GOAL: Students will be able to seamlessly plan their academic journeys between schools and will not encounter obstacles on their chosen academic journey
Portable Student Record: The Student will own his/her Academic Record (Transcript) and be able to share it with any Recipient without needing to request it from a source institution
Students will be able to see how a course will transfer to a destination school, before enrolling in a course
Students will be able to see how a course will meet Degree Requirements before enrolling in the course
GOAL: Students will not lose credits in moving between schools
Articulation Agreements: Schools will collaborate to enact formal agreements on how courses and credentials (e.g. Associates degree) will be accepted among them
Policies and Agreements will lean toward the student’s benefit wherever possible. Policies will find ways to accept courses instead of denying them; credits will not be unreasonably denied
GOAL: Transferability and Degree applicability will be transparent and predictable
Degree requirements will be available in a digital form in databases
Degree requirements will be presented in a common-sense way that students can easily understand
Databases containing equivalencies, articulation agreements and degree applicability will be Integration (API) Friendly so they can integrate w/ student facing websites, apps and SIS
GOAL: Schools will be able to electronically serve their students who are planning to go Outbound to another school (example community college to university)
The school’s SIS (e.g. Ellucian, PeopleSoft etc) will be able to provide students with their Portable Digital Record (portable transcript)
The school’s SIS will be able to integrate to articulation agreements such that they can display transferability to their students
GOAL: Receiving Schools will be able to electronically serve their Inbound Students timely and accurately without undue manual burdens
SIS of Receiving Schools will be able to automatically intake the incoming record without having to re-key it by hand
Receiving schools will automatically produce transfer articulation results that can be shared with the incoming student
Receiving schools will automatically produce Degree Progress reports that show the incoming student how credits count toward degree objectives
Receiving schools will allow the student to Model “What If” scenarios to explore optimum academic routes
