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Keuka enrolls international students in the traditional, on-campus programs in both undergraduate
and graduate degree programs. In addition to the requirements listed above for
traditional admissions or graduate admissions, international students are required to submit an
official transcript from an official credential evaluation agency. Transfer credits earned at
foreign institutions are evaluated and accepted on an individual basis (Keuka College Record
2012-2013). For international students entering the traditional program at Keuka College as
first-year students, a high school transcript (or equivalent) is required. For international exchange
students, who come to Keuka after studying for a period of time at one of our partner
universities, transcripts from the partner school are required. Each partner school in China
originally had a different format for transcripts; however, the Dean of the China Program worked
with all the schools to create a common format in 2010. Transcripts are received in June or July
by the Center for Global Education and are reviewed by the Registrar. Transcript evaluation is
completed before transfer students arrive on campus, and faculty advisors work with students to
enroll them in their campus coursework.
Students in Keuka’s overseas programs, both China and Vietnam, complete an undergraduate
business management program of 120 credit hours, with 90 credits provided by their home
institution and transferred to Keuka, and the remaining 30 credits provided by Keuka. Students
in these overseas programs take the same courses, both general education and business courses;
the Registrar conducts a transfer credit evaluation of all courses taken at the home institution,
making sure that students have passed the required courses and ensuring that they have
completed all degree requirements (Interview with Linda Fleischman, Registrar, May 4, 2011).
Documents listing transcript review policies and transfer credit are updated each year. The
Registrar works closely with Admissions and Division Chairs to address courses that are not
included in accreditation agreements or for which there is not an obvious match so as to make
appropriate decisions, whether to deny credit or to award credit for equivalent courses. In
addition, the College is in the process of setting up a committee to review the articulation
agreements set up with each school to make sure the correct courses are still matched and to
ensure that new courses are being accounted for.
General Education
A Keuka College education is based on the liberal arts as delivered primarily through our general
education (Gen Ed) program. As noted in Chapter 4, “the general education program is the
common educational experience of all traditional Keuka College students [and equivalent
transfer classes for ASAP and overseas programs], providing them with breadth of knowledge,
intellectual skills, and personal dispositions of an educated person.” The General Education
requirements are based on a set of student learning goals which are organized in three categories:
Foundational Skills, Breadth of Knowledge, and Dispositions (Appendix 4.22 General Education
Learning Goals). Each Gen Ed course addresses one or more of these student learning goals.
A substantial revamping of the General Education curriculum is at the forefront of the ongoing
Long Range Strategic Planning initiatives, namely to create “a nationally recognized and
distinctive General Education Program” (“Long Range Strategic Plan version 1.7 December
2012”). At its December 2012 Faculty Meeting, the faculty approved the formation of a working
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