Tuesday, January 12, 2010
College Transfer Bill Clears House
KENTUCKY....
Officials want to increase community-college transfers to four-year institutions from 4,009 this past fall to 11,300 by 2020. House Bill 160, a measure that would make it easier for community college students to transfer to four-year public universities, passed the House Education Committee 25-0 Tuesday morning and could be considered by the full House as early as Friday. The measure would require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to align its arts and science courses with bachelor’s-degree programs at the state universities and prohibit the universities from requiring KCTCS graduates to repeat or take additional lower-level courses in the same major. HB 160 also limits public university bachelor’s degree programs to 120 credit hours and associate degree programs to 60 credit hours, with exceptions for programs such as teaching, engineering and nursing.
Officials want to increase community-college transfers to four-year institutions from 4,009 this past fall to 11,300 by 2020. House Bill 160, a measure that would make it easier for community college students to transfer to four-year public universities, passed the House Education Committee 25-0 Tuesday morning and could be considered by the full House as early as Friday. The measure would require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to align its arts and science courses with bachelor’s-degree programs at the state universities and prohibit the universities from requiring KCTCS graduates to repeat or take additional lower-level courses in the same major. HB 160 also limits public university bachelor’s degree programs to 120 credit hours and associate degree programs to 60 credit hours, with exceptions for programs such as teaching, engineering and nursing.
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