Convene cross-institutional executive committees once a semester

Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation

Mechanism

Provosts, budget officers and student affairs VPs meet once a semester. It is the escalation route for the legal, money and policy problems the frontline group cannot settle.

Preconditions

Working frontline and policy committees that send unresolved items up.

Owner, by role

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs / AVP for Student Affairs

Who can act

Both institutions jointly

Effort

Small, 3 months to first visible effect

Outcome metric

Policy roadblocks cleared at executive level; annual partnership budget approved

Failure modes

Executive turnover can disrupt meeting consistency, leading to partnership drift.

Contra-indications

None stated

Related practices

LTI-ENA-029 Code-sign joint curriculum committees to co-develop major pathways
LTI-PM-003 Meet weekly among cross-institutional frontline transfer program managers