Collaboration Among Missouri Institutions
Existing Collaborative Efforts
Onsite 2 + 2 Programs. Four-year institutions deliver courses to complete 4-year degrees on
2-year community college campuses.
 UMSL programs in criminal justice and bachelor of liberal studies are delivered at St.
Charles Community College.
 Missouri Western offers Nursing and Education degrees on the Metropolitan
Community College campuses.
 UMSL offers the bachelor of business administration program at St. Charles Community
College and at the St. Louis Community College-Wildwood Campus.
 UMSL offers the bachelor of liberal studies degree at Mineral Area College and Jefferson
College.
 UMSL offers the criminal justice bachelors degree program at St. Louis Community
College – SCEUC and Wildwood campuses.
Statewide Collaborative Programs. Degree-offering institution collaborates with regional
institutions to make program accessible to students who are in locations in Missouri with
insufficient expertise to offer the program. Some courses are taught at host campus or online
and others at distributed locations.
 Cooperative Educational Leadership Program - a statewide Educational Doctorate
degree program in educational leadership is offered by MU. This program covers all four
corners of the state and has been running for over a decade. The program is
collaborative with five of the public four-year regional campuses and has been a very
successful method of offering cooperative doctoral programs for educational leaders.
The program received funding from MDHE several years ago as a special effort to meet
this need.
Joint Master’s or Bachelor’s Programs. In a number of instances two or more institutions
jointly offer masters or bachelor’s degrees by using faculty from each institution. By combining
faculty, they are able to offer complete degree programs that otherwise would not be available.
Generally the programs allow students to remain at original institution and earn degree from
another institution in the state. For example, there are at least 14 collaborative masters degree
programs among 4-year institutions. Here are a few examples of these programs:
 Master’s in criminal justice: Southern Missouri State/SEMO
 Master’s in dental hygiene: Southern Missouri/UMKC
 Master’s of nursing/family nurse practitioner: Southern Missouri State/UMKC
 Bachelor’s of mechanical engineering: Southern Missouri State/MU
 MBA: Missouri Southern/Northwest Missouri State
 Masters degree in library and information science MU/Missouri State University
Articulation Agreements. There are several hundred articulation agreements between twoand four-year institutions. These agreements specify courses for programs whereby the student
will take approximately 50% of her courses at a two-year institution and 50% at the 4-year
institution that will award a bachelor’s degree. The agreement assures students that courses will
transfer and merge seamlessly into the 4-year program. In some cases, the student will also
earn an associate’s degree at the 2-year institution.
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Collaborative Programs: Face-to-Face Instruction. Students from one institution take
courses at another institution to complete degree. In total there are seven of these programs.
 UMSL students take engineering courses on Wash U campus. UMSL awards degree.
 Missouri S&T is offering engineering programs at Missouri State. Missouri S&T awards
degrees.
Cooperative Healthcare Programs. To address the healthcare needs of Missouri and the
region there are a number of collaborative healthcare programs designed to education
practitioners. Most of these programs use faculty from two or more institutions to put together
a full degree program that would not otherwise be available. In all, there are over 25 of these
collaborative programs among the 4-year public institutions. A few examples include:
 Jointly offered masters and nurse practitioner programs in nursing by MU, UMSL, and
UMKC
 Jointly offered masters degrees in dental hygiene and nursing between UMKC and
Missouri Southern
 A collaborative PharmD degree between MU and UMKC
 Numerous RN to BSN programs that are offered fully online
 Occupational therapy and physical therapy assistant associate degrees where coursework
is offered by MU and becomes part of the degree programs at over 7 different community
colleges in a healthcare consortium.
Study Abroad. Many institutions allow students from other institutions to participate in their
study abroad programs. These collaborations increase the number of locations and institutions
at which students may choose to study abroad.
Electronic Consortia: MOREnet and Mobius
MOREnet. The Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet) provides Internet
connectivity, access to Internet2, technical support, videoconferencing services and training to
Missouri's K-12 schools, colleges and universities, public libraries, health care, state government
and other affiliated organizations. Established in 1991, MOREnet operates as a unit within the
University of Missouri, and is based in Columbia, Mo. The MOREnet network is the foundation
infrastructure. Members of the education community interact with each other via data and video
services; public sector business applications are built and conducted on it; and Missouri citizens
interact with their state government through it.
Mobius. The purpose of Mobius is to share library materials, information, and services using
accessible, cost effective methods. Mobius consists of 60 institutions and two cooperating
partners. The MOBIUS Union Catalog has expanded to include more than 20 million items,
serving over 750,000 people from the higher education community and the state of Missouri.
This virtual collection makes it possible for faculty and students to request library materials on
any personal computer from any location with access to the Internet, enjoying 24 hour
unlimited access to MOBIUS materials.
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Major Interstate Efforts
Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. The Great Plains IDEA is an
award-winning multi-state alliance lead by Human Sciences Colleges that was founded in
1994. The Alliance offers cooperative masters degree programs using the combined
expertise of faculty from several different institutions to create programs that would not be
available without the collaboration. Combining today’s emerging technologies with programbased alliances, it utilizes the growing field of distance education to connect students around
the country and afford them the opportunity to be admitted to one member institution and
study at other member institutions via Internet-based courses. The member universities
are:
 Colorado State University
 Iowa State University
 Kansas State University
 Texas Tech University
 Michigan State University
 University of Missouri
 Montana State University
 University of Nebraska
 North Dakota State University
 Oklahoma State University
 South Dakota State University
Masters degree programs are offered in the following areas:
 Community Development
 Dietetics
 Family & Consumer Sciences Education
 Family Financial Planning
 Food Safety & Defense
 Gerontology
 Merchandising
 Youth Development
Missouri - Kansas Agreement on Architecture, Dentistry, and Optometry. This
agreement by The Kansas Board of Regents, The Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher
Education, and The Curators of the University of Missouri expands student access to
academic programming not available in the respective states of Missouri and Kansas. It
establishes a reciprocal tuition agreement for Missouri residents to study architecture,
architectural engineering, landscape architecture, or interior architecture programs in the
School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas or the College of
Architecture and Design at Kansas State University. In return, Kansas residents can pay
resident fees at the School of Dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City or
optometry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry. The total number of
out-of-state tuition waivers under this agreement for all students is 97 for Kansas residents,
(85 openings in the UMKC School of Dentistry and 12 in the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, School of Optometry). For Missouri residents, a total of 491 out-of-state tuition
waivers are available for architecture programs at both Kansas institutions combined.
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The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC). MHEC is one of four
statutorily-created interstate compacts founded in 1991 and serves Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and
Wisconsin. MHEC contributes to the vitality of the Midwest by enhancing member states’
ability to maximize higher education opportunity and performance through collaboration
and resource sharing in three core functions of student access, cost savings and policy
research that promote improved student access, affordability and completion; reduce
operational costs; analyze public policy and facilitate information exchange; enhance
regional higher education cooperation and dialogue; and encourage quality programs and
services.
The major collaborative services among the 12 states are:
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Joint technology purchasing,
Property Insurance Commercial Pool,
Student Health Care and Energy Savings (under development), and
Midwest Student Exchange Program (multi-state tuition reciprocity at max of 150% of
instate rate).
The Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). MSEP is a tuition reduction
program that makes attending out-of-state colleges and universities more affordable for
non-resident students. By enrolling in a MSEP program at a participating institution,
students receive a reduced tuition rate—giving them a wider range of education options for
their education dollars. Over one hundred and forty colleges and universities in Indiana,
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wisconsin
participate.
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Potential Initiatives
Statewide Programs Using Cooperative Themes 1
1. Develop statewide online degree programs along the lines of the Great Plains IDEA
program – an initiative where a number of cooperating institutions offer course work
leading to master’s degrees. Courses/programs are approved at the respective campuses
and faculty members offer courses as if they are all part of one program.
2. Develop bachelor of general studies/degree completion programs that utilize course
work from various institutions across the state. To make meaningful programs, focus on
distribution areas/multiple minors so students complete work that addresses
employment needs of Missouri and region. Liberal studies programs typically require
general education courses, making them compatible with AA degrees.
3. Offer an upside down 2+2 programs with community college partners. This allows
students to take a discreet technical package of courses and transfer it back to the 4-year
institution to be combined with some upper division course work culminating in a
bachelor’s degree. Would require well-defined tracks in degree programs that are
consolidated at the junior and senior level (see #2 – SAMPLE from UCM).
4. Design a course “co-op” where students take courses from other institutions (online) if
there is space. Pay tuition to home institution and the home institution would pay some
% to school offering courses. Transcript course at home institution.
5. Put together cooperative groups of faculty who together can provide full range of
expertise in a certain area where the units are small and diminishing (e.g., sociology,
anthropology, foreign languages, music, etc). Faculty would coordinate with other units
to expand their expertise and operate as distributed faculty with collaborative degree
programs and grants. Another dimension of this would be to actually share faculty (1/2
time at two different institutions) - may even be tenure-track faculty where there are
concerns about lack of TT faculty in given area.
6. Review common areas where campuses need courses but cannot find faculty or demand
exceeds capacity (e.g., college algebra, basic statistics, and basic research methods).
Have a group of respected faculty design exemplary online courses that could be offered
in cooperative format (all campuses approve courses and use with existing numbers,
etc). Faculty members meet semi-annually to review courses for ongoing
discussions/updates by team. Faculty could use as is or modify to meet their needs.
7. Create a shared study abroad infrastructure that would allow students to study abroad in
many areas where we have no real presence. Set clear standards and components for
experiences and have quality reviews to ensure ongoing satisfaction with experiences.
8. Create degree programs where students complete a rigorous bachelor’s degree in three
years – going full-time for 36 months. Offer at least two different options where course
work would be offered to allow students to complete full program. Examples include a
bachelors of professional studies (require general education & two minors or course
work from distribution areas) and some health/technology.
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Not all institutions would participate in initiatives – chose those work best for them.
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ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM OF STUDY
FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS 2
The School of Technology has created a sequence of courses leading to a Bachelor of Science in
Technology (43-329) that is specifically designed for transfer students. The student learning outcomes for
this transfer program are identical to those listed previously for the Technology major/ program. This
alternative program is not limited to specific two-year colleges or universities. The School of Technology is
committed to designing a program of study for students who have earned a technology- related Associate
in Applied Science or Associate in Science Degree from an accredited community college or technical
institute in a field of study related to the School of Technology.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
76 SCH
Associate Degree Technology Courses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38 SCH
A technology related Associate in Applied Science or Associate in Science Degree from an accredited
community college or technical institute in a field of study related to the School of Technology will be
accepted. Thirty-eight semester hours of the degree transferred should apply towards the major and the
remainder towards
General Education
The General Education requirements transferred must be equivalent to core requirements.
Core Courses (all offered online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INDM 4010 Current Issues in Industry
INDM 4015 Legal Aspects of Industry
INDM 4210 Industrial Management
INDM 4260 Organizational Dynamics
ENGT 4580 Quality Systems
SAFE 3000 Prin. of Acc. Caus. & Prev
SAFE 3120 Industrial Hygiene
CTE 3060 Technical Writing
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Electives selected from one or more of the following areas in: management, construction,
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Below are two examples
Area 1: Management
TECH 3050 Technical Career Subjects, 1-3 or
SOT 3022 Internship in Technology, 1-3 . . . . . . . .
INDM 4220 Human Factors Engineering . . . . . . . . .
INDM 4240 Facilities Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Area 5: Quality Systems
ENGT 3520 Engineering Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ENGT 3530 Inspection & Quality Control . . . . . . . . .
INDM 4230 Quality Control Management. . . . . . . . .
INDM 4280 Industrial Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SOT 4000 Special Projects in Technology . . . . . . . .
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Program at University of Central Missouri.
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