Libraries
Identity elements
Reference code
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1994–2024 (Creation)
Extent
Five and a half (5.5) cubic feet (6 total boxes).
Name of creator
Administrative history
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.
Content and structure elements
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.
System of arrangement
This collection was kept in original order.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
All materials are open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
The Institute for Academic Alliances transferred these records on July 10, 2015.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Materials align with collection development guidelines and are an important collection documenting a Kansas State University collaboration.
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Some of the organization's publications are in the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) at https://hdl.handle.net/2097/2393.
Related descriptions
Specialized notes
- 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.
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Sources used
Archivist's note
Student assistant McKenzie Combes processed the collection and university archivist Cliff Hight reviewed it in 2017.