Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

WICHE to colead new Mental Health Tech Transfer Center, thanks to shared $3.8M federal award

The WICHE Behavioral Health Program and the University of North Dakota College of Nursing and Professional Disciples have been selected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) to co-administer a new Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. The selection is accompanied by a five-year funding commitment from SAMHSA of $3.8 million. 

Native American-Serving, Nontribal College Summit sparks progress toward budding alliance

Senior academic leaders and administrators from more than 70 percent of all federally designated Native-Serving Institutions (NSIs) attended the first annual summit, hosted by WICHE and Lumina Foundation, an inaugural event in a three-year effort to help NSIs develop networks, speak with a strong and common voice on policy and legislative matters, and tailor strategies to help their students succeed.

Student savings surpass $400 million for WICHE
out-of-state tuition-discount programs in 2017-18

America’s largest interstate higher education tuition-discount programs set records in 2017-18 for students enrolled and dollars saved. 42,240 students saved more than $403 million—up 7 percent from 2016-17—on three programs managed by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) in its 16 member states and territories.

AZ, UT, WY selected for WICHE Task Force on closing postsecondary attainment gaps

5/10/18—As part of an intensive, two-year process, funded by a $400,000 grant from Lumina Foundation, WICHE will work with a broad array of stakeholders from these three states to develop state-specific action plans to close postsecondary attainment gaps and ultimately to craft regional recommendations to increase higher education success for underserved students throughout the West.