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Colorado State University, Iowa State
University, Kansas State University, Texas Tech University
Michigan State University, University of Missouri, Montana State University, University
of Nebraska
North Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University,
South Dakota State University
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Friends of Great Plains IDEA
The purpose of the Great Plains IDEA “Friends” Award(s) is to honor individuals who have provided a significant contribution to the development and/or operation of the Great Plains IDEA. The individual may have strengthened any facet of the organization. Some examples include: development or improvement of the structure of the organization, development of new procedures, improving specific functions, heightening visibility of the alliance, implemented a new system for tracking information, extraordinary program leadership, etc.
Although the success of the alliance is the result of scores of people, the Great Plains IDEA Board of Directors would like to express a special thank you, to all the individuals who contributed nominations to the 1st Annual Friends of Great Plains IDEA Award program. Nominee selection of awarded recipients was decided by the Board of Directors of the Great Plains IDEA, based upon evaluations of submitted nominations.
- David Hilderbrand, retired South Dakota State University Graduate Dean, served as co-chair of the Graduate Deans during the FIPSE LAAP grant and was the primary drafter of what we now refer to as "the principles". Simply stated, these principles assured that the Great Plains IDEA would work from the following premises: 1) we would behave as equals; 2) we would make the student experience seamless; 3) we would accommodate diverse institutional cultures.
- His notion that we must operate on three "principles" and allow the detail to play out on home campuses was genius.
- A continued advocate of the work of the Great Plains IDEA, David made many valuable intellectual contributions to the Great Plains IDEA model.
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- While serving as Dean of Graduate Studies at Montana State University, Bruce McLeod became engaged with the initial efforts of the Great Plains IDEA group to develop the scalable model of collaborative distance education.
- He was actively engaged right from the start, working with other graduate deans to find common ground that would best serve the participating institutions as a whole, helping lead the efforts to compile the list of common principles for the Alliance.
- Bruce attended many meetings from 1999-2005 to plan how to best bring people and ideas together to meet program needs, from advertising and recruiting to protecting the transmittal of student information across seven campuses, while maintaining high academic quality, academic rigor, and institutional integrity in the academic delivery.
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- Ruth Williams has been associated with the Great Plains IDEA for close to a decade. During that time, she has made herself an indispensable contributor to the alliance.
- In the course of her work to support the alliance, Ruth became an expert on alliance building and an advocate for the Great Plains IDEA.
- Ruth has helped to improve the structure of the Great Plains IDEA; she has brought order to new procedures; she has improved specific functions (e.g. by-laws, policies, establishing new relationships with cooperating institutions such as Agriculture); she has heightened the visibility of the alliance through her work with us directly and with others interested in developing alliances too; she has helped us to implement new technical procedures; and she has provided great leadership.
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- A key developer of the Family Financial Planning Great Plains IDEA program. Dr. Cramer played a primary role in program assessment, approval and promotion at UNL.
- Sheran developed the original Certified Financial Planners submission materials, as well as the renewal materials, presented to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. for CFP Board registration of the Family Financial Planners Masters degree and Certificate programs.
- A designer, and instructor of Great Plains IDEA courses, Dr. Cramer offers top-notch, state-of-the-art online courses, which are models from others, and has received accolades from students, and decision makers such as Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman.
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- Antigone served on the Great Plains IDEA Board of Directors from 2001-2006, when she retired from CSU. The Great Plains IDEA was one of the first projects she tackled as she became Associate Dean of the College of Applied Human Sciences, and she bound the alliance with her understand and capitalization of the principals and policies of the Great Plains IDEA.
- The development of the centralized assessment system for the alliance and the leadership in implementation thereof can be credited in great part, to Antigone.
- Antigone facilitated the early stages of the merchandising program, as well as hosted board and faculty team meetings at CSU.
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- Joan had an early vision of an alliance about shared, inter-institutional programs, and implemented, engaged and worked diligently with others to mold her idea into a believable concept, a sustainable collaboration, and a nationally recognized model.
- A leader of the alliance from creation, to infancy and present. Joan's administrative and leadership instincts serve the needs of the emerging alliance and team herein.
- Joan accomplished an incredible amount of support for the alliance, faculty development, grant funding, program implementation and alliance leadership - all with a guiding vision.
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- Warren has been instrumental in developing a budget model that permits institutions to benefit from participating in the alliance; which has been essential to the success of the alliance as a business.
- A crucial player in the decision to set the "common price" for Great Plains IDEA courses across the nation. This has been one of the most important decisions made on behalf of the Great Plains IDEA in its formative stages.
- The leadership and goodwill of Warren in shaping financial agreements, and his dedication and excitement in promoting the Great Plains IDEA programs and students has been a major contribution to the inception of the Great Plains IDEA, and to its continuing success.
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