WICHE ICE enables students, through their home institutions, to seamlessly access high quality online courses and programs offered by other four-year and two-year ICE member institutions. The collaborative model fosters faculty engagement, resource sharing, and innovation.

About WICHE ICE : Leadership

Steering Board

The Steering Board is the policy-making body of WICHE ICE. Collectively, it sets the annual membership dues, determines the wholesale prices for the exchange of courses, develops policies and approves changes to the Operations Manual and the Memorandum of Agreement, seeks and supports collaborative initiatives, and approves the annual ICE work plan. The Steering Board operates within the parameters of the WICHE Commission which has fiscal responsibility for ICE.

Current Members

Tom Carpenter
Assistant Vice President for Extended Programs and Television Services
Arizona Universities Network

David Dannenberg
Director of the Faculty Technology Center
University of Alaska Anchorage

Sam Gingerich
Chief Academic Officer
South Dakota Board of Regents

William Husson
Representative
OCICU

Maggi Murdock
Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs
University of Wyoming

Kim Obbink
Director, Extended University
Montana State University

Mark Wheeler
Dean, Extended Studies
Boise State University

Roles and Responsibilities of Steering Board Members

Each member selects one individual to act as its official representative to WICHE ICE by serving on the Steering Board. These leaders—usually vice provosts, deans, and directors—have a good understanding of online learning and the role ICE can play in furthering cost-effective access to higher education for their students. Members can change their Steering Board representative at any time by notifying the WICHE ICE director.

Specific responsibilities of the individual representative include:

Serves as the primary point of contact for receiving and responding to official correspondence from WICHE ICE staff, the Executive Committee, and other members of the Steering Board.
Attends the annual meeting and conference calls requested by the Chair to discuss ICE business and activities. Casts the single vote on behalf of his/her campus or organization on matters before the Board.
Regularly informs and educates academic leaders and other member staff about the many advantages of ICE, how it works, and ways to include it in their strategic plan. Serves as the key contact for soliciting and supplying participants to be involved in WICHE ICE collaborative initiatives and related grants or other funding opportunities. Provides direction and support to their ICE PIC (Program Information Coordinator) in identifying specific needs to be addressed through ICE as well as resources to be shared.

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"Looking for a way to offer online courses that provide your students more choices, stretch your funding, and keep low enrollment programs running? Check out WICHE ICE which provides a proven framework that supports inter-institutional collaboration, pairing providers with institutions that are looking for ways to enhance options."
Sam Gingerich, ICE Chair and System Vice President for Academic Affairs, South Dakota Board of Regents
"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."
Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming
ICE supplements the curriculum, allowing students to tap into expertise from around the region. It both broadens and deepens a program’s offerings.

John Dede, Interim Director of the Faculty Technology Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
"There are increasingly compelling reasons for certain programs to be developed and delivered collaboratively, and WICHE ICE provides the logistics for doing so."

Mark Wheeler, Dean, Extended Studies, Boise State University
"I have enjoyed teaching WICHE ICE students through an online course at UAA. They tend to be very engaged throughout the courses."

Becky Porter, Instructor, Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services, University of Alaska Anchorage
(Becky Porter is an instructor for the Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services at the University of Alaska Anchorage. During Spring 2011 and 2012 semesters, she taught a series of three workshops on the topic “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.” Typically 10 students from another institution enroll in each workshop through ICE.)

"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."

Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming