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.

Membership

Dues Schedule

Membership Dues FY2013

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The dues are set by the Steering Board annually. There are two levels of dues: one for institutions and consortia located within the WICHE region and another for those located outside the region.

The membership year runs from July 1-June 30. In addition to dues, Enrolling Institutions participating in the Course Exchange pay WICHE an administrative fee per-seat-sold for its brokering services. Currently that fee is 15% of the cost per seat.

ICE welcomes the participation of campuses and consortia across the WICHE region and beyond

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Dues are based on student headcount.

$2,000 0-4,000
$3,000 4,001-12,000
$4,000 12,001+

SYSTEM OFFICES, STATE AGENCIES, AND HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIA

Consortia Memberships. ICE offers consortia in the following categories the opportunity to participate in WICHE ICE.

System membership –defined as the typical state-wide grouping of institutions with a common governance or oversight Board, though the System does not offer online courses or programs and really serves only as a conduit for information about ICE to the participating System campuses. This membership allows a single seat at the Board table, but imposes no workload or data input/management on the ICE database. Dues: $2,500.
System Consortium Membership (single interface) – defined as an electronic system Consortium that has a single legal interface with the ICE program that mirrors a single institutional membership interface. The consortium must have been formally established in System policy specifically to coordinate and serve as a single storefront for online course delivery on behalf of all System member campuses. There must be a formal single tuition level for any course offered through the Consortium, as the Consortium is represented as the provider of the ICE course(s), and as the single interface with ICE and other member institutions. Dues: $7,500
System Consortium Membership (Multiple Interfaces)—defined as a statewide consortium of higher education institutions. The system’s member institutions may be two-year, four-year, or both as legally structured in the state. Each institution has its own independent interface with WICHE ICE. Dues: $5,000 + $1,000 for each participating institution.
System Virtual Campus Membership – defined as meeting all of the above criteria and characteristics of a consortium, except that the Virtual Campus is the legal entity that enrolls the student and grants the degree or certificate on behalf of its members campuses for those programs offered in an electronic environment. Courses are available from all member campuses of the System and are offered and controlled under the legal standing of the virtual entity. The Virtual Campus serves as the single interface with ICE and other member institutions Dues: $7,500

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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

Internet Course Exchange (ICE)