College enrollment has increased over the past 10 years and is projected to continue growing over the next 10 for both full- and part-time students. At the same time, institutions face low retention and graduation rates. One policy that shows promise in increasing completion rates, especially for adult learners and those who served in the…

This is the twenty-fourth edition of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Articulation Handbook for British Columbia's public post-secondary institutions. It has been updated for 2009-2010 through the dedicated efforts of the educators who participate in the working and steering committees. Articulation is a dynamic process that will never be…

After nearly three years of planning, Ohio's higher-education officials are finalizing an ambitious program to grant college credit for some technical courses offered at the state's adult-education centers. The program, called the Career-Technical Credit Transfer, is the latest in a string of state efforts to more closely link work-force training…

Describes the course-credit system in the United States, the standard means of measuring academic work. Discusses how the system is a means of measuring the time spent on study and not the quality of work; since the 19th century, the course-credit system has been the major "currency" in American higher education and has proven quite…

Describes how company-sponsored training can earn employees credit toward college degrees. Presents examples from the American Council on Education's Program on Non-Collegiate Sponsored Instruction. (JOW)

As location becomes less relevant to education choices, the need for a more comprehensive credit articulation policy increases. The Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Distance Learning Policy Laboratory is working to develop a plan that would facilitate credit articulation among the SREB's 16 states. Discussion includes challenges and…

The results of a survey of publicly-supported colleges offering master's degrees to determine the most typical requirements for such degrees are reported. Results indicate that a typical master's degree program is one that: (1) does not require students to fulfill a full-time-student residency requirement; (2) requires that students complete…

This transfer guide provides supplemental counseling for community college students from throughout Washington who intend to transfer to Washington State University (WSU) in pursuit of a baccalaureate degree. The information it contains is designed to help students to identify the most appropriate courses for them to take prior to transferring to…

This booklet provides a guide to some of the credit-bearing opportunities in place at more than 1,200 United States colleges and universities that recognize learning obtained away from the formal college classroom. The data were compiled from a fall 1984 survey and are presented in two sections. The first provides the programmatic information…

Interinstitutional transfer of courses and credits, acceptance of the community colleges' academic transfer degrees, and steps to be taken to achieve curricular articulation were the primary focuses of a study of the academic transfer policies of Washington state colleges and universities. Data for the study were obtained from local institutional…

Although the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), in Arizona, maintains an exemplary relationship and numerous transfer agreements with the state's public universities, systematic and operational problems still exist. Systematic problems include the accumulation of excessive college credit hours; changes in applicable transfer…

This guide represents Louisiana public higher education's initial effort to improve the transfer process by making the process of transfer and evaluation of credit more easily understandable. A student transfer guide, this document includes a matrix of forty General Education college credit courses which (with few exceptions) can transfer between…

Because the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) sets accreditation standards specifying that undergraduate business programs should concentrate their professional courses in the last 2 years of a 4-year program, and should offer only a limited amount of work below the junior year, community college transfer students…

As a sequel to a 1971-72 study, this report for 1975-76 provides an updated inventory of the programs and policies of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities through which adult part-time students may earn credit and bachelor's or master's degrees, notes significant changes since the first report, and offers suggestions for…

This report, from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, concentrates on the current status of transfer and articulation in Washington during 1997-98. It opens with an executive summary and introduction, outlining the process and results of the report, and a description of Washington's historical context of transfer and…