Recommendations for the Transfer and Articulation Task Force
Submitted by: Kansas Council of Instructional Administrators
Council of Presidents


1. Facilitate a process to determine the general education objectives of the first two years of education in Kansas.
2. Utilize the Core Outcomes Project to create common courses with common general education outcomes. This would standardize the 100 and 200-level general education courses at all Kansas institutions.
3. All Kansas higher education institutions will be required to participate in the Core Outcomes Project.
4. Institutional syllabi would be required to identify the common general education outcomes as well as a statement identifying that the course had been approved through the Core Outcomes Project.
5. All courses approved through the Core Outcomes Project will transfer without question to any institution across the state.
6. Courses approved through the Core Outcomes Project will be reviewed every 3 years.
7. Review currently established “best practices” for transfer and articulation from other states to determine if some might be adopted as the Kansas model.
8. Enforce seamless transfer among all Regents institutions and eliminate the hierarchy within institutions that allows program heads or department chairs to halt transfer.
9. For all courses that are approved through the Core Outcomes Project, create a common course numbering system that would be used in transfer and articulation guides, through advising, and in promotional materials allowing students, parents and institutions to identify transfer courses at a glance. Individual institutions would maintain their current course numbering systems and the common course numbering system would be created as a “bridged system” between institutions.
10. Eliminate restrictions on transferability based on course delivery method.
11. Create a course outcome accountability system with a set of minimum assessment criteria. All institutions would be required to teach all outcomes and assess the results. Institutions would have the ability to use additional assessment measures beyond the minimum standards. Institutions not meeting the assessment outcomes could face transfer sanctions.
12. Develop comprehensive, but understandable, transfer and articulation guidelines approved by KBOR to reflect these changes. From those guidelines, create common “language” to be used by all institutions when referring to transfer and articulation opportunities.
13. Create a usable and consistent appeals process which includes a KBOR Academic Affairs staff member as ombudsperson. The appeal process should allow an institution to request further review beyond the level of the ombudsperson to BAASC.