IICM Extension Center -3rd World Countries

A Memorandum Understanding (An Agreement) to establish and operate

1. To operate an Extension Center for our International Institute of Church Management Inc. incorporated in Florida, USA, as a Non-Profit Religious Organization with a right to operate a Bible College

(or even to have a On Campus Bible College, offering courses
during the Day, in the Evenings or during the Week-ends)
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1. This Agreement will give you the option

a.    To run an Extension Center of our American Bible College Degree Programs, exactly like we do

b.    To offer all or any of the Degree Programs that we offer, and to provide all or any of the other services related to the ministry that we provide

c.     To use our Curriculum, Course Materials, Tests etc., following our syllabi for each degree (if you would like to substitute any course material or add any additional book or material to any course, you should get our approval

d.    We suggest that you separately form an Educational Trust to become eligible for special privileges and benefits applicable to Educational Institutions. You may also run this Extension Center under the registration of your current ministry as a division, if your local laws permit, with a name such as:

Eg. IICM New York (or______ Bible College (in the place of New York). You may insert the name of your city or town, if you so desire)

Please get our approval for the name you are going to use to avoid any conflict and confusion.

e.    To make this Bible College as a division of your ministry which is already registered as an Non-Profit Religious Organization or Church or a Bible College

f.      To have your own website and to print your own Catalog and Application Form.

2. Further, under this Agreement you can offer any of our Degree Programs to students living in any place, but collecting the fees from them according to the geographic area in which they live, as indicated in our Catalog

3. To maintain the same Academic and Spiritual Standards as we do, which are described in our Catalog.

4. To send us a Weekly Report in a form prescribed by us, by email, indicating the new enrollment of students in all Degree Programs.

5. To send us through Western Union or a Bank Draft or Bank Transfer to our account in Plymouth, PA, USA or Tambaram, Chennai, India, 50% of the fees received from the students during that week.

6. To maintain a Database in the computer giving full details of each student including the requirements to be completed for the degree in which they have enrolled, and recording the grades secured in each course and the payments made towards the fees, Registration fees, book fees and graduation fees. Until such time you start creating and maintaining a database in the computer, you may maintain all the records in a bound register. We should have access to your records at all times to ensure that accuracy and standards are maintained at all times.

7. To send students after completion of all the Courses, their Transcripts of Courses with the grades secured, and a Provisional Certificate saying that the student has completed all the requirements for the degree for which they have enrolled. (We can send you a specimen copy of all these forms after you make a decision to enter into a Agreement with us).

8. To either arrange a Convocation Service in your own place at least once in 6 months or 1 year, or give them the option to participate in the Convocation Services held in our Headquarters either in India or in USA (Almost every month a Convocation Service will be held in our Headquarters). The graduating students should wear appropriate academic gowns (which they can rent or purchase though us, when they receive their degree, and if you would like us to participate in that event and award the degrees we will consider that too, if there is no conflict of programs. However, our representatives in every major cities of India and the world, with the titles of Bishops, Arch Bishops, Cardinal, Reps., Adjunct Faculty Members, Alumni Association Directors etc, will be able to participate on our behalf.

9. You may award Degree Certificates designed and printed by you with our approval, just signed by you and counter signed by us or we can send you Degree Certificates signed by me to be counter signed by you.

10. This Agreement will be valid initially for a period of 1 year, but will be renewable, if all the terms and conditions of this Franchise Agreement are strictly compiled with, and a certain minimum enrollment is also done, every year as mutually agreed upon.

11. We will supply one set of Topical Bible Course Books for all students (10 books) authored by Dr. John Williams, which are the special courses offered by IICM.

12. You may negotiate with us to offer our Degree Courses in English or any other world language such as Spanish, French, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese etc, or in any Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi etc.

13. Any other special terms and conditions can be negotiated and agreed upon mutually. 

14. You may recommend suitable Candidates with their bio-data and photo by email to confer Honorary Degrees, Consecrate as a Bishop for a City(for a City) Arch Bishop (for a State) or a Cardinal (for a Country), give Ordination to qualified candidates, appoint IICM Reps. or an Adjunct Faculty Members or Alumni Association Directors for a city, State or Country.

You may also offer your services in any one of the capacities or to be designated to serve as a Bishop or to receive an Honorary Doctorate by sending your bio-data and photo by email. When we hear from you we will let you know about the requirements of IICM to receive such an honor and responsibility.

15. Payments/Contributions to be at the time of signing the Agreement are given below:

a. Life Time Membership of your ministry with IICM              $100
b. An initial & Annual Affiliation Fee as mentioned in our website  
            (For Affiliation with our Bible College in India –         $150
        for the first year, and $50 for the subsequent years)    
        (For Affiliation with our Bible College in USA–               $200
        for the first year, and $100 for the subsequent years)  
c. One Time Agreement Fees                                $200
d. Your revenue from a variety of sources and for different reasons should be shared with us in the proportion as indicated in the supplementary form attached.           

Date:________                                 Signature of the Director of the Extn Center:

Place:_____                                                           Name of the Extension Center

Date:                                                Signature of IICM Officer: 

Place:                                                                                       Name of Chief Administrator:

Other Conditions to be met:

1.    Degree Certificates will be issued by IICM Edu. Trust, Chennai, India or  IICM Inc., Florida, USA

2.    Copies of the Admission letters and Application Forms should be sent to us, every week, by email

3.    The name to be used for the IICM Extension Center should be agreed upon by IICM Edu. Trust, India/IICM Inc., USA

4.    Exclusive jurisdiction in a City, State or Country as an Internet / Correspondence / Campus / Language IICM Extn. Center should be negotiated and agreed upon, which will require the Extension Center Director to guarantee a minimum enrollment and payment of certain minimum amount of contribution every 3 months.

Remunerative Ministry Opportunities including

Operation of an IICM Extension Center in your city, under your own current ministry as a separate Division or as a separate Non-Profit Educational Trust or a  Religious Organization or registered in the name of IICM Extension Center, may also do the following:

1.   Serve as a Rep. and recruit Students (10% of the fees received) 
2.   Serve as an Adjunct Faculty Member whenever there is need to grade tests etc. for Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral students, respectively or to guide doctoral students to write a Thesis or Dissertation. 
3.   Establish and Operate IICM Extension Centers and offer our Degree Programs using our name, curriculum, books, academic procedures and policies under an Agreement ( signed for sharing the responsibilities and the revenue or contribution of a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 50% as per our agreement, depending upon the services that will be rendered by each one)  
4.     Ordination of Pastors (10%) 
5.     Affiliation (10%) 
6.     Accreditation (10%) 
7.     Life Time Members (10%) 
8.     Honorary Doctorate (10%) 
9.     Consecration of Bishops by Arch Bishops (10%) 
10. Consecration of Arch Bishops by Cardinals (10%) 
11. Translation of our Course Materials from English to other languages (as per our mutual agreement)

12. Printed Catalog & Application should be published with our PRIOR consent and approval. Whatever you charge the prospective students can be collected and kept by you.

13. When students apply for admission for various degrees as shown below, you should collect a registration fee and a tuition fee following our guidelines.  You cannot charge a lower fee but can charge a higher fee, but with our permission only.

a. 50% of the Tuition and Registration Fee should be sent to us and other 50% should be kept by you. 
 

Other Conditions to be met:

1.    Degree Certificates should be issued by us.

2.    Copy of the Admission letter and application form should be sent to us.

3.    How to name the IICM Extension Center/Affln./Accred. should be agreed upon mutually

4.    Exclusive jurisdiction in a State as an Internet / Correspondence / Campus / Language should be negotiated and agreed upon.

Remunerative Ministry Opportunities including

Franchise Operation of an IICM Extension Center in your city, under your own current ministry as a separate Division or as a separate Non-Profit Educational Trust registered in the new name of IICM Extension Center.

1.   Serve as a Rep. and recruit Students (10% of the fees received)
2.   Serve as an Adjunct Faculty Member ($25, $50, $100 to grade tests etc. for Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral students, respectively)
3.     Establishing and Operating IICM Extension Centers and offering our Degree Programs using our name, curriculum, books and academic procedures and policies under a Franchise Agreement (sharing the revenue or contribution with us from a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 50% as per our agreement depending upon the services that will be provided by you)
4.     Ordination of Pastors (10%)
5.     Affiliation (10%)
6.     Accreditation (10%)
7.     Life Time Members (10%)
8.     Honorary Doctorate (10%)
9.     Consecration of Bishops by Arch Bishops (10%)
10. Consecration of Arch Bishops by Cardinals (10%)
11. Translation of our Course Material from English to other languages (as per our negotiation and mutual agreement)

12. Printed Catalog & Application should be published with our approval. Whatever you charge the prospective students can be collected and kept by you.

13. When students apply for admission for various degrees as shown below, you should collect a registration fee and a tuition fee following our guidelines.  You cannot charge a lower fee but can charge a higher fee with our permission.

a. 50% of the Tuition fee should be sent to us and other 50% should be kept by you.

Bachelors:                U.S.$400
Masters :                  U.S.$800
Doctorates                       U.S.$1200
Ph.D.(Ministry etc.)    U.S.$1500
                                               
c. 100% of the graduation fee should be sent to us
Bachelors  :U.S.$25
Masters     :U.S.$50
Doctorates :U.S.$100

d. 100% of the Convocation Fees to cover your expenses of the
Convocation Ceremony including lunch, rental of gowns etc. should be kept by you.

Rental of Convocation Gowns, if you would like to have the Convocation in your own place; you have to make your own arrangements for rentals and collect the charges from the Graduating students.

The students graduating will also have the option to purchase and keep their own convocation gowns as per the charges quoted below, which are ordered and specially made for IICM Graduates in specified colors for different degrees and keep them permanently for their use in other appropriate occasions, and one-time cost including the postal parcel charges will be as follows:

Bachelor Degree Gown, Hood and Cap:          U.S.$50

Masters Degree Gown, Hood and Cap:           U.S.$75

Doctorates Degree Gown, Hood and Cap:       U.S.$100

Gowns for Bishops, Arch-Bishops & Cardinals: U.S.$200

Weekly Report Form of activities in IICM Franchise Centers
(This report should be sent on Monday of every week
as long as there is any additional or new activity listed below)

Date: _______________
Location of the IICM Franchise Center: _____________
Name of Director of the Franchise Center: _____________
Email Id.: _________________
Telephone Number: _______________
Weekly Report for the week ending on Saturday: ______________

1.     Enrollment:  Total: _________           Last Week: ______

2.     New Enrollment during last week         Total: _______
(New Enrollment information)

3.     Total Fees Received: U.S.$ _____________

4.     Total Amount Sent to IICM: U.S.$ _______________ (50%)

5.     List below the course materials needed