Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3357:15 - Stark State College › Chapter 3357:15-13 - Academics › Section 3357:15-13-25 - Transfer and articulation

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
State of Ohio's transfer and articulation policy
Stark state college abides by the Ohio department of higher
				education Ohio articulation and transfer policy
[The Ohio articulation and transfer policy: the policy | Ohio
				higher ed:
https://www.ohiohighered.org/transfer/policy
]
Institutional transfer
The Ohio department of higher education in 1990, following a
				directive of the 118th Ohio General Assembly, developed the Ohio articulation
				and transfer policy to facilitate students' ability to transfer credits from
				one Ohio public college or university to another in order to avoid duplication
				of course requirements. A subsequent policy review and recommendations produced
				by the articulation and transfer advisory council in 2004, together with
				mandates from the 125th Ohio General Assembly in the form of Amended Substitute
				House Bill 95, have prompted improvements of the original policy. Additional
				legislation from the 125th Ohio General Assembly also initiated the development
				of a statewide system for articulation agreements among state institutions of
				higher education for transfer students pursuing teacher education
				programs.
Action by the 126th Ohio General Assembly led to the
				establishment of criteria, policies, and procedures for the transfer of
				technical courses completed through a career-technical education institution
				and standards for the awarding of college credit based on advanced placement
				(AP) test scores.
Legislation from the 130th Ohio General Assembly required
				public institutions of higher education to: use baseline standards and
				procedures in the granting of college credit for military training, experience,
				and coursework; establish an appeals process for resolving disputes over the
				awarding of credit for military experience; provide specific assistance and
				support to veterans and service members; adopt a common definition of a service
				member and veteran; and establish a credit articulation system in which adult
				graduates of public career-technical institutions who complete a nine hundred
				clock-hour program of study and obtain an industry-recognized credential
				approved by the chancellor shall receive thirty college technical credit hours
				toward a technical degree upon enrollment.
While all public colleges and universities are required to
				follow the Ohio articulation and transfer policy, independent colleges and
				universities in Ohio may or may not participate in the transfer policy.
				Therefore, students interested in transferring to independent institutions are
				encouraged to check with the college or university of their choice regarding
				transfer agreements. In support of improved articulation and transfer
				processes, the Ohio department of higher education has established an
				articulation and transfer clearinghouse to receive, annotate, and convey
				transcripts among public colleges and universities. This system is designed to
				provide standardized information and help colleges and universities reduce
				undesirable variability in the transfer credit evaluation process.
Please see the Ohio articulation and transfer policy for
				additional information and appendices:
https://www.ohiohighered.org/transfer/policy
.
Application of transfer and articulated credit
The policy distinguishes between the acceptance and application
				of transfer and articulated credit by the receiving institution to the
				student's chosen program. Transfer credits accepted by the receiving
				institution will be posted to the student's record and transcript. Students
				will receive transfer credit for all college-level courses they have passed
				and/or for articulated credit for prior learning successfully completed as
				delineated in the policy. From among the credits which have been posted to the
				student's record and appear on his or her transcript, the receiving
				institution, within the provisions of this policy, will determine how credits
				will or will not be applied toward degree requirements at the receiving
				institution as follows:
(A) Ohio
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								 (
								OT36): It is assumed that a common body of
			 knowledge, comprised of a subset or the complete set of an institution's
			 general education curriculum, can be found in the associate of arts, associate
			 of science, and baccalaureate degree programs offered at various institutions.
			 An 
								OT36
			 can be drawn from this broader general education curriculum. Each
			 institution has identified its 
								OT36 according to the guidelines and learning
			 outcomes appended. Students enrolled in applied degree programs may choose to
			 go beyond their degree requirements to complete the entire
			 
								OT36.
			 Individuals who successfully complete the 
								OT36 at one
			 public institution of higher education in Ohio will be considered to have met
			 the 
								OT36
			 requirements of the receiving institution. Approved 
								OT36 courses,
			 when taken individually, are also guaranteed for transfer among public higher
			 education institutions on a course-by-course basis and are to be applied to the
			 
								OT36 of
			 the receiving institution.
(B)
			 Transfer assurance guides (TAGs): Discipline-specific guides, or pathway
			 guarantees, have been developed and explained in the policy as advising tools,
			 each containing selected courses from the existing Ohio transfer module,
			 pre-major/beginning major courses (called TAG courses), advising notes, and
			 foreign language requirement when appropriate. TAG courses are guaranteed to
			 transfer and be applied to specific TAG-related degree/program requirements as
			 equivalent courses.
(C)
			 Career-technical assurance guides (CTAGs): Built upon a similar philosophy as
			 the TAGs, CTAGs facilitate the award and transfer of college credit in
			 technical courses/ programs among public institutions of learning, including
			 secondary and adult career-technical institutions, colleges, and
			 universities.
(D) Military transfer
			 assurance guides (MTAGs): College credit is guaranteed for service members with
			 military training, experience, or coursework that is recognized by the american
			 council on education (ACE) or a regionally accredited military institution,
			 such as community college of the air force. Pathway guarantees (MTAGs) have
			 been developed to ensure the applicability of equivalent courses toward
			 specific degree and program requirements.
(E) Apprenticeship pathway programs:
			 Technology-specific statewide articulation agreements in apprenticeship
			 programs recognize non-traditional prior learning, for which college credit is
			 awarded toward a technical associate degree.
(F) Prior learning assessment (PLA): Prior
			 learning at the college-level that is acquired through means other than credit
			 course enrollment (e.g., work experience, professional training, military
			 training, or recognized examinations, certificates, and certifications) is
			 assessed through a number of rigorous evaluation methods. Credit is awarded and
			 applied within the scope of this policy. Credit transferred from public
			 institutions is transferable on the same basis as if the credit had been earned
			 through regular study at the awarding insitution. (See the definitions section
			 of this policy, prior learning and prior learning assessment).
(G) Advanced placement (AP) exams: College
			 credit is guaranteed for students who achieve an AP exam score of 3 or higher
			 in accordance with the course alignment recommendations.
(H) College-level examination program (CLEP):
			 College credit is guaranteed for students who achieve an established
			 college-level examination program (CLEP) test score for exams that have been
			 endorsed statewide as college level. Statewide faculty panels aligned CLEP
			 exams to equivalent Ohio transfer 36
								 () and transfer assurance guide (TAG) courses, as
			 appropriate. Specific endorsed alignments and scores for individual CLEP exams
			 that are outlined in the college-level examination program (CLEP) endorsed
			 alignment policies document are available on the Ohio department of higher
			 education website at
https://www.ohiohighered.org/transfer/clep
.
(I) International baccalaureate (IB) exams:
			 Each public institution of higher education in Ohio provides a policy including
			 the minimum scores and course/credit alignments for awarding college credit for
			 successfully completed international baccalaureate exams.
(J) One-year option: Adult learners are
			 awarded technical course credit toward a general associate of technical studies
			 degree for completing an occupational skills training program at an adult
			 public career-technical education institution and the respective credential
			 approved by the chancellor.
(K)
			 Associate-to-baccalaureate degree pathways: An associate degree holder from an
			 Ohio public institution of higher education is able to apply his or her
			 associate degree toward a baccalaureate degree program in an equivalent field
			 at any baccalaureate degree-granting public institution of higher
			 education.
(L) Credit when it's
			 due: Through the credit when it's due program, participating institutions
			 collaborate to exchange the academic records of eligible transfer students to
			 determine if their previously earned college credit is sufficient to be awarded
			 an associate degree or certificate by applying credit before and/or after they
			 began their current degree or certificate program.
(M) Application of credit to the major,
			 minor, and field of concentration: Other than the Ohio transfer
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								OT36),
			 transfer assurance guides (TAGs), career-technical assurance guides (CTAGs),
			 military transfer assurance guides (MTAGs), apprenticeship pathway programs,
			 advanced placement (AP) exams, the one-year option, and the "2+2" programs, the
			 application of credit for requirements in a specific academic major, minor, or
			 field of concentration will be made on a course-by-course basis by the
			 receiving institution.
(N)
			 Treatment of upper- and lower-division credit: A course completed at one public
			 institution of higher education and transferred to another will be applied to
			 the student's degree objective in the same manner as its equivalent course at
			 the receiving institution.
(O)
			 Applied associate degrees: Applied degree graduates who transfer to an
			 associate of arts (AA), associate of science (AS), or bachelor degree program
			 typically must complete additional general education courses to satisfy the
			 general education requirements. Individual 
								OT36 courses
			 completed will transfer and apply toward the OT36 of the receiving
			 institution.
(P) Non-traditional
			 credit and electives: Non-traditional credit transfers as an equivalent
			 course(s) when available at the receiving institution. If there are no
			 equivalent courses and the courses are not applicable to the TAG, CTAG, MTAG,
			 
								OT36,
			 general education requirements, or specific program requirements, such courses
			 will transfer or articulate as free or general electives when they exist in a
			 program.