THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FACULTY SENATE Senate Document Number Date of Senate Approval 3/10/94 Signature of Senate Chair ___________________________ Date _________________ Action of Vice Chancellor: Approval __________________________________ Date ____________________ Denied __________________________________ Date ____________________ Reasons for denial and suggested modifications: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Statement of Faculty Senate Action: APC Document # 19: Advanced Placement Policy Effective Date: Fall, 1994 Delete: Not Applicable Add: Page 38, following Advanced Placement Description International Baccalaureate: UNCA academic credit of three to six semester hours will be granted to enrolled students who receive a 6 or 7 on Higher Level exams in transferable subjects. Hours will not be awarded for Subsidiary-Level Exams. Official IB transcripts will be evaluated by the Registrar in consultation with Academic Department Chairs. Impact: This policy will give UNCA one more tool in the recruiting of high ability students. We presently award AP credit to approximately one third of the entering Freshman class. We expect to begin seeing IB transcripts with the freshmen entering in the fall of 1994 given that there are now approved IB schools in Charlotte and Raleigh. Rationale: The IB program has been operating since the early 1980's in high schools in the north east and western United States as well as in many US International schools. We are beginning to see the development of IB programs in academic magnet schools in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. This policy mirrors that in place at Davidson, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and Furman. The Registrar at Davidson reports that their review of AP and IB course equivalencies demonstrates that IB is both rigorous and comprehensive and some of their top students are entering from IB programs. We are also in receipt of a correlation study done at Case Western Reserve. This analysis was performed on students who had taken both AP and IB exams. This data should prove helpful as we develop specific equivalency tables like the one included with our AP policy. We discussed this policy with Dr. Phyllis Lang, Director of the Honors Program and Dr. Kathy Whatley. Director of the Undergraduate Research Program and both were enthusiastic about the possibility of being able to attract students graduating from IB programs. Dr. Forest Davenport (1993 Chair of APC) reviewed the test materials last spring and was supportive of their inclusion in the catalog.