To: Council of Instructional Administrators and Provosts’ Council
From: John Miller, Chair of the Joint Boards Articulation Commission
Re: A Possible General Education Transfer Module
The Joint Boards Articulation Commission (JBAC) proposes the creation of a General Education Transfer Module to address the needs of students who transfer among our institutions without an AA/OT or AS/OT-BUS degree and therefore without the guarantees of course transferability that these degrees represent. We offer this proposal in response to the policy packages, developed by the State Boards of Education and Higher Education, that seek improved transfer of General Education coursework within Oregon. The attached material outlines a proposed Transfer Module that needs careful examination by the faculty on your campuses, but that has the potential to be refined and adopted for implementation during the 2005-06 academic year, in accord with the Boards’ goal.
Based on our current thinking, the Transfer Module would have the following key features:
Ø The Module would guarantee that courses taken to complete it would be wholly transferable and would apply toward students’ AA/OT, AS/OT-BUS, or OUS baccalaureate degrees. The General Education courses in the Module are a subset of the AA/OT General Education coursework, and students who complete them would be assured that each course would transfer among all Oregon public institutions of higher education and would count toward their degrees.
Ø The Module could be either course- or credit-based, and would rely initially on the courses that each campus has designated to count toward the General Education part of the AA/OT degree. For the long term, statewide committees, composed of faculty from the appropriate disciplines, would develop criteria for the kinds of courses and outcomes that are appropriate for the Module.
Ø The Module would be documented in the form of a transcript endorsement or certificate.
Ø The Module would be awarded by all post-secondary institutions (OUS & community college).
Ø The Module would not replace effective academic advising. Students would be encouraged to meet with an academic advisor early in their academic programs to identify the additional courses necessary to make up the difference between the Transfer Module and the total General Education requirements of a specific college or university.
We encourage vigorous discussion of the proposed Transfer Module on each campus, and are particularly interested in the answers to these questions:
For example, are the Module courses part of the programs for students earning a variety of Associate Degrees (AA/OT, AS/OT-Business, Associate of Science, Associate of General Studies) or enrolled as English Language Learners?
2. Would the Transfer Module create barriers for any students?
3. To work effectively, would the Transfer Module require changes on your campus?
If we are to satisfy the Boards’ desire for Fall 2005 implementation, a Transfer Module that is acceptable to all campuses must be in its final form by the end of December 2004. Therefore campus recommendations need to be received by the Joint Boards Articulation Commission by November 15, 2004.
Feel fee to contact me, or any member of the Joint Boards Articulation Commission (see contact information below), for clarifying information. Written campus feedback will be coordinated by, and should be sent to:
Elaine Yandle-Roth
Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development
255 Capitol Street, NE
Salem, OR 97310
(503-378-8648 ext. 367)
Elaine.Yandle-Roth@state.or.us
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JBAC Members |
2004-05 |
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John Miller, Chair |
541-962-3544 |
John.Miller@eou.edu |
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Karen Carter |
541-298-3110 |
kcarter@cgcc.cc.or.us |
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Mike Corcoran |
541-552-6614 |
corcoran@sou.edu |
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Berta Dargen |
541-440-4624 |
dargenb@umpqua.edu |
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Agnes Hoffman |
503-725-5502 |
hoffmana@pdx.edu |
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Craig Kolins |
503-614-7249 |
ckolins@pcc.edu |
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David McDonald |
541-346-5729 |
David_McDonald@ous.edu |
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Salam Noor |
503-378-3600 ext.2230 |
Salam.Noor@state.or.us |
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Karen Sprague |
541-346-1246 |
ksprague@molbio.uoregon.edu |
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Mark Wahlers |
503-280-8528 |
mwahlers@cu-portland.edu |
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Ed Watson |
541-917-4201 |
Ed.Watson@linnbenton.edu |
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Elaine Yandle-Roth |
503-378-8648 ext.367 |
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