Behavioral Health Training
Addresses shortages in the mental health workforce, especially in rural areas. ► Integrated Care ► Mental Health First Aid Training ► Rural Behavioral Health Webcasts/Webinars
College Access Challenge Grant Consortium and Network
Aims to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
eLearning Membership Organization
WCET (formerly the Western Cooperative for Telecommunications) serves a membership cooperative of institutions and organizations dedicated to advancing access and excellence in higher education through the innovative use of technology.
eLearning News Digest
Gathers and disseminates press articles about advances in e-learning.
eLearning Professional Development
Offers webcasts, conferences, and face-to-face sessions to promote good practices in distance and online education through WCET’s professional development offerings.
Getting What You Pay For
Helps legislators and policymakers better understand the complex and difficult-to-balance mix of higher education appropriations, tuition, and financial aid.
Internet Course Exchange (ICE)
Enables institutions to meet student, state, and workforce needs cost-effectively by exchanging high quality, Internet-delivered courses and programs.
Non-traditional No More: Policy Solutions for Adult Learners
Aims to help selected states increase the number of “ready adults” (those who’ve accumulated a significant number of college credits but remain just shy of completing their degree) who return to college and finish their postsecondary education.
Population-specific Behavioral Health Support
Focuses on mental health service needs and outreach to particular populations. ► Children ► College and University Students ► Cultural Competence Standards ► Deaf and Hard of Hearing ► Military, Troops, and Veterans ► Older Adults
Professional Student Exchange Program (PSEP)
Helps students who want to earn a professional degree in the health professions pay reduced tuition at participating programs in the West.
Rocky Mountain Collaborative to Transform the Health Professions Workforce
Works to expand the pipeline of underrepresented populations through all sectors of postsecondary education and ultimately into the health professions.
State Scholars Initiative
Administered by WICHE from October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2009, SSI partnered with business leaders to motivate students to complete a rigorous course of study in high school.
Transparency by Design
Provides adult learners with information to become educated consumers of online higher education.
Western Academic Leadership Forum
Provides the West’s top academic leadership with a forum for sharing information and expertise and collaborating on regional initiatives.
Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP)
Assists students who want to earn a master’s or doctorate to save money at participating institutions across the West by paying resident tuition.
Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE)
Helps undergraduate students to study out of state in the West for less (150 percent of resident tuition) at some 145 institutions in 15 WICHE states.
Access and success
From its beginnings in the 1950s, WICHE has focused on expanding access to higher education in the West. Our commitment continues -- to help our 15 member states “work collaboratively, not only to expand educational access and excellence for the citizens of the West, but also to the commitment our states need to make to sustain support for higher education, so that it can continue to serve well the public good.
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UPCOMING
- September 13-September 13, 2010Bringing the stop-outs back to campus Find out more
Access and success
Publications, Papers, and Reports
Crisis/Opportunity : WICHE 2011 Workplan (May 2010)
Professional Student Exchange Program Brochure (January 2010)
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3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200
Boulder, CO 80301-2204
Telephone 303.541.0200 | Network Fax: 303.541.0291