User:SteveFoerster/IDEA/thoughts

To Do List
There will obviously be some overlap here, for example the faculty can be working on syllabi and related materials while the legal issues are being resolved.


 * 1) Contact potential faculty
 * 2) * Many Pathways practitioners advertising on Pathways have doctoral degrees, including PhD, PsyD, ND, DMin, and other practitioner doctorates suitable for the Holistic Studies program, but other social scientists may also be found through normal online adjunct means
 * 3) * For the Social Entrepreneurship program, find more conventional online adjunct types through normal channels
 * 4) From the responses, select a core group of interested people who share a compatible vision to be faculty, three or four initially
 * 5) In concert with faculty, develop a finalized curriculum
 * 6) Develop initial web site allowing those who come across it to express interest
 * 7) Take care of legal matters
 * 8) * Set up a Dominica corporation
 * 9) * Open a checking account
 * 10) * Secure some sort of recognition from the Ministry of Education
 * 11) Develop final web site including installing Moodle
 * 12) Faculty build courses
 * 13) Start marketing
 * 14) Start accommodating the vast throngs of students who apply

Marketing
The institution must be marketed inexpensively, and take advantage of as many free ways to do so as possible. Some possibilities:


 * Ads in Pathways magazine and similar publications, like Utne Reader
 * Setting up a referral bonus and approaching Pathways advertisers to participate in it
 * Posting full color 8.5 x 11 posters in shops that cater to those likely to be interested, e.g., Busboys and Poets, Terra Christa, etc.
 * Link exchange with progressive sites, e.g., antiwar.com