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TransferIN: Indiana’s
Statewide Transfer
Initiative
Presenters:
Tari Lambert, Director
Transfer Indiana Central Office
[email protected]
Larry Ottinger, TA Specialist
Transfer Indiana Central Office
[email protected]
Barbara Stafford, Director of Degree Audit & Transfer
Indiana State University
[email protected]
Indiana Institutional Structure
4-Year Institutions:
Public: 5 state schools with 15 campuses
Private: 31 schools with 33 campuses
2-Year Institutions:
Public: 2 state schools ( 1 with 23 campuses)
Private: 1
> all public school campuses are autonomous
> no state-wide CC system
History of Indiana Initiative
November 1987 - ICHE approves 1st four AS
degrees in Nursing to facilitate transfer
All institutions and ICHE agree to improve transfer
opportunities from two-year programs.
History (cont’d)
November 1988 – Indiana Legislative Services
Agency issues Final Report of the Interim Study
Committee on Post-High School Study which
“urges IVTC and Indiana’s colleges and
universities to work to resolve the transferability
issue, so as to avoid intervention by the General
Assembly”
History (cont’d)
January 1989 – General Assembly passes Senate
Resolution 18, “urging all state universities and
IVTC to enter into articulation agreements to
facilitate the transfer of credits from courses
successfully completed by IVTC students
enrolled in IVTC associate of science degree
programs”
History (cont’d)
January 1990 – ICHE completes A Study of the
Transfer of Credit by IVTC Students to Public
Institutions in Indiana which concludes that
“officially, most public institutions in Indiana do
not transfer Ivy Tech credits”
History (cont’d)
February 1992 - Indiana General Assembly passed
P.L. 19-1992 which mandated 30 semester hours
(10 courses) of general education courses
transfer among state institutions
1992 - 1999
Some progress:
>Beginning of distance education programs
that articulate with Ivy Tech AS degrees
>Beginning of systematic transfer evaluations
>Beginning of transfer cooperatives between
Ivy Tech and Vincennes University and
baccalaureate-granting schools
April 2000
ICHE announced the Transfer Indiana Initiative
To develop transfer-of-credit agreements for
frequently taken courses
To develop statewide agreements whereby AA
and AS programs articulate fully with related
baccalaureate degree programs
To publicize by all appropriate means, including
an electronic web site, a master list of transferof-credit & program articulation agreements
ICHE established two committees:
Statewide Transfer & Articulation Committee
(STAC)
Web Site Development Committee
History (cont’d)
September 2001 - Articulation agreements
concluded with all public 4-year campuses for
8 Vincennes University A.A./A.S. degrees.
(1st time in state’s history that statewide
articulation agreements were concluded for an
associate degree program with every public
university campus.)
First 8 Articulation Agreements:
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English
History
Liberal Arts
Philosophy
Political Science
Pre-Law
Psychology
Sociology
2001 – March 2002
>STAC determines 40 mostly frequently taken
courses in Fall 1999
>Established course equivalencies for these 40
courses between all of the publicly funded schools
Additional Activities:
>Discipline based academic meetings
>Regular meeting of academic representatives
from each school
>Establish both course and program articulations
(with mixed results)
May 2002
ICHE approves Principles Guiding Statewide
Transfer and Articulation in Indiana
Statewide Transfer Principles
Principles Guiding Statewide Transfer and
Articulation in Indiana:
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Faculty Primacy
Equal Partners
Collective Responsibility
Comparable Treatment of Students
Course-to-Course Transfer
Articulation for Majors
Inclusion of Independents
Principles (cont’d)
Wide Communication
Constructive Evaluation
Currency
Multi-Directional Transfer
Responsiveness to Student Problems
Appropriate Timing of Transfer
History (cont’d)
April 2003 - HB 1209 passed by General
Assembly; reinforced role of STAC (making it
official) and demanded accountability
August 2004 – STAC and other committees
propose to ICHE that funding for a statewide
transfer web site and support infrastructure
be included in ICHE’s budget recommendation
for the 2005-2007 Biennium.
History (cont’d)
April 2005 – General Assembly passes HB 1001,
which calls for STAC to establish statewide
Core Transfer Library (CTL) with 70 courses
that will apply toward degree requirements in
the same way as the receiving institution’s
equivalent course.
HB also calls for the establishment of
articulation agreement in 12 programs that
will apply toward any IVTC or VU campus.
12 Programs from Ivy Tech and VU:
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English/Communication
Mathematics
Life/Physical Sciences
Fine Arts/Humanities
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Languages
Information Technology
Manufacturing/Technology
Business
Education
Nursing
Criminal Justice
History (cont’d)
August 2006
Funding provided by ICHE for:
> Transfer Indiana Central Office (TICO)
> Transfer system pilot project
April 2007
Funding for 2007-09 Biennium approved by
General Assembly
March 2008 – June 2008
• Web site subcommittee formed
• Steps to completion:
– Searched statewide transfer sites
• Searched own sites looking at ease of use
• Independent person reviewed sites
• Researched other states / schools
– Determined major categories
• Process
• Results
– Assigned categories to committee members
• Research
• Writing content
– Coordinated all copy through several people
– Determined rudimentary format/style sheets
Launch date:
Wednesday, June 4
LINK HEADINGS:
Students
Dual Credit
Educators
Transfer Links
u.select / Degree Planner
CTL
Contact Us
Student Links
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Types of Transfer
Steps for Transfer
Military Information
Transfer Policy
Educators
• STAC Documents
– Annual Reports to State Legislature
– STAC members
– Articulation Agreements
Transfer Links
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Colleges
Financial Aid
Admissions
Contacts
u.select / Degree Planner
Statewide Transfer Tool to Provide Information on:
>Courses
>Programs
>Course Equivalencies
>Degree Audit
CTL
Core Transfer Library
- currently has 82 courses listed
(public schools only)
- other courses may be added soon
- private schools are currently in process of
joining
Core Transfer Library (CTL)
Courses are listed by:
 Course title
 Institution
 Alpha listing of all courses
Current Plans / Activities
>Redirect projects to meet current state and federal
mandates
>Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEA)
>High school academic diploma
>Dual Credit
>Collaboration between publicly funded and private
institutions
>CTL
>Pilot institutions: Valparaiso and Indiana Wesleyan
University
>Expand transfer program to include more private
institutions
>Collaboration with surrounding states
Current Plans / Activities
u.select implementation
Struggles:
>meeting deadlines
>individual IT/resource constraints
for each school
>variety of SIS interfaces
Future Activities and
Proposed Solutions
>Expand and enhance web site
>Increased involvement of Independent
Colleges of Indiana (ICI)
>Collaboration with u.select Illinois
>Initiated interface discussion with 4 major SIS
vendors