To ensure that students receive the best possible vocational program, vocational educators must strive to do more than just give lip service to the concept of articulation. They must implement the activities which will provide the proper ingredients and mix to create successful institutional coordination. (Author/JOW)

The increased mobility of undergraduate students moving from one campus to another in Massachusetts has presented problems for admissions and transfer officers of 2- and 4-year institutions. At a meeting of these officers it was decided to establish a committee to collect transfer student data on a state-wide basis and to conduct state-wide…

This speech reviews past articulation efforts on the national level, comments on present articulation efforts, and looks ahead to new forces which will probably affect articulation. Past and present efforts discussed included the Knoell-Medsker study, which generated articulation guidelines, Kintzer's "Nationwide Pilot Study on Articulation," and…

Article provided additional resources on state coordination, supplied by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. (Editor)

This document provides an annotation of the articulation agreement between the State Universities and the Public Community Junior Colleges of Florida. Sections cover: general education, definition of associate of arts degree, responsibility for general education requirements, preprofessional course responsibility, admission to upper division…

Tech prep is an articulation partnership between secondary vocational-technical schools and postsecondary institutions. It can be described as an "advanced skills" articulation model because it enables students to use the time saved through coordinated course work to acquire the more advanced occupational knowledge and skill required by…

The problems involved in articulating course offerings in two-year and four-year institutions and the transfer of students and efforts at a solution are discussed. (Editor)

An articulation agreement is described that was developed between Florida's statewide community college system and statewide university system. The 1971 articulation agreement was a compromise between the two college systems. Listed are the specific transfer policy provisions of the articulation agreement and functions assigned to the Florida…

In this paper the system of coordination within the broader framework of education and technical manpower training is examined. The development of technical education in the schools and of programs offered by the public institutions is first described. A discussion follows regarding technical manpower training, the responsibility for which lies…

This article on grading practices in colleges considers the following issues: the more extensive utilization of nontraditional grades by many institutions, the practices of some institutions of not giving or not recording D and/or F grades, the policy of permitting unlimited repeating of courses with the last or highest grade received used in…

This paper consists of six short articles concerned with different facets of student articulation programs and a brief background description of Syracuse University's Project Advance, an experimental effort to improve program articulation between the senior year of high school and the freshman year of college. The articles, which were prepared by…

This monograph is designed to update the articulation information provided in the author's previous work, "The Middleman in Higher Education" (1973), which identified articulation styles and summarized articulation policies in the fifty states. It notes recent changes in the articulation agreements of 13 states and describes their new statewide…

Articulation is the process of meshing the students' previous education, either in terms of credits or in terms of substance of their education, with their baccalaureate program. The problem arises because of the large number of students who attend community and junior colleges and then transfer into baccalaureate programs at a four-year college…