Resources and revenue sharing for development and delivery are established with the Office of Continuing Education. Continuing Education negotiates a contract and price with an external organization. Non-degree courses and programs offered to either individual students or groups of students. Courses are developed and delivered with any appropriate resources, i.e. department, college, regional campus, grant, Continuing Education, etc. At the discretion of the program sponsor, Continuing Education can negotiate a contract with the external organization and manage registration of individual students.
Costs are the responsibility of the course or program sponsors.
Pricing is established as appropriate for market, costs are the responsibility of the sponsor and revenues return to sponsor. The Task Force recognizes that existing models will not be sufficient for some potentially desirable distance education courses and programs. A pilot is recommended to build experience and data from which a permanent policy can be established. For those units for which existing mechanisms are not sufficient, the Task Force recommends a one stop administrative partnership between the Office of Finance and the Chief Information Officer from the Office of Academic Affairs with the capacity to change the financial framework for individual distance education courses or programs on a pilot basis. The partnership would establish the authority to permit and support flexible pricing and cost recovery mechanisms for distance learning.