Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance records, 1994–2024

Summary

Creator:
Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance
Physical description:
Five and a half (5.5) cubic feet (6 total boxes).
Language:
English
Latin

Background

Scope and content:

These records document the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance—often shortened to Great Plains IDEA—a collaboration of about twenty universities in the Plains region. Based out of Kansas State University, the group provides fully online graduate programs across several universities. Materials range from 1994 to 2015 and include meeting minutes, itineraries, board member information, education initiatives, and annual meeting information.

Additionally, there are web archives from 2001 to 2024. The current site, www.idea.edu, has been crawled since September 2024, and the previous site, www.gpidea.org, was saved by the Wayback Machine 398 times between September 25, 2001, and July 21, 2024. Web archives available at https://wayback.archive-it.org/5564/*/https://www.idea.edu/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/www.gpidea.org.

Biographical / historical:

Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance—often shortened to Great Plains IDEA—is a partnership of public universities providing quality online educational opportunities in two areas, Human Sciences and Agriculture. Membership in Great Plains IDEA is a selective process that involves university leadership at all levels. Based out of Kansas State University, the group provides fully online graduate programs across several universities.

Acquisition information:
The Institute for Academic Alliances transferred these records on July 10, 2015.
Processing information:

Student assistant McKenzie Combes processed the collection and university archivist Cliff Hight reviewed it in 2017. Further processed by student processing aid Tyra McNeil, March 2025.

Arrangement:

This collection was kept in original order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Published

Dacs citation:

[Item title], [item date], Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance records, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Archives and Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.

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Subjects:
Kansas State University history
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