| (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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