19 Tex. Admin. Code § 4.36 - Evaluation of Field of Study Curricula
(a)
Every five years, following the same timetable as the regular accreditation
reports sent to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on
Colleges or its successor, each public institution of higher education shall
review and evaluate its policies and practices regarding the acceptance and
application of credit earned as part of a Board-approved Field of Study
Curriculum, and report the results of that evaluation to the Board. The
evaluation should include:
(1) the extent to
which the institution's compliance with the acceptance of transfer credit
through Field of Study Curricula is being achieved;
(2) the extent to which the institution's
application to the appropriate degree program of credit earned as part of a
Board-approved Field of Study Curriculum facilitates academic success;
and
(3) the effectiveness of Field
of Study Curricula in the retention and graduation of transfer students in
those degree programs that have Board-approved Field of Study
Curricula.
(b) Each
institution's evaluation report must contain at least the following:
(1) a listing of the institution's degree
programs or tracks that have Board-approved Field of Study Curricula;
(2) a description of the institution's
policies and practices regarding applicable Board-approved field of study
curricula, including admission-point evaluation of transfer credit, advising
practices (including catalogue and website information on existing Field of
Study Curricula and advising/counseling practices for enrolled students), and
transcripting practices to show Field of Study Curriculum participation and
completion; and
(3) a chart or
table showing the number of total transfer students for each degree program
that has a Board-approved Field of Study Curriculum, for each of the last five
years; the chart should indicate year-by-year the percentage of students who
transferred having completed the applicable Field of Study Curriculum, the
percentage of students who transferred without having completed the applicable
Field of Study Curriculum, and any information about progress toward graduation
or graduation rates that can compare transfer student performance with
non-transfer student performance during the evaluation period.
(c) The Texas Transfer Advisory
Committee shall review all Field of Study Curricula approved on or after March
1, 2021, every four years from their date of Board approval. In developing a
schedule of review as set out in Chapter 1, Subchapter V, §1.239, the
Texas Transfer Advisory Committee shall consider reasonable factors, including
prioritizing development of frameworks in high enrollment and high need
disciplines. The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee may review a Field of Study
Curricula more frequently if the Commissioner or Texas Transfer Advisory
Committee identifies a need, including but not limited to, discipline changes
of subject matter content, emerging and/or changing technologies or
business/industry standards, changes in credentialing and/licensure
requirements, or changes in programmatic accreditation.
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