Year Colleges IDENTIFIERS Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Presents an analysis of legislative policy actions and coordinating board mandates related to articulation and transfer in the state of Texas. Policy analysis techniques enabled an examination of the reasons the Texas Legislature and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board created policy actions concerning articulation and transfer, the resulting policy actions, and the outcomes of those policy actions. This study identified several reasons for changing the articulation and transfer policy in Texas, including: increased student mobility, difficulties faced by community college students when transferring credit, lost transfer credit, increased number of transfer students, elimination of duplicate courses in order to realize financial savings, and time to degree. Two main avenues utilized by the state of Texas to standardize credit transfer are a fully transferable core curriculum and field of study curriculum. Following an analysis of reasons behind Texas ' current transfer and articulation policy and the policy itself, the outcomes of the policy analysis demonstrate that students are transferring at a higher rate and that the number of students transferring has also increased. (Contains 184 references.) (RC) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document