Wednesday, November 1, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Too cute for cavities
Rhizanna Prince, age 3, sports a zebra costume at the Lawrence Early Childhood Special Services in the Dole Center. All of the children at the center dressed up and received Halloween candy yesterday. Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
Senate wants fair transfer system
By Kursten Phelps
Kansan staff writer
Claudia Meng didn't lose many hours when she transferred to the University of Kansas from a community college, but she nearly had to start again in her major.
Meng, Garden City senior, transferred two years ago from Garden City Community College. She said all of her credit hours transferred but most as electives, and she was forced to take several similar psychology classes again at the University.
"Of course at the university level, you don't have the individual attention, but the content was pretty much the same," Meng said. "It was definitely comparable. I think they should have transferred."
Student Body President Ben Walker and student leaders from other Regents universities want to make transferring easier. As members of the Student Advisory Committee of the Board of Regents, they are researching possible solutions that will make transferring between Kansas colleges and universities easier.
"It's a continuing problem, and there's no way to completely solve it, but it's one step in the right
direction." he said.
Walker said one possible solution was to create a common numbering system for classes at Regents universities and community colleges. For example, the introductory English class at every school would be called English 101, making it easier to transfer credits.
Walker said he was not sure about the system, citing possible limitations of academic freedom as a problem. If classes were commonly numbered, he said it could lead to class standards being set at the Rezents level.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost for academic services, said logistics, not academic freedom, were the main problem with a common numbering system.
"Our numbering system is tied into our student record systems, the line numbers, the ARTS system, so many different things, that the sheer computer programming involved would be complicated," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
The solution Walker said he preferred was a Web site where students could see how their classes would transfer at any Regents school or community college.
10 me, if a class is fairly equivalent, that's up to the University to decide if it will accept that class,
TRANSFER CREDIT
the Student Advisory Committee, made up of the student body presidents of Regents universities, is developing ideas to make it simpler to transfer credit from one Kansas school to another.
Possible solutions include a Web site that would list how classes transfer from one Kansas school to another and a common class numbering system at Kansas community colleges and Regents universities.
and it's their right to do that." Walker said.
Planning ahead and good communication with advisers helps to ease a lot of transfer problems, said Cathy Tillman, Hutchinson junior, who transferred from Hutchinson Community College. The 62 credit hours she took at the community college transferred without much difficulty.
"The advisers there were really involved in all that because there were a lot of people who were going to transfer to KU or K-State," Tillman said. "They helped us make sure we were not taking any classes we didn't need to take."
- Edited by Sara Nutt
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