1. ASSIST and C-ID How can they help?

2. Transferrable Course Requirements When developing transferable courses (#s 1-99) it is required to locate a lower division parallel course taught at California State University (CSU) or the University of California (UC). If a course from CSU is cited and it is an acceptable parallel, the Articulation Specialist designates the course as CSU transferable after approval from the State Chancellor’s Office. If a course from UC is cited, the Articulation Specialist must submit the course outline to the UC Office of the President (UCOP) for review and approval. UC proposed courses are submitted to UCOP once a year in July. Until the course is approved by UCOP, the course is frozen in SIS. Additionally, citing a lower division parallel is the best way to ensure that the course can be articulated or submitted for the IGETC or CSU General Education/Breadth requirements.

3. UC Courses SRJC UC numbered courses are identified as 1-49 It is a requirement that there is at least one lower division comparable courses identified as 1-99 at any UC campus. UC courses must follow the timeline provided by CRC and have to go through the formal submission process via UCTCA in July of each year. They must be approved by UCOP prior to be offered on campus.

4. CSU Courses SRJC CSU numbered courses are identified as 50-99 It is a local campus requirement that there is at least one lower division comparable courses identified as 100-299 at most CSU campuses- The exceptions are: CSU East Bay and CSU Stanislaus Lower Division 1000-2999 CSU Fresno, CSU Sacramento and San Jose State Lower Division 1-99 CSU numbered courses can be offered once CRC, the Board of Trustees, and the State Chancellor’s Office have reviewed and approved the course. The local requirement is in place to protect students from being denied course credit once they have reached their destination CSU campus.

5. What is ASSIST.org ASSIST is an online student-transfer information system that shows how course credits earned at one public California college or university can be applied when transferred to another. ASSIST is the official repository of articulation for California’s public colleges and universities and provides the most accurate and up-to-date information about student transfer in California.

6. How we use ASSIST.org There are many ways to use ASSIST. You can explore campus agreements, majors, course articulation, and much more. When developing new transferable UC and CSU courses, the most important thing to be able to use ASSIST for is the course search feature to determine comparable courses on university campuses.

7. Finding a Parallel Course with ASSIST ASSIST Maintenance Reports can be run to research where courses are taught--whether at a 4yr. or a CCC. You can also search for Lower Division parallel courses. To run a maintenance report go to: http://info.assist.org/ use the pull down menu under Database--go to: http://info.assist.org/ ASSIST Maintenance Reports--click on the link ("Click here to go to the ASSIST Maintenance Reports") and sign in using the username: SRCFAC and the password: BurntOrange. (Yes, really. ) Now go to Course Search and using the pull down menus ("ALL INSTITUTIONS") and your Course Title (or components of your course title) run a report (NOTE: you do NOT need to fill in all the fields). The report will show where a course is taught and other essential info for the lower division parallel.

8. Reviewing Course Articulation with ASSIST The process for researching how and where your current courses articulation (often required during the instructional planning process) is very similar to that described above: ASSIST Maintenance Reports can be run to research where your courses are articulated at the CSU and UC. To run a maintenance report go to: info.assist.org use the pull down menu under Database--go to: info.assist.org ASSIST Maintenance Reports--click on the link "Click here to go to the ASSIST Maintenance Reports" and Log On using the username SRCFAC and the password BurntOrange From the list on the left in blue, choose Course Articulation Summary Select an Institution “Santa Rosa Junior College" Select a term - Current, e.g. "F14" Select a prefix - i.e. your course (you have to run a report for each course separately) Selct one or more institutions or - "All Institutions" (recommended - this will include CSU, UC's and CCC's) then click the big BLUE BUTTON It will take about 30 seconds (or longer) to generate the report and you can easily scan to see how and where your course is articulated. Then hit the back button on your browser to revise the settings for the next report (i.e. choose the next course).

9. What is C-ID and how do we use it at SRJC? The Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID). C-ID is a numbering system being developed to ease the transfer and articulation burdens in California’s higher educational institutions. To learn more about C-ID, please visit www.c-id.netwww.c-id.net Currently, C-ID has 280 approved descriptors and 21 draft descriptors from over 31 different disciplines. Currently the SRJC has 183 approved courses and another 52 that are in progress of review or have been submitted. What does this mean for us? C-ID descriptors are being utilized to complete the Associate Degree for Transfer TMC Templates as well as bridging pathways for students. The TMC Templates require our campus to have courses approved in order to meet the criteria and be usable within those templates.

10. More on C-ID To access the SRJC courses that have been approved as comparable to C-ID descriptors, use the COURSES tab orhttp://www.c- id.net/course_compare.html. You can search for courses by discipline on our campus. You can also search other CSU campuses for comparable courses.http://www.c- id.net/course_compare.html When developing new courses or revising courses, please see a list of finalized C-ID Descriptors by viewing http://www.c-id.net/descriptors.html and searching by discipline. The Descriptors are built in a fairly similar set up as our COR’s and by using them as a guide assists us in achieving C-ID approval and opens more pathways of utilization for that course.http://www.c-id.net/descriptors.html

11. More on C-ID Using C-ID as a tool for equivalency determination can be helpful when a student is requesting substitution of a course they may have taken at another CCC. While I still encourage faculty to review other CCC’s official course outlines and/or syllabi when determining a student’s course substitution, if our course and the course being requested for substitution have been approved for the same C-ID Descriptor it can give you confidence that the courses are likely aligned and cover the same content. Under the “Courses” Tab you can use the drop down menus to search for all courses approved for specific C-ID Numbers or search by campus. Example: A student submits Cabrillo College’s ACCT 1A for our BAD 1- We know that our BAD 1 is approved for C-ID ACCT 110. We can then utilize the drop down search to confirm that Cabrillo’s course is also approved for ACCT 110. There are also some CSU courses that have been identified with C-ID Numbers that can also be helpful when attempting to align new or revised courses and confirm lower division status.

12. So, What Else?

13. General Education General Education- GE Review and how to achieve GE approval Discuss coursework development or revisions with Articulation Office Review GE Reviewers Handbook for Guidelines Submission timelines- GE submissions are annual beginning December 1 st with determination results in Spring.

14. Proposing Articulation Articulation Proposals- What steps do you need to take? Departmental review of current articulation and determination of needs Faculty review of coursework to 4-year coursework; revising courses as necessary Work with Articulation Office to prepare required proposal Note that each campus has set of requirements and timelines