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The Intercampus Academic Program Incentive Fund (IAPIF) was established in 1994 as a three-year competitive grants program to stimulate the development and implementation of strategies for intercampus cooperation in the delivery of instruction at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Over the three-year period from 1994 to 1997, 79 projects were funded. Faculty from a broad range of curricular areas demonstrated various approaches to collaboration across campuses, offering courses live or via distance learning formats, developing course materials that could be shared, and forming regional consortia designed to coordinate intercampus academic programs. Other forms of collaboration included planning for intercampus degree programs and sharing faculty expertise in the development of new programs. In demonstrating the feasibility and benefits of sharing academic resources, the IAPIF- funded projects revealed barriers to intercampus collaboration. Attention is now being directed to the elimination of these roadblocks.
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