Joanne Benschop, MiraCosta College

Dave DeGroot, Allan Hancock College

Melynie Schiel, Copper Mountain College

“Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer”

Awesome

System

Supporting

Institutions’

Stellar efforts

To develop good curriculum…

Will the course I am developing be accepted in the CSU or IGETC general education patterns? Ref documents:

http://icas-ca.org/standards-policies-and-procedures-manual

http://www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-1033.html Then course search function

What courses do students in the major need for transfer?

Does my existing course articulate and, if so, where?

How does our current course inventory meet the GE area needs?

What courses are other local colleges using for general education areas?

What courses have been designated as transferable AKA “baccalaureate” by other curriculum committees?

Front end: Major requirements and major articulation

One-to-one report

List a college’s courses in inventory that meet specific criteria CSU General Education areas IGETC Etc.

Listed courses deemed “transferable” by the curriculum committee (different than articulation)

Back end: Allows for key word searches of all courses in

ASSIST inventory Permit searches by various criteria

CSU or UC accepted Outline on file Number of units LDTP qualified

Does not have Recently updated limiter C-ID information

Access to the front end is available to everyone. www.assist.org

To get into the back end and search the database, you will need a username and password from your articulation officer. It is different from the password he or she uses to

update the database.

If forget how to get into the database, you can always go to the main page: www.assist.org and click on “ASSIST Information Center”

The direct link is http://info.assist.org.

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Searching the ASSIST database for the first time can overwhelm you with

powerful knowledge and extensive ideas. Be cautious and have a

question in mind before using the database.

Enter at your own risk.

What, if any, general education areas are met by a course like this?

What other courses do we have in our inventory to meet this general education requirement?

What content is covered by other colleges? What books are they using?

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An institution is thinking about burying their Death and Dying course. What impact will that have on transfer going forward?

This course is articulated in two majors, a liberal studies major and a religious studies major. Is the course part of a list of options? Is the course required?

The Death and Dying course is given new life after reviewing the articulation agreements and the student major data at our college.

We decide to revise the course and want to make sure the content will give the students as much mileage as possible in terms of transfer and articulation.

Are there some relatively current course outlines we can peek at?

As part of program review, faculty should ensure that their courses are articulating. Where a course may fit in a general education pattern isn’t always easy to spot.

Business program faculty heard that some schools had a financial literacy course fulfill a certain area of the general education pattern. Is that true?

I can now browse for how other schools articulate courses for GE areas…

Can this make a course more viable?

Hmm….