Create uniform nationwide system of recognition and transferring of courses for higher education institutions
by Olga Like
1. Outcomes
1.1. Reduces transfer shock
1.2. Reduces cultural shock
1.3. Access to institutions with out barriers, upon meeting requriements
1.4. Improve transfer orientation for students
1.5. Increase minority transfer rates
1.6. Involve high schools in agreements
2. Existing system is state based
2.1. Challenges
2.1.1. Limited to only agreements between some colleges and rarely includes inter-state agreements
2.1.2. Only 8 states have common course numbering
2.1.3. Advisors sometimes have to advise students to go "backward in order to go forward"
2.1.4. Quarter vs. semester systems difficult to transfer
2.2. Problems to students
2.2.1. Take similar courses already took
2.2.2. Pay for a class already on their academic record
2.2.3. Private and state university transfers are difficult
2.2.4. Higher courses transfer as lower courses
3. Federal-based database
3.1. States will have an input thus not fully controlled by the federal government
3.2. Will provide advisors with a tool to evaluate courses instead of currently hunting through college websites
3.2.1. As a result advising will become efficient