Board considers articulation agreement by Shelly Raynor
Colleges in Idaho will have Lo forfeit the right to detennine 1hdr 1odividual requiremenLS iI the State Board of Education passes an aniculation agrcemcn1. NIC Dean or Academic Affairs Dennis Conners predicts that the agrccmcnt currcolly before the Board will be passed this summer and 11.iU aff~t all Idaho colleges in addiJfon to Oregon's Treasure Valley Col· legc this fall. The propOSal ensures lha1 studcnis receiving a degree from a two year college can uan.sfcr to a university at junior sutw. Alw, according 10 Conners, studcou "'111 be able to rransfcr naedit hours as opposed to the current 64. "Someone can attend NIC and complete two years without taking lower level classes after tran.sfering," he said. "They can stay close 10 home and it'll be cbcapCT. "
Plus, Con.ners says, they can nay in the state and
that's more cost efficient. "It's taken a long time 10 make an agreement," he said. "Deans from the colleges have talked for quite some time, about three years, and finally the Slllte Board said the policy should be enforced.•· " It's best for the college. lo the past, student's at· ti1udes have been, 'why even start here (a1 Niq when many of the credits don't uan.sfer 10 uni,·crsities.'" Since the State Board apparently was worrying about loosing srudcnts and iunJ.s 10 out of st.ate colleges., they decided to push this policy through, Conners added. It was a difficult agreement 10 make, according to Conners, since each college had different core courses and they had 10 agree on a standard set. ''We (NIC classes) were having to pass judgement with other coUcgQ," he said. This agreement will obviously benefit NIC students,
CoMers said. but some of the other universities aren't in favor of the policy. "Encb college thinks they should make 1heir own decisions as 10 what they require and many of 1he col· lege faculties have spent years deciding on 1hcse courses." Conners said. "They felt that everyone graduating from their col· lege had tht same education and that isn '1 necessarily uue anymore.'' ~e State Board bas pushed this thing through and while they (colleges) know it's going to happen, not all of them are real happy about it, he added. Conners traveJed to Boise April 24 to meet wi1h legislators, and. according 10 h.im, the final document and recommendation went through the rtrSt of its three readings before it is passed. "Other States alrecdy have agreements like this. We're just getting started, " Conners added.
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