PREFILED JAN 05 2010
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REFERENCE TITLE: colleges; transfer articulation; direct equivalency |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010
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HB 2040 |
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Introduced by Representative Kavanagh
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AN ACT
amending section 15-1824, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to postsecondary education.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 15-1824, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
15-1824. Transfer articulation; annual report; definition
A. The community college districts and universities shall cooperate in operating a statewide articulation and transfer system, including the process for transfer of lower division general education credits, general elective credits and curriculum requirements for approved majors, to facilitate the transfer of community college students to Arizona public universities without a loss of credit toward a baccalaureate degree and to ensure that the postsecondary education needs of students statewide are met without unnecessary duplication of programs.
B. The statewide articulation and transfer system shall include the following:
1. The articulation of up to ninety credits per student for 100-level courses, 200-level courses and 300-level courses.
2. A requirement that transfer credits awarded for a course taken by a student at another institution be accepted, if possible, as the direct equivalent of a course offered by the institution that accepts the transfer credits. Courses accepted as a direct equivalent by one department of an institution shall be accepted as either elective courses in that department or general elective courses by any other department of that institution.
3. A requirement that if transfer credits for a course are submitted for direct equivalency status pursuant to paragraph 2 and the institution determines that the course for which the credits were originally earned is not a direct equivalent of a course offered by that institution, the institution notify the other institution within one hundred twenty days of specific recommendations to modify the course into a direct equivalent of a course offered by that institution.
4. Authority for the Arizona board of regents to limit or exempt the articulation of certain courses offered at a university under its jurisdiction if the board determines that those courses are offered only in unique academic programs with specialized admission requirements that make it unfeasible for any other institution to offer a suitable direct equivalent of that course.
B. C. The Arizona board of regents and the community college districts shall submit an annual report of their progress on both articulation and meeting statewide postsecondary education needs to the joint legislative budget committee on or before December 15 and shall provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state and the director of the Arizona state library, archives and public records.
D. For the purposes of this section, "direct equivalent" means a course that is accepted as substantially equivalent, but not necessarily identical, to a course offered by another institution because the courses fulfill the same requirements.