KY Statewide General Education Transfer Policy:

A LEAP Forward!Gary Kuhnhenn - EKU

Mike Mullen - UKMike Quillen - KCTCSLarry Snyder – WKU

KY Convergence Conference May 23, 2011

Purpose

To share changes in statewide course transfer policy, with special reference to General Education

as influenced by the AAC&U LEAP Initiative.

HB 160 – April 12, 2010

• Align KCTCS AA and AS to related bachelors degrees

• Specify Statewide Gen Ed learning outcomes

• Establish statewide course classification system to monitoring transfer and crediting of lower-division coursework

KCTCS Transfer Trends

An Equal Opportunity University

Where are they heading from KCTCS?

Univ 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 5 yr%Chg

EKU 571 661 701 686 661 15.8%

KSU 25 29 39 39 47 88.0%

MoSU 389 312 396 377 424 9.0%

MUSU 444 419 512 504 485 9.2%

NKU 76 61 77 93 126 65.8%

UK 957 896 815 835 755 -21.1%

UL 511 549 592 531 520 1.8%

WKU 431 423 474 447 530 23.0%

Proposed Statewide Transfer Policy

• Emphasizes common Student Learning Outcomes in Five Categories at the state level• Each institution will map Gen Ed courses to

state framework• Promotes Gen Ed credit acceptability across

institutions

• Encourages completion of AA/AS before transfer from KCTCS

• Enhances cooperation across institutions to improve quality of transfer advising

Basic Assumptions

• Applies to students in KY public institutions

• Acquisition of competencies in broad areas

• Student learning outcomes by area assessed for transferability

• Statewide Gen Ed transfer agreement might not fit all majors’ requirements

• AA/AS transfer degree = junior level standing

An Equal Opportunity University

American Association ofColleges & Universities

Liberal Education & America’s Promise (LEAP)

The Essential Learning Outcomes

Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students

should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining:

Intellectual and Practical Skills, including…

• Inquiry and analysis

• Critical and creative thinking

• Written and oral communication

• Quantitative literacy

• Information literacy

• Teamwork and problem solving

• Practiced extensively across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance

Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World…

• Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences humanities, histories, languages, and the arts

• Focused by ENGAGEMENT with big questions, both contemporary and enduring

Personal and Social Responsibility, including…

• Civic knowledge and engagement – local and global

• Intercultural knowledge and competence

• Ethical reasoning and action

• Foundations an skills for lifelong learning

• Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges

Integrative Learning, including…

• Synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies

• Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems

Statewide Gen Ed Transfer Categories

State Gen Ed Category Credit Hr Range

Transcript Code

Communications, Oral & Written

6 – 9 OCWC

Quantitative Reasoning 3 – 6 QR

Arts and Humanities 3 – 6 AH

Social and Behavioral Sciences

6 – 9 SB

Natural Sciences 3 – 7 NS

Authors of Proposed Statewide Transfer Policy

• Statewide Transfer Committee (registrars and transfer/admissions staff)

• Statewide Gen Ed Coordinators (faculty)

• CPE workgroups of Gen Ed area faculty for each category in new framework

An Equal Opportunity University

Statewide SLO: Written and Oral Com

• Listen and speak competently in a variety of communication contexts, which may include public, interpersonal, and/or small-group settings.

• Write clear and effective prose in several forms, using conventions appropriate to audience (including academic audiences), purpose, and genre.

• Find, analyze, evaluate, and cite pertinent primary and secondary sources, including academic databases, to prepare speeches and written texts.

• Identify, analyze, and evaluate statements, assumptions, and conclusions representing diverse points of view, and construct informed, sustained, and ethical arguments in response.

• Plan, organize, revise, practice, edit, and proofread to improve the development and clarity of ideas.

Statewide SLO: Quantitative Reasoning

• Interpret information presented in mathematical and/or statistical forms.

• Illustrate and communicate mathematical and/or statistical information symbolically, visually and/or numerically.

• Determine when computations are needed and to execute the appropriate computations.

• Apply an appropriate model to the problem to be solved.

• Make inferences, evaluate assumptions, and assess limitations in estimation modeling and/or statistical analysis.

Statewide SLO: Arts and Humanities

• Utilize basic formal elements, techniques, concepts and vocabulary of specific disciplines within the Arts and Humanities.

• Distinguish between various kinds of evidence by identifying reliable sources and valid arguments.

• Demonstrate how social, cultural, and historical contexts influence creative expression in the arts and humanities.

• Evaluate the significance of human expression and experience in shaping larger social, cultural, and historical contexts.

• Evaluate enduring and contemporary issues of human experience.

Foreign Language

• Demonstrate competency in a foreign language. Foreign language study develops essential skills and cultural awareness critical for success in a multilingual world.

Statewide SLO: Natural Sciences

• Demonstrate an understanding of the methods of science inquiry.

• Explain basic concepts and principles in one or more of the sciences.

• Apply scientific principles to interpret and make predictions in one or more of the sciences.

• Explain how scientific principles relate to issues of personal and/or public importance.

• Conduct a hands-on project using scientific principles.

Statewide SLO: Social and Behavioral

• Demonstrate knowledge of at least one area of the social and behavioral sciences.

• Apply knowledge, theories, and research methods, including ethical conduct, to analyze problems pertinent to at least one area of the social and behavioral sciences.

• Understand and demonstrate how at least one area of the social and behavioral sciences conceptualizes diversity and the ways it shapes human experience.

• Integrate knowledge of at least one area of the social and behavioral sciences into issues of personal or public importance.

• Communicate effectively using the language and terminology germane to at least one area of the social and behavioral sciences.

Certifying Transfer of Gen Ed

• Category Certifiedin good academic standing; completed some but not all of the 5 categories

• Core Certifiedgood standing; completed all categories but sum of hours does not = receiving institution

• Fully Certifiedgood standing; all categories and total hours

An Equal Opportunity University

Institutional Responsibility for Implementation

• Preparing students for transfer• Advising, accessibility, certification on transcripts

• Receiving institution• Accepts coded course from sending school to assess

completion• Maximize applicability of transfer work beyond Gen

Ed

• Assessment• Expectation for assessing SLO for Gen Ed, monitor

relationship to Statewide Gen Ed SLO. • Area faculty meet regularly to monitor

Implementation Date: Fall 2012

Resources for Transfer Info

• CPE Policy and HB 160• cpe.ky.gov/policies/academicinit/Transfer

• U.Select – College Source Transfer Equivalency System• www.transfer.org

• KCTCS Transfer Site• www.kctcs.edu/students/transfer

• UK Transfer Information• www.uky.edu/Admission/transfer