Christine Arnold Ph.D. Candidate University of Toronto/OISE

The Student Mobility Challenge

Transforming a Loosely Coupled System

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1 Vision 2000

Pitman Report: Task Force on Advanced Training

The Port Hope Accord

Postsecondary Education Choice and Excellence ActThe Rae Review

College-University Consortium Council (CUCC)

Steering Committee on Credit TransferHonourable John Miloy -73.7 M / 5 years

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ONCATPortal

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Spend afternoon investigating transfer policies

at each institution

Limited General Arts and Science college to university course

equivalencies

Unable to plan credit-by- credit

transfer accurately Difficulty locating

transfer advisor/staff

Asked to submit course outlines for credit

assessments

Investigate increased multilateral articulation

agreements View terms for agreement renewals and cancellations

View new transfer student

orientations

Investigate the OPTG compare

function

Save search results in OPTG to review

tomorrow

Why Student Mobility?

Do our Options Change our Need for a Transfer System?

Ontario Online Institute• 40% of Alberta’s online Athabasca University students come

from Ontario“Credit transfer is about more than online learning and is already being addressed through a more substantial system

response”

Campus 2020: Thinking Ahead-Teaching Intensive Universities

•Cohort of 23,506 students, 19 institutions, fall 2003, eligible to transfer to a research intensive university in 2004/05•Student Transition Project data-2009/10 academic year

Teaching Intensive Universities

Fall of 2004, 7,408 (31.5%) of the ETR’s enrolled at a teaching intensive university

931 (12.6%) of these students subsequently transferred to a research intensive university

4,338 (18.5%) earned Bachelor’s degree or higher

1,233 (5.2%) earned diploma or certificate

• Campus merger with the University of Alberta on July 1, 2004,

• Augustana University College became Augustana Faculty

“A liberal arts and sciences education helps form the whole person, leadership is strongest when in service to

others, and cooperation is critical to success”

College First- and Second-year University Level Arts & Sciences

BiologyAugustanaBIO 216 Athabasc

aBIOL 3xx Universit

y of Lethbridge

BIOL2xx Concordia University College

BES 225

University of Calgary

ZOOL 377

University of Alberta

ZOOL 225

Satellite Campuses: College- University Combinations

Questions for Consideration

Thank-youChristine Helen Arnold

Ph.D. Candidate, Higher EducationOISE/University of Toronto

c.arnold@utoronto.ca