Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Transfer information is readily available for students at all three Hartnell College sites (Main
Campus, King City Educational Center, and Alisal Campus) including lower-division
transfer general education information sheets for California State University general
education (CSU-GE), and Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC).
Counselors are also available to answer transfer questions morning, afternoon, and evening at
all three Hartnell College sites.
TRANSFER CREDIT AND CURRICULA
The college Catalog includes Hartnell‘s policies on credit from other colleges, advanced
placement examinations, College Level Examination Program, International Baccalaureate,
and military service credit. Hartnell policies allow students to be given up to 30 units of
credit on the basis of scores on Advanced Placement (AP), College-Level Examination
Program (CLEP), Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES), or
International Baccalaureate (IB) tests. Scores and conditions necessary to grant such credit
are presented in the Catalog. Individual disciplines may choose to grant credit by
examination(s) designed and approved by subject discipline faculty. (II.A.78)
Hartnell College has transfer agreements with 23 California State University campuses
through the Certificate of General Education Breadth Requirements (CSU-GEB) agreement,
which identifies courses that are articulated for CSU lower-division general education. In
addition, Hartnell College has lower-division transfer agreements with 23 California State
University and 10 University of California campuses through the Intersegmental General
Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC). The IGETC and CSU-GEB courses included in
these agreements are listed in the college Catalog. (II.A.79) Hartnell College has Transfer
Admission Guarantee (TAG) agreements with seven University of California campuses
including Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. In
addition, Hartnell College has a Transfer Admission Agreement (TAA) with California State
University, Monterey Bay.
It is the college‘s policy to grant credit for most courses taken at regionally accredited
institutions of higher education. Counselors and Admission & Records evaluators, in
consultation with the appropriate division dean or faculty, review courses when there are
questions regarding equivalency of courses from other institutions. In addition, the
Admissions & Records Office electronically maintains a transfer equivalency record so that
counselors and evaluators can immediately access the evaluation decisions.
Transfer course decisions are also made when new courses are developed by faculty. In
collaboration with the faculty member, the Curriculum Committee, and area Deans, the
Articulation Officer works on proposals for course revisions or new courses to facilitate
articulation. The college determines transferability to the California State University (CSU)
system using CSU Office of the Chancellor guidelines (Executive Order 167) developed for a
Baccalaureate level course. California Community College courses that are transferable to all
campuses of the University of California (UC) are identified on the University of California
Transferable Course Agreement (TCA). In the University of California System, the Office of
the President initiates this agreement by extending an annual invitation for Community
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