Centralized Scheduling and Curriculum

Articulation Agreement Policy

Responsibility

The Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department is responsible for formalizing, processing, and housing transfer and articulation agreements.

Purpose

Transfer and Articulation Agreements:

• provide a written commitment of support to simplify the transfer process.
• acknowledge transfer students have met certain competencies and therefore will not be required to repeat competencies already achieved.
• allow the transfer of the associate degree and its elements.

Criteria

Criteria to establish transfer and articulation agreements:

• accredited institution - degree granting institution will be regionally accredited.
• demand - a substantial number of AWC students have transferred into, are currently enrolled in, or have graduated from the degree granting institution.
• beneficial - the degree granting institution is beneficial to AWC students in terms of program offerings and geographic location and/or online access.
• mission - the degree granting institution supports students in their quest for higher education.
• ease of transfer - degree granting institution supports the concept of seamless transfer and acknowledges that transfer students have met certain competencies and therefore will not be required to repeat competencies already achieved. 

Procedure

The Executive Director of Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects  recommends additions, deletions, and modifications of articulation agreements to the President of Arizona Western College.

All agreements will be processed as follows:

•  Articulation agreements will be received through the Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department.
  • Articulation agreements will be reviewed by the Executive Director of Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects, in conjunction with the Director of Transfer Services and the Director of Guided Pathways.
    • Articulation agreements with program specific pathways are reviewed every year to update which pathways offered by receiving institution.
    • Articulation agreements with program specific pathways are reviewed every year to update course requirements of receiving institution.
    • Articulation agreements with program specific pathways are reviewed every year to update program/course modifications of sending institution.
    • New program specific pathways are established by the faculty of the sending institution and the receiving institution pathway coordinator, then by the Executive Director of Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects, in conjunction with the Director of Transfer Services and the Director of Guided Pathways.
    • If at any point in the process the Executive Director of Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects, in conjunction with the Director of Transfer Services and the Director of Guided Pathways questions one or all parts of an articulation agreement or specific pathways appropriate personnel are consulted before making a determination.
• Articulation agreements will be mailed to all parties involved by the Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department.
• The Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department will review active agreements every year to ensure they are being maintained and supported.
  • In support of the agreements the Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department will notify the degree granting institutions of course and program modifications, deletions, and additions as they are approved.
  • The Executive Director of Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects will discuss the level of support that is being demonstrated by degree granting institutions as well as the number of students transferring to and/or graduating from these institutions with the Director of Transfer Services and the Director of Guided Pathways to determine if the agreement should continue and how best to support the individual agreements.
  • Agreements found to be lacking support from one or both institutions will be removed from the active agreement list.
• Articulation agreements will be housed in the Centralized Scheduling, Assessment, Curriculum, & Special Projects Department.

Promotion

The Transfer Services Office will promote the transfer and articulation agreements.

• All active agreements will be supported and promoted by the Transfer Services Office.
• Agreements which are being actively supported by the degree granting institution will receive a higher level of support and promotion form the Director of Transfer Services .
  • The Director of Transfer Services will keep record of institutions in which AWC has an agreement who are not actively supporting their agreement and report that information yearly.