Regents committee advances systemwide transfer courses after TAC quality-assurance briefing

Dr. Wyscomb summarized the transfer-courses item and praised faculty co-chairs who led the discipline groups that developed equivalencies. He urged committee members to review the online transfer portal that lists course equivalencies.

Casey Freitas Chapes, associate university registrar at the University of Kansas and TAC co-chair, presented TAC’s quality assurance report and data on systemwide transfer during the 2022 academic year. She said 32 Kansas institutions participate in the process and that 120 courses are in the Kansas systemwide transfer inventory. At the recent CACOG event, faculty developed outcomes for six new courses and reviewed 20 course outcomes; TAC then received reports from each discipline co-chair and submitted them for further review. Chapes presented comparative GPA data showing transfer students’ outcomes in many gateway courses (English composition, college algebra and selected sciences) are comparable to non-transfer peers, and noted continued monitoring of chemistry sequences where more variation was observed.

After the presentation, committee members praised the faculty work and moved to advance the six transfer-course items to the board discussion agenda; the motion carried. Committee members asked staff to provide data if there are specific instances in which transfer students appear not to be succeeding so the board can investigate with evidence rather than anecdotes.