There should be some faculty coordination here to make sure it happens, to articulate programs and provide assistance to priorities. Mr. Illingworth said the Fairbanks campus has a series of degrees, has decided what they are, and offer them on a three-year basis. When UAS started developing the Bachelor of Liberal Arts program they sent their list of needs to UAF and UAF decided what they could offer to meet needs. The UAF School of Education has just developed a distance degree program with input from all folks doing distance delivery. This is occurring at the department level.
Professional development is provided to assist faculty to offer courses by distance delivery.
Swazo said that there should be a special session of the Alliance in Anchorage prior to the meeting. The preference of the group was to have a longer meeting on March 23 rd . Mr. Hacker and Dr. Sfraga will prepare a short statement for Alliance review in the short term. Dr. Swazo said the Alliance needed to approve structure and then these entities in the infrastructure can discuss and decide many of these other questions. Academic Liaison Faculty Fellow President's Outstanding Distance Educator Award Mr. Hacker expressed the need for one faculty or academic administrator from each MAU for the selection committee.