DUAL CREDIT AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT:

Indiana’s Approach to Student Success

STATEWIDE TRANSFER AND ARTICULATION COMMITTEE (STAC)

Legislatively created in 2000 Placed under the direction of the Indiana

Commission for Higher Education (ICHE)

Purpose was to advance State transfer

initiatives

Chaired by a past Faculty Commission

member Membership includes all public institutions and

representatives from the independent colleges

WORK OF STAC 2001: Articulation agreements with all 4-yr

public campuses for 8 VU associate degrees (1st statewide agreements in State’s history)

2002: STAC increases approved statewide transfer courses to 40

2003: General Assembly passes law demanding accountability from STAC

WORK OF STAC (CONTINUED)

2005: General Assembly establishes the Core Transfer Library (CTL) with 70 courses and 12 programs that will transfer and count at all State institutions

2006: Transfer Indiana Central Office was established and funded

TRANSFER INDIANA 2008: Launched TransferIN.net

Purpose: the State’s official resource for transfer information

Originally developed to address transferring credits college-to-college

With the advent of Indiana Core40 Honor’s diploma, it became a resource for dual credit and Advanced Placement information

RESOURCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND COUNSELORS

Information you will find:

Admissions Advanced Placement Core Transfer Library Dual Credit Financial Aid Indiana Colleges and Universities Terms to Know Transfer Contacts

TRANSFERIN.NET

www.transferin.net

ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) Background

Legislation (House Enrolled Act 1135) passed in 2009

“a student who…receives a satisfactory score on the advanced placement examination is entitled to receive…post-secondary level academic credit at a state educational institution that counts toward meeting the student’s degree requirements, if elective credit is part of the student’s degree requirement.”

The law defines a “satisfactory score” as a 3, 4, or 5

Went into effect July 1, 2010

ADVANCED PLACEMENT SEARCHABLE DATABASE

Public Colleges/Universities: www.transferin.net/ap.aspx

Independent Colleges/Universities: www.icindiana.org/pal/index.asp

CORE TRANSFER LIBRARY (CTL) Background

2005: General Assembly established the CTL with 70 courses that will transfer and count at all State institutions

Currently there are 85 courses listed in the CTL

Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) were not included in the original CTL but have recently developed a searchable database to reflect their courses

CTL SEARCHABLE DATABASE

Public Colleges/Universities: www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/CTL.as

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Independent Colleges/Universities: www.icindiana.org/pal/index.asp

DUAL CREDIT Background

ICHE develops Policy on Dual Credit Courses in November, 2005

Legislatively mandated study group (HEA 1246): Concurrent Enrollment Partnership formed in 2008, final report provided in September, 2009

Governor’s Education Roundtable formed the Dual Credit Advisory Counsel in 2010

Dual Credit Advisory Counsel names Dual Credit Review Subcommittee in 2010

DUAL CREDIT REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE Subcommittee of STAC

Purpose was to develop a method of assessing dual credit programs in all State higher education institutions (public and independent)

2011: Developed a set of standards relating to programs where high school students are taught college courses by high school teachers in the high school during the regularly scheduled high school day

DUAL CREDIT APPROVAL PROCESS

The State process involves a National Alliance for Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) -like method developed specifically for State institutions (public and independent) who are not NACEP accredited

Institutions needing State approval have completed the first stage toward approval and have begun collecting information for the second stage to be completed by November 2012

PREFERRED PROVIDER LIST FOR HIGH SCHOOL DELIVERY ICHE and IDOE encourage high schools to

choose from the Preferred Provider List when establishing a program in the high school

Schools may also choose to establish a program with an out-of-state NACEP accredited provider.

This ICHE endorsement and/or NACEP accreditation are a quality control assurance that high schools should consider when entering in to a partnership.

PREFERRED PROVIDER LIST FOR HIGH SCHOOL DELIVERY

Institutions who are approved by the State approval process or NACEP accredited are placed on this list

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

ON-CAMPUS OR DISTANCE EDUCATION/ONLINE DUAL CREDIT PROVIDER LIST

Institutions who provide dual credit by bringing high school students to campus, take professors to the high school to teach a course, or through distance education or online delivery methods

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (IDOE) LIBERAL ARTS PRIORITY LIST

IDOE has developed a Liberal Arts Priority List which lists courses that will fulfill the Core40 Academic Honors diploma option starting with the class of 2016

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

IDOE PRIORITY DUAL CREDIT COLLEGE AND CAREER PREPARATION COURSES PRIORITY LIST

IDOE developed a list of courses that will fulfill the Core40 Technical Honors diploma option starting with the class of 2016

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

ADVISING STUDENTS To maximize the transferability of the courses

students take for dual credit; the CTL (public and independent), the Dual Credit webpage, and u.select become primary resources

CTL www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Cr

edit.aspx

ICI CTL www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Cr

edit.aspx

ADVISING STUDENTS (CONTINUED)

Dual Credit www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Cr

edit.aspx

u.select www.transfer.org/uselect/login.htm

ICHE POLICY ON DUAL CREDIT

The Policy developed in 2005 has recently been reviewed and updated to reflect the new technologies and formats available

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

DUAL CREDIT Q&A

If you have questions concerning Dual Credit, the Q&A is a good resource

www.transferin.net/High-School-Students/Dual-Credit.aspx

QUESTIONS?

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Ione Y. DeOllosSTAC ChairAssociate ProfessorDepartment of

SociologyBall State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306ideollos@bsu.edu765-285-5470

Ms. Tari G. LambertDirector, Transfer

IndianaIndiana Commission for

Higher Education400 ½ N. McKinley

AvenueMuncie, IN 47306tglambert@bsu.edu765-285-5810