Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Colleges to submit courses for review and possible inclusion on the Transfer Course
Agreement. It is the Articulation Officer‘s responsibility to electronically submit, via
ASSIST OSCAR (Articulation System Stimulating Inter-institutional Student Transfer,
Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review), all courses that have been
identified by the Curriculum Committee as being appropriate in depth and scope for possible
University of California transferability.
Currently, transfer curriculum is focused on the recent legislation, SB-1440 (Padilla, 2010),
now known as the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act (STAR). In response to STAR,
the Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID) infrastructure is being used to vet
Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC), the proposed community college majors or areas of
emphasis that consist of courses appropriate for an associate degree. TMCs provide a
foundational understanding of the discipline and prepare the student for transfer to any CSU.
C-ID is a supranumbering system being developed to ease the transfer and articulation
burdens on California‘s higher educational institutions. Each C-ID number identifies a lowerdivision,
transferable course commonly articulated between California Community Colleges
and the California State University, as well as with some of California's independent colleges
and universities. Using C-ID course descriptors developed intersegmentally, the Articulation
Officer submits appropriate course outlines for review. After California State University
evaluators approve the course, the college course attains a C-ID number for five years. This
is an ongoing process and new course descriptors are still under development. Currently, the
Articulation Officer has submitted 83 course outlines; thus far, 27 have been approved and
given C-ID designations, 8 have been conditionally approved for one year, and others are in
progress.
Associate Degrees for Transfer: Following the Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC) agreed
to by CSU and statewide community college discipline faculty, Hartnell College now offers
five approved Associate Degrees for Transfer: AS-T Mathematics, AA-T Communication
Studies, AS-T in Early Childhood Education, AA-T in English, and AA-T in Political
Science. Additional degrees for transfer are being developed in Administration of Justice,
Computer Science, Elementary Teacher Preparation, Kinesiology and Psychology, among
others.
To facilitate student and faculty understanding of articulation agreements and transfer, the
Counseling department hosts a College Day/Transfer Night each year for all Hartnell
students, local high school students and community members and representatives from CSU,
UC, and independent colleges. In addition, regular visits from recruiters and advisors of local
feeder university, California State University, Monterey Bay, assist our students preparing to
transfer.
Self Evaluation
The Curriculum Committee continues to encourage development of transfer courses to meet
both general education and major articulation. The Curriculum Committee also encourages
faculty to revise and update course outlines within five years to meet transfer standards. The
Counseling Department engages in ongoing training and professional development related to
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