The management team supports IDEA through the implementation of board initiatives, program coordination, a centralized web presence, enrollment management, financial oversight, providing student support resources, and program and student data analysis.
Management team responsibilities include:
- Support IDEA executive director and alliance leadership
- Facilitate alliance data collection, analysis, and reporting
- Provide ExpanSIS training and support
- Coordinate department chair communications
- Maintain lead institution student services
- Facilitate alliance-level research
- Maintaining the alliance web presence, including the website, Member Portal, and LinkedIn
- Support member university and alliance-first recruiting efforts
- Coordinating content marketing strategy, including branding, production of marketing and recruitment materials, and web development
- Coordinating the annual conference
Morgan Jones, Executive Director
- Coordinating the IDEA Cabinet and both the Human Science Board and the Agricultural Board
- Managing alliance and lead institution operations
- Coordinating alliance communications
- Coordinate AG and HS programs and certificates
- Oversee program annual reporting
- Coordinate program assessment
- Schedule Zoom video conference sessions
- Manage alliance logistics, including faculty credentials, member portal access, and listserv maintenance
- Support alliance with diverse administrative, operational, and project-based needs
- Support and point of contact for campus coordinators at member universities
- ExpanSIS training for campus coordinators
- Support students in K-State IDEA programs
- Managing enrollment and the waitlist
- Liaison to K-State faculty and university offices
