Bill Text: IN SB0182 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State educational institutions; credit transfers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-03-16 - Signed by the Governor [SB0182 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-SB0182-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 21-18-9-7; IC 21-42.
Synopsis: State educational institutions; credit transfers. Requires the
commission for higher education, in collaboration with the state
educational institutions, to develop, implement, and maintain a
common course numbering system for general education curriculum
courses, and to establish statewide standards to document an
individual's completion of a general education curriculum on the
individual's transcript. Requires each state educational institution to
identify and publish at least 30 general education semester credit hours
that, if satisfactorily completed by an individual, the individual may not
be required to repeat at another state educational institution. Requires
a state educational institution to give priority in admissions to an
individual who holds an associate degree over an out-of-state applicant.
Provides that an individual who holds an associate degree is considered
to have met at least 30 semester credit hours of the general education
requirements for a bachelor's degree. Requires a state educational
institution to accept an associate degree from another state educational
institution as credit toward a related bachelor's degree.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
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higher education.
(1) develop, implement, and maintain a common course numbering system to be used by the state educational institutions for:
(A) all courses in the core transfer library (as defined in IC 21-42-1-3); and
(B) each state educational institution's general education curriculum; and
(2) establish statewide standards for use by all state educational institutions to document an individual's completion of the state educational institution's general education curriculum on the individual's transcripts.
1, 2012]: Sec. 2. The Each state educational institutions jointly
institution shall identify and publish at least thirty (30) semester
credit hours of comparable general education courses, that including
courses in communication, quantitative reasoning, social and
behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, and natural sciences, that
are eligible to be earned by a student to fulfill graduation requirements
at each the state educational institution.
(1) the integrity of the published curriculum shall be recognized by the other state educational institutions; and
(2) an individual who has satisfactorily completed the general education curriculum at a state educational institution, as indicated on the individual's official transcript, may not be required to complete additional courses in the general education curriculum of another state educational institution to which the individual transfers, regardless of whether the individual has received an associate degree or the delivery method of the general education curriculum the individual completed.
(b) If an individual does not complete the general education curriculum of a state educational institution before transferring to another state educational institution, the individual must complete the general education curriculum required by the state educational institution to which the individual has transferred. The state educational institution to which the individual has transferred shall award credit to the individual for courses the individual has satisfactorily completed, based on the course to course equivalencies of the core transfer library established under IC 21-42-5.
(c) A four (4) year state educational institution shall give priority in admissions to an applicant who holds an associate of arts or associate of science degree approved by the commission over an out-of-state applicant if the applicants meet the same admissions criteria.
(d) An individual who holds an associate of arts or associate of science degree approved by the commission who is admitted to a four (4) year state educational institution is considered to have met at least thirty (30) semester credit hours of the state educational institution's general education requirement.
(1) the individual completes all degree requirements for the appropriate associate degree; and
(2) the state educational institution that awards the degree makes available specified general education learning outcomes and program-specific learning outcomes for the associate degree;
whether the credits are earned as individual courses or within block programs.
(b) A state educational institution may not require an individual who holds an associate of arts or associate of science degree from another state educational institution to repeat or take additional lower level courses to fulfill bachelor's degree requirements in the same major as the associate degree. An individual who holds an associate of arts or associate of science degree shall be granted admission to related upper level bachelor's degree programs of a state educational institution to which the individual transfers in the same manner as students who satisfactorily complete lower level courses at the state educational institution to which the individual transferred.
