Proposal 1
Each department has the sole responsibility of determining
if a specific course offered at another institution can be
accepted for the purposes of transfer of credit as being
equivalent to a course offered by said department. Neither
an adviser, administrator nor other individual in a College
office is entitled to determine the equivalence of courses
for the purpose of transfer. Each department is responsible
for maintaining, reviewing and revising the information
contained in WSU Transfer Guides
(see, for example,http://secure.wichita.edu/registrar/transguides.asp)
to ensure that these are accurate, appropriate and current;
each department is also solely responsible for determining
course transfer equivalence for individual courses which
are not listed in the Transfer Guides.
Each department at Wichita State University shall review every
three years each course offered by another institution and listed
as being equivalent to a course offered by said department in a
WSU Transfer Guide. Each year a subset of the external courses
listed in a WSU Transfer Guide shall be reviewed by the appropriate departments;
ideally this subset should consist of approximately one
third of these external courses. In consultation with the Faculty
Senate Academic Affairs Committee, the Offices of Academic Affairs
and the Registrar shall devise and implement a procedure to
assist departments in conducting these reviews; in particular,
this procedure shall include the timely notification of departments
of upcoming reviews, a process for obtaining course, instructor
or other information required by a department to conduct its review and
assistance with other issues related to these reviews.