Faculty Senate Agenda
September 28, 2004
PSF 1/04-05

 

The University Committee has approved the following agenda:

Call to Order by Walter Feldt, Secretary of the Faculty, temporary chair.

Election of a Chair

Under UWPF 1.07(1)(a), the first order of business at the first Senate meeting of the Committee Year is the election of the Chair of the Senate. The Secretary of the Faculty presides during that election. The elected Chair takes office immediately.

Approval of Minutes of the April 20, 2004 (to be supplied shortly)

Report of the University Committee Chair

Report of the Chancellor

Questions – Written/Oral

No written questions have been submitted.

New Business

UWS Revised Undergraduate Transfer Policy – Academic Policies Committee

The Academic Policies Committee recommends that the following statement concerning the UW-System Revised Undergraduate Transfer Policy (ACIS 6.0), in italics below, be approved:

UW-Parkside endorses Section V.C.3 of the “Revised Undergraduate Transfer Policy (ACIS 6.0) approved by the Board of Regents on May 7, 2004.

UWS institutions may accept in transfer and apply up to 30 credits of general education coursework within the areas of communications, behavioral sciences, social sciences, mathematics and natural science from WTCS ( Wisconsin Technical College System) programs leading to an applied associate degree. In cases where UWS institutions find such coursework not acceptable for transfer, WTCS students should have the same opportunities as continuing students to earn credit by examination as per ACIS 6.01V.E.

The recommendation of the Registrar’s Office is that

Courses in the social sciences, behavioral sciences and communication must have been taken at a WTCS campus no earlier than 1987 and courses in mathematics and the natural sciences no earlier than 1995.

Professor Laura Gellott, Chair of the Academic Policies Committee 2003-04 and Convenor, 2004-05, will explain the rationale concerning the statement from the Registrar’s Office.

 

Background information:

 

The full text of the Regents Policy may be found at http://www.uwsa.edu/acadaff/acis/acis6-0.cfm

 

The relevant portion of this policy is stated below…

 

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V.  TRANSFER OF CREDIT FROM NON‑BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTIONS

A.      Freshman/Sophomore Colleges and Universities

            Students transferring from the UW Colleges and other similar freshman/sophomore institutions to UW baccalaureate granting institutions may generally transfer up to 72 semester credits earned at non-baccalaureate institutions.  UW institutions may accept additional credits toward the degree where appropriate.  This does not alter the regulations concerning credits to be earned in residence at an institution.

B.      UW-Extension

University level courses completed through the Independent Study program of UW-Extension will transfer on the same basis as equivalent courses taken at UW institutions.

C.      Wisconsin Technical College System

            Credit transfer between the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and the UW System is based upon the following principles:

1.       Students transferring from the three WTCS accredited liberal arts collegiate transfer programs at Madison, Milwaukee and Nicolet Area Technical Colleges to UW baccalaureate granting institutions may generally transfer up to 72 semester credits earned at non-baccalaureate institutions.  UWS institutions may accept additional credits toward the degree where appropriate.  This does not alter the regulations concerning credits to be earned in residence at an institution.

2.       UWS baccalaureate institutions shall consider students who have completed an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree from any of the three liberal arts collegiate transfer programs and that is specifically aligned with the University of Wisconsin System Associate Degree to have satisfied the university-wide general education breadth requirements at the receiving institution.  The UW baccalaureate-granting institutions also shall consider transfer students holding such an Associate Degree to have satisfied the college or school general education breadth requirements of the receiving institution.  Colleges and schools may require transfer students to complete additional general education credits beyond the university-wide total if required of continuing students.  The following may not necessarily be satisfied by the WTCS Associate Degree:

a.       Competency requirements or levels of proficiency in English composition, speech, foreign language and mathematics established by the receiving institution for continuing students

b.       Upper division general education courses normally required of continuing junior and senior students

c.        General education courses that are prerequisites integral to a particular program or major and are required of continuing students (e.g., micro and macro economics for business majors)

d.       Requirements mandated by external professional accrediting associations or program approving agencies (e.g., Department of Public Instruction, American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, National League for Nursing)

e.       Ethnic studies/cultural diversity requirement

Transfer credits will be evaluated by the receiving institution on a course-by-course basis for purposes other than determining satisfaction of general education breadth requirements.

3.       UWS institutions may accept in transfer and apply up to 30 credits of general education coursework within the areas of communications, behavioral sciences, social sciences, mathematics, and natural science from WTCS programs leading to an applied associate degree.  In cases where UWS institutions find such coursework not acceptable for transfer, WTCS students should have the same opportunities as continuing students to earn credit by examination as per ACIS 6.0 IV.E.

4.       UWS institutions may accept in transfer and apply on a course-by-course basis, occupational and technical coursework from WTCS programs leading to an applied associate degree.

5.       UWS institutions should work with WTCS districts to identify areas where programs leading to an applied associate degree have direct relationships with Baccalaureate Degree programs.  Where program relationships are found to exist, transfer articulation agreements are encouraged.  All such credit transfer and articulation agreements should conform to the "Guidelines for Developing Program-to-Program Articulation Agreements" (ACIS 6.2).  Copies of original and updated agreements should be sent to the UW System Office of Academic Affairs.

Under these articulations, students in certain WTCS Applied Associate Degree programs who subsequently enroll in a related UWS Baccalaureate Degree program may be able to transfer related occupational and technical credits that may not transfer on a course-by-course basis.  These credits may transfer to other programs at that institution or to other UW institutions only if a similar credit transfer or articulation agreement exists.