Western Interstate Commission For Higher Education

Educational telecommunication - to promote access to and utilization of broadband networks for education, research, and health care in the west.

Policy analysis and research - to improve higher education policymaking in the west.

Professional student exchange program (psep) - in conjunction with fifteen western states and the u.s. Pacific territories and freely associated states, wiche operates an interstate compact organization created by the u.s. Congress to exchange students between states in order to promote higher education in the west through collaboration and cooperation and filling the various needs between the states and territories by reducing duplicate costs and creating greater efficiencies.