1980-81

                                SENATE DOCUMENT #7



                                 APC DOCUMENT #7 

                            Policy on Transfer Students





        The Academic Policies Committee recommends to the Faculty Senate

        adoption of the following policy on transfer students:  





        p. 34 Transfer Students 



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        Applicants for admission must be in good academic standing as

        defined by the institution from which they are transferring.  The

        minimum acceptable grade point average must conform to the policy

        (see p. 53) governing UNCA students who have attempted the

        equivalent number of hours.  Transfer students with fewer than the

        equivalent of 24 semester hours must also meet the entrance

        requirements of beginning freshmen (noted above).  



        The University will accept from other regionally accredited

        institutions courses for transfer credit provided that they are not

        incompatible with the University's programs and have been completed

        with a passing grade.  



        The Policies concerning Developmental Studies are also applicable

        to transfer students.  





        Courses to satisfy the requirements of the major programs are to be

        judged individually.  They should be generally equivalent in

        information and methodology to courses in the major.  In cases of

        doubt the chairman of the major department will determine the

        equivalence.  



        Courses may be accepted as electives if they are not part of the

        All-University requirements or required for the major.  Applied

        courses, whether technical or methodological (except in the Fine

        Arts), are not to be considered elective courses, unless they are

        directly related to the major.  In cases of doubt about direct

        relationship, the chairman of the major department will decide.  



        Courses proposed for transfer credit are evaluated by the

        Registrar's Office and in cases of doubt, as mentioned above, by

        the chairman of the major department.  This policy is to be applied

        only to those students who enroll for the first time at the

        University for Fall, 1981, and subsequently.  





        Rationale:  The state-wide Guidelines for Transfer (April, 1980)

        indicate that there should be equitable treatment of transfer


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        students and that policies should not put them at a disadvantage in

        comparision with other students.  They call for granting credit for

        all passing grades.  



        The phrase "not incompatible with the University's programs"

        recognizes that there may not be a specific course equivalent at

        the moment in our curriculum.  Given the continual presenting of

        Special Topics courses and the growth of programs, the demand for

        course-by-course equivalences has been unnecessarily restrictive.  



        An Associate in Arts degree is designed specifically to provide two

        years of general education.  These degrees are accredited by the

        same agencies that accredit UNCA and should be recognized as valid. 



        Since Bibliography is designed as a tool to be taken early in a

        college career, one who enters halfway through junior year will not

        have completed that course until ready to enter the last year of

        college.  The value of the course is seriously reduced, through no

        fault of the student.  



        Some transfers may need developmental studies to succeed and should

        be under the policy governing other students.  



        Some kinds of technical courses may actually enhance the knowledge

        of the student in a major program.  Consequently some of these

        courses should be recognized as electives, at the discretion of the

        chairman.  (For our own students we do not care at all whether

        their electives are helpful or not!) 



        The policy does not apply to students who are now enrolled under

        present policies.  To re-evaluate all transcripts and re-construct

        new course requirements is impossible.  





                        (Passed by Faculty Senate 10/23/80)