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Christine Arnold Ph.D. Candidate University of Toronto/OISE The Student Mobility Challenge
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
