Oregon Community College President's Council August 2004

Portability of earned competencies

• Create a system in which Oregonians can obtain their baccjaureate degree in the same time frame regardless of their choice to obtain their lower division course work at a community college or university;
• Expedite a student's pathway to a baccalaureate degree by developing a competency based, fully-transferable core oflower division general education, creating a framework for a unified agreement among community colleges and between community colleges and OUS that utilizes the 55 credits of general education already agreed upon;
• Recognizing that the baccalaureate degree often requires lower division prerequisites to the major, insure that those prerequisite courses are offered at Oregon's Community Colleges giving Oregon's community college students the same standing at the beginning of their junior year as the native university student.
• In cooperation with OUS, create a web delivered statewide degree audit system facilitating a seamless transfer of academic attainments among community colleges and from community colleges to Oregon's universities