10/20/2009
The Transfer Coordinator's meeting is Tuesday, November 10th at Illinois State University's Alumni Center in Normal, IL. Check the meetings page for more information, directions, and agenda...Meetings Page
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A big spring/summer project for your u.select and iTransfer staff was putting together a custom publication for students transferring in the state of Illinois. We have sent a couple of copies to the transfer offices of all our participating schools and the guidance counselors of the public high schools. If you need to order more, you may do so from the website at: http://www.itransfer.org/reorder/. If you would like to download the pdf, it is also available on the site: Your Guide to College Transfer.
I will be working at posting the many updates that were sent over the summer months to the iTransfer email. Due to some email difficulties and the redesign of the Advocate pages, I have been sadly remiss in posting the updates. I will work over the next month or so to get these posted for you. Our home page and news page should fill up with the many things TC's and IAI contact have sent. Please keep those updates coming!
1/06/2009
A biannual bulletin which will include important updates and information regarding the Illinois Articulation Initiative has been released for January 2009. This bulletin will be available in pdf format and will be sent to the Transfer Coordinator's listserv and the IAI Updates listserv. The next edition will be released in early July.
The IAI Bulletin for January 2009 pdf
To subscribe to the Transfer Coordinator's listserv, click here for instructions.
To subscribe to the IAI Updates listserv, click here for instructions.
12/11/2008
Please review the IAI Calendar for accuracy of spring transfer related activities. If you have updates or changes please email me at: itransfer@itransfer.org.
We now have a list of the titles used to Transfer Coordinator's throughout the state. It is available here in pdf format. pdf
The AAT presentation from the TC meeting in November 2008, is available via pdf. pdf
11/03/2008
SIUC's updates are provided in a pdf document for your review. PDF
08/29/2008
Hello all!
This is a message to announce the Community College Conference that will be held at SIUE on Thursday, October 9, 2008 from 9 am - 2:30 pm. We are planning another informative program and are encouraging those from the community colleges who have never visited SIUE or haven't seen us in a while to plan to attend. More detailed information about the conference will be made available in early fall. For questions about this conference, call me (618) 650-2505, or send email using the information provided with this message. Thank you and have a great summer! --
Terri Montgomery - tmontgo@siue.edu
05/30/2008
Transfer Coordinators:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also making some changes. We've been ironing out the details of our events as we plan our move to fall rather than February, and have changed from the September dates we previously announced.
*Advisors/counselors are invited to Urbana-Champaign for Articulation Day on Friday, October 17, 2008.
*Prospective transfer students, families, and others with interest in Illinois are invited to Transfer Open House on Saturday, October 18, 2008.
Best regards,
Dan
Daniel Cullen, Ph.D. Transfer Experience and Advising Mentors (TEAM) Project Assistant Director, Undergraduate Admissions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217.333.4074 Fax: 217.244.4614 dcullen@illinois.edu
NEWS OF DATE CHANGE: We were informed that the original date for our community college articulation conference, 10/3, conflicted with the annual NACADA conference (thanks!! Tina) We have changed the Macomb conference to Friday, 9/26. We hope many of you will be able to join us after attending the ISU conference on Thursday, 9/25. Casey Connors, the assistant director of admissions, will be planning this year's conference. If you have any questions about the Macomb conference, please feel free to contact him at JC-Connors@wiu.edu. Curtis Williams, assistant director of student services and admissions, will be planning the conference at WIU-Quad Cities. If you have any questions regarding the QC conference, please feel free to contact him at CM-Williams11@wiu.edu. The date for WIU-QC articulation meeting will also be 9/26 at 10am. Next year we will return to hosting the QC meeting the day before the Macomb meeting. Sorry for any inconvenience and you are welcome to attend either program.
Thanks. Joan
05/08/2008
You can view decisions for the IAI GECC Communications and Humanities and Fine Arts panels in WebReview. The courses are now in the archive so the best means to view them are by school. The approved courses have also been integrated into the database (this link takes a moment to load so please be patient with it) so you should also see them listed there. As a reminder, you can get the database updates at the beginning of each month for the previous month on this page in the iTransfer.org website.
If need assistance or direction using the WebReview system, please feel free to contact Krista at iTransfer.org by calling 309-438-8640 or emailing at itransfer@itransfer.org However, you may also try the following information on courses submitted to panels and the decision process.
Here's how it works: courses in the WebReview are archived about a week after the scheduled panel meetings. Once in archive, decisions on the courses will be entered to allow you see whether the course was "approved?,""not approved," or "not enough information."If the course was "approved," you probably will not find any additional comments/notes on the course posted with the decision. If a course was "not approved,"the panel may provide an explanation of why it was not approved and direction for the resubmission of course which often includes a suggestion of what you can do to help it be approved with the next submission. If a course is marked as "not enough information,"this means if the stipulations listed are met, the panel will approve the course. Stipulations for this type of decision can be submitted to the panel contact person at IBHE or ICCB and will be forwarded to the panel co-chairs for review and approval or they may request further information if the stipulations are not met with the additional information.
04/30/2008
We are pleased to announce that CAS and iTransfer will be giving a presentation at Oakton Community College on Wednesday, June 11th. This presentation is being provided by NSERVE and will provide valuable information including the how-to's of the CAS and iTransfer web sites. Below is the NSERVE brochure for more information. If you are interested in attending, please call or fax your rsvp to NSERVE. Breakfast will be provided!
Please feel free to share this information with any of your constituents that may be interested in attending. We are hoping for a large audience, so please join us for this helpful and informative presentation.
Details of the presentation and location: Wednesday, June 11th From 10:00 am 12:30 pm ? breakfast provided Presenters: Jess Ray and Krista Jackson, Illinois Articulation Initiative And Lisa Marinelli, CAS Oakton Community College Room 1610 FREE Fax: 8476963254
iTransfer & The Illinois Course Applicability System (CAS) In this informative new seminar, educators will discover which courses transfer credits from a community college (or dual credit course) to a state university or from one four year university to another. Types of transfer and new student resources, including iGET, which helps students chart their progress within the General Education Core Curriculum, will also be presented. Participants will learn about the use of the Course Applicability System (CAS), which allows students to check on the articulation of their coursework between Illinois schools and also helps them find answers in planning for transfer. (2 CPDU's)
NSERVE presentation information (pdf)
Directions to Oakton (link to the directions page at Oakton Community College)
Below are the documents that show the results of the survey of tracking practices utilized by Community College that was undertaken by De Paul and discussed at the Spring Transfer Coordinator's meeting. They are in pdf form.
De Paul's CC survey IAI notation 4-2008 (pdf)
De Paul's IAI community college confirmation practices (pdf)
04/23/2008
UIUC's updates from the Transfer Coordinator are in the below pdf. These are related to calculus coursework at UIUC.
UIUC updates (pdf)
04/15/2008
Western's updates from the Transfer Coordinator are in the below pdf.
Western updates (pdf)
UIC's updates from the Transfer Coordinator are in the below pdf.
UIC updates (pdf)
The Agenda and Welcome letter for the upcoming meeting on April 16th are available via pdf and word on the Meetings page of the Advocate.
03/10/2008
The preliminary minutes are available via pdf on the Meetings page of the Advocate.
03/05/2008 Now available via pdf files are a transfer coordinator's list and an IAI contact list for participating schools. If you notice out of date information, please email updates to itransfer@itransfer.org
Transfer Coordinator's Directory (Adobe pdf)
IAI Contact's Directory (Adobe pdf)
The files are small to see so you'll need to use the zoom or print the file.
3/04/2008 - Transfer Coordinators: Please tell your advisors that University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has kept transfer applications for Fall 2008 open for all programs that had been accepting applications with the exception of the College of Business. If you have students who are interested in applying to other UIUC colleges, they still have time! Programs may close at any time without advance notice now that we are beyond the original deadline (March 1), but as of now most programs are open for transfer applications. More on deadlines: www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/apply/dates_transfer.html To access the transfer application: www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/apply/app_transfer.shtml Contact me or Admissions (www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/contacts.html) with any questions. Best regards, Dan-- Daniel Cullen Transfer Experience and Advising Mentors (TEAM) Project Assistant Director, Office of Admissions and Records University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Phone: 217.333.4074 Fax: 217.244.4614 dcullen@uiuc.edu
3/4/2008 - If you have submitted a course for approval to a GECC Panel, you can find information regarding voting status and comments on WebReview. To access WebReview, a link can be found via navigation within the iTransfer site. When navigating to WebReview within iTransfer, follow these steps: 1) from the main page select IAI from the links at the top, 2) choose the Faculty/Advisor link on the left hand side, 3) choose the Web Review link located in the the Panel Management section on the top right side of the Faculty/Advisor page. It is also available at: /IAI/WebReview/.
To access the WebReview site, you will need to utilize your email address and a password. If you have not yet registered for the site, you may do so from the login page. If you have registered, but have forgotten your password, please email and request your password be sent via itransfer@itransfer.org Once you have logged in, you will find each of the panels listed. By clicking the panel you want (highlighted in bright blue and underlined ), you will be able to see the courses that the panel is in the process of reviewing. Here the system tells how long course can be voted upon and a brief summary of the current coding for the course. By clicking the specific course (again highlighted in bright blue and underlined ), you can see details of the panel's online discussion and voting. Most courses will be archived a week after the panel meeting and the end of voting.
You can view archived courses by looking to the bottom of all the active courses within the panel detail page where the courses are summarized. The section of the page should look something like this:
There are 39 archived courses in the database for this panel. There are 0 future courses in the database for this panel.
View archived course list by: IAI prefix/suffix, school, or date added.
I hope this information is helpful as the review process begins for this term. Please call (309-438-8640) or email (itransfer@itransfer.org) with questions!
2/22/2008 It will be held in the Public Affairs Center, Conference room C and D at UIS. You can check the meetings page for additional meeting information, including agenda information, map to UIS, and the welcome letter.
1/30/2008 I am working at brightening up the colors for the Advocate. Let me know if you have trouble viewing pages or have any suggestions. Thanks for checking in! Email me your comments or suggestions: itransfer@itransfer.org
1/23/2008 Soon iTransfer will have a worksheet available on the IL CAS website. For a sneak peek at what it look like, check this link: http://www.itransfer.org/iGetLayout.htm!
1/18/2008 On Thursday, March 6, 2008 there is an OPEN HOUSE at:
NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Starts at 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Located in the Student Union - 5500 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
For more information please contact:
Patricia Johnson Admissions Counseling & Recruitment ph 773/ 442-4011
1/18/2008 We have added events in the IAI Calendar. Activities that are not IAI specific but more transfer related activities are identified as "Transfer Related Activities." We will be making some changes to our calendaring in upcoming months, so watch for changes. If you would like to add an event to the Advocate or IAI calendar, our email is itransfer@itransfer.org
12/07/2007 We are working at tracking down information for IAI contacts at IL colleges and universities as well. If you are the IAI Contact for your school (or know who the contact is), please email iTransfer to verify that we have your information. Our email is itransfer@itransfer.org Thanks.
12/06/2007 Thanks to all for the recent suggestions. Keep them coming! If you have things you'd like to see on iTransfer or the Advocate, contact the iTransfer office by email at itransfer@itransfer.org
12/06/2007 We are working at tracking down information for new Transfer Coordinators. If you are a new Transfer Coordinator and would like to verify that we have your information in the Transfer Coordinator's Directory, please email us at itransfer.org Thanks.
12/06/07 Transfer Coordinators: Please register for the IAI Web Review, if you haven't already. You can logon and view the results of voting for the courses that have been submitted. You can register at: https://www.itransfer.org/IAI/WebReview/
12/06/2007 We updated the calendar for some of the conferences, seminars, and Transfer Coordinator's meeting. Review the calendar for upcoming activities. If there is something you would like to submit, pease email us at iTransfer.
12/06/2007 The new iTransfer poster is available. This is a large file and may take time to download. If you want more large posters, email us at itransfer. Click here to download. (PDF File)
12/06/2007 The new Form 13 is available. This new version can be saved. Click here to download. (PDF File)
11/27/2007 Just a quick note. Someone may have left an umbrella at the TC meeting and as the last out of the auditorium the UIUC contingent has it [me]. Can you post a note on the Advocate asking if anyone sitting on the left side of the auditorium managed to accidentally leave a compact umbrella under their seat. Please offer my contact information and I'll see that the left item is returned to its rightful owner. Thanks for the help! Clark Niepert Course Articulation Coordinator Office of Admission and Records University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 901 West Illinois St. Urbana, IL 61801-3028 Office: 217-333-1891 Fax: 217-333-3305 cniepert@uiuc.edu
11/12/2007 There are several vacancies on the IAI Panels for Transfer Coordinators. If you are interested in filling one of these vacancies, contact Barb Risse or Rick Pearce. Download a list of the Panel Vacancies here. (PDF File)
Dear Colleagues, Welcome back to the new school year! Here are a few updates on the Transfer Policies at Columbia College Chicago. Click here to get the list of updates. (PDF File)
Transfer Coordinators: The IAI Manufacturing/Machining Major Advisory Committee has changed its recommendation to Industrial Technology. With the lack of jobs in the manufacturing sector and the fact that high school career and technical education in the area of manufacturing has diminished, the committee thought it was time to broaden their recommendation for students. You are invited to examine the proposed changes on the dev site in iTransfer and comment. Please submit comments to me by September 10. Click here to view the changes. Next steps include sending it to IAI participating institutions, reviewing comments to determine if any changes need to be made, making those changes, and posting the final recommendation on iTransfer. The committee has not yet decided if courses that were formerly approved for the IAI MTM codes will have to be re-submitted, or not. Please contact me if you need additional information, or wish to share your perspective. Thank you. Barbara Risse Staff to the Committee
An updated Transfer Coordinator Directory is available for Download in WORD and PDF format. The Directory includes contacts for all 2-Year and 4-Year, both Public and Private schools.
Thanks to Rita Pearson and her student worker at EIU for compiling this information!
Below is a copy of a letter presented to the IBHE Leadership group and is being sent to Chief Academic Officers this week regarding the completion of GECC post-matriculation as well as the Institutional Review Process for IAI courses.
Incomplete GECC/Review Process Letter
Eastern Illinois University will now accept students who have earned 24 semester hours with a 2.5/4.0 scale cumulative GPA overall and a 2.0 from the last institution attended or have earned 30 semester hours with a 2.0/4.0 scale cumulative GPA overall and a 2.0 from the last institution. This additional option is effective for the Fall 2007. Students with less than the 24 hours with the 2.5 or 30 hours with the 2.0 must have a 2.0 cumulative GPA overall and from the last institution attended and meet one of the following requirements: ACT 18 AND High School GPA of 3.0 or class rank in the upper forth; or ACT 19 AND High School GPA of 2.5 or class rank in the upper half; or ACT 22 AND High School GPA of 2.25 or class rank in the upper three fourths. Also, please remind your transfer students that no personal statement or essay is required. The essay section is an option, and is only utilized for a transfer student who does not meet the above criteria and is requesting special consideration.
Rita Pearson's Cute Kid Update.
The ICCB and IBHE staff are moving forward in implementing recommended revisions to the IAI process. In doing so, we have become aware of concerns from participating institutions related to the use of the IAI Major codes. As we explore this important issue, the IAI codes will continue to be in effect. The database that holds the codes has been archived by the iTransfer.org staff and is available at /IAI/FACT/PanelRelatedDocs.taf. If you have Microsoft Office, you should be able to access the site. If you cannot, notify www .itransfer.org@itransfer.org Website staff will be able to help you. Until these concerns have been addressed, you are being asked to continue to use the IAI Major Codes as you have in the past. However, at this time, the moratorium on Major Course syllabi review and approval will remain in effect. We appreciate your assistance as we move forward with Phase 4 of the Initiative. With your help, we are confident the results will continue the great work of the Initiative and will improve our collective ability to help Illinois students transfer. Sincerely, Rick Pearce Barbara Risse
You can download a copy of the Original Charge to the Major Panels and a clarification of the difference between the General Education and Major Panels here.
There is now a Transfer Coordinators' Listserv available for discussion of issues and announcements of events. You can subscribe to it by following the instructions on this page. HOME >> ARTICULATION ADVOCATE >> NEWS
