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Selkirk, Linda, author Banning, James, advisor Quick, Donald, committee member Mallette, Dawn, committee member Kraiger, Kurt, committee member 2007-01-03T05:43:19Z 2007-01-03T05:43:19Z 2011 Selkirk_colostate_0053A_10377.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10217/49862 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.018301 This is a qualitative policy analysis that incorporates constructivism and template analysis to study the process of policy development of three policies for the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. The policies studied were the financial, leadership, and intellectual property policies. Data was gathered utilizing meeting minutes, emails, three interviews, and institutional members' websites. Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance is a consortium of mostly land grant universities in the Great Plains region of the United States. The human sciences colleges of these institutions collaborated to offer courses that the individual members did not have the resources to support with the goal of offering students master's degrees that the membership felt were needed by their discipline. The policies were developed to sustain the consortium while addressing the individual needs of the members. The findings include historical best practices for consortia, best practices from the work of the consortium that was studied, and gaps that could be addressed in future consortia. There are also some signposts for new ventures to be aware of as they begin the process of policy development. born digital doctoral dissertations English eng Colorado State University. Libraries 2000-2019 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. qualitative policy analysis template analysis best practices consortium Higher education collaboration Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance: selected policy analysis Text Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral Education Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access