In keeping with the spirit of this collaborative, the program seeks to develop a set of common goals and achieve a degree of success and prominence that goes beyond the capacity of a single program. Curricular elements within this program include:

• Inter-institutional collaborative courses
• Undergraduate research symposium
• Faculty development seminars
• program planning and collaboration

Sunoikisis enables students and faculty at participating institutions to benefit from opportunities normally available only at large research institutions, while maintaining the advantages of a small liberal arts learning environment.

Sunoikisis was cited as a model by academic leadership consultants Susan Frost and Aimee Pozorski in Chaos and the New Academy.