level.  Third party management often follows.  KSU Institute for Academic Alliances:  Great Plains IDEA consortium.  Ag IDEA consortium.  Others.

12.  Anderson, Moxley, Maes and Reinert.  Kansas State Institute for Academic Alliances. Multi- institutional Academic Programs: Deal Makers and Dealbreakers. Continuing Higher Education Review, Vol. 72, 2008.  Institute for Academic Alliances. Occasional Papers. Moxleys Maxims:  Consortium Financial Matters.  Developing Institutional Support.  Alliance Leadership.