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    This rule was filed as 5 NMAC 55.3. It applies to all public post-secondary institutions in the state of New Mexico. Provisions of Part 3 of Chapter 55 apply to all institutions.

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    5.55.3 NMAC. Page 1 of 6 This rule was filed as 5 NMAC 58.3. ‘TITLE 5 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION CHAPTER 55 PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERAL PROVISIONS PARTS ‘TRANSFER AND ARTICULATION $853.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico Commission on Higher Education, 1068 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, ‘New Mexico 87501, Telephone: 505/827-7383. [B/16/51, 7/1/94; Recompiled 10/31/01} 5553.2 SCOPE: Provisions of Part 3 of Chapter 55 [now 5.55.3 NMAC] apply to all post-secondary institutions ‘operating within and receiving financial support fiom the state of New Me [10/2/91, 11/1/96; Recompiled 10/31/01] 55533 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: The Post-Secondary Education Articulation Act (Section 21-1B-L et seq NMSA 1978) authorizes the New Mexico commission on higher education ("commission") to establish and maintain a comprehensive statewide plan to facilitate the articulation of educational programs and the transfer of students among put post-secondary institutions within the state, In consultation with the institutions, the commission isto define, publish, and ‘maintain various modules of transferrable courses; monitor the progress of atticultion and transfer; establish procedure for receiving and investigating student complaints about transfer decisions made by institutions; and make reports and recommendations tothe legislature and the governor about program articulation and student transfer (10/2/91, 11/1/96; Recompiled 10/31/01] 55534 DURATION: Pecmanent, [11/196; Recompiled 10/31/01] 555.35 ERRECTIVE DATE: November 1, 1996 [unless 4 later date is cited atthe end of a section]. [11/1096; Recompiled 10/3 1/01] 5553.6 OBJECTIVE: General Principles: A. The objective of Part 3 of Chapter 55 [now 5.55.3 NMAC] is to promote continuous collaboration among post-secondary institutions and the commission that will enhance the quality of post-secondary education, statewide, and will result in appropriate articulation of educational programs offered by the institutions and unimpeded transfer of students among the institutions B, General principles to guide articulation and transfer: (@) Tho following principles undergird the more specific provisions of Part 3, Chapter 55 [now 5.55.3 NMAC, and are intended to guide future actions ofthe commission and the institutions within the overall objective of improving quality, articulation, and transfer, (@) When making decisions affecting transfer students, receiving institutions should assure that transfer students are treated equally to those students originating their post-secondary studies atthe institutions (native students). G) When evaluating post-secondary creit fr transfer, reeciving institutions should adopt a statewide perspective in their acceptance of the courses through which the credit was earned. All courses comparable in nature and. ‘resulting in comparable student skills should be accepted in transfer and applied to relevant degree requirements as equivalent means of demonstrating that a student has met a receiving institution's degree requirements, whether or not the receiving institution offers a particular course. Abseace ofa couse in an institution's curriculum is not, in itself, sufficient reagon for denying transfer of that course or its application to degree requirements, (4) _ Institutions are encouraged to continue to develop and use individually negotiated transfer agreements with other institutions as aids to program articulation and student transfer, particularly fr those students who have fixed objectives regarding their major program of study and/or their inter-institutional rout. (6) Particular care should be taken to assure that decisions about student transfer are consistent with the states concem for increasing the representation and success of ethnic minority students, low-income students, and any other historically underrepresented clusters of students in upper-division baccalaureate degree programs. (©) Post-secondary education in New Mexieo should be viewed in an ineresingly systemic mannes, considering institutions as components of a statewide network for higher education rather than as independent, unrelated providers of educational services. All relevant aspects of institution programming aad operation and all relevant state-level decisions and actions should be reviewed regarding theit impact upon program articulation and student transfer. (7) Each public post-secondary institution in New Mexico should adopt and observe a grievance or complaint process to address intr-institutional and inter-insttutional disputes arising from articulation decisions, Students should, in appropriate manners, be informed of the availabilty ofthese processes and shall be assisted in resolving articulation disputes at the institutional level prior to submitting 2 complaint tothe commission. [11/1296; Reeompited 10/31/01] ‘http://veww.nmepr.state.nm.us/nmae/parts/title0S/03.055.0003.htm 3/5/2011 5.55.3 NMAC Page 2 of 6 8553.7 DEFINITIONS: ‘A. "Articulation" means the transfer of course credit from one institution to another (Section 21-1B-2A NMSA 1978). Generally, articulation refers tothe interrclationships between parts and of the parts fo a whole. As applicd to higher education, articulation refers to systematic programs, processes, or services intended to mesh courses and programs of study both within and betwen institutions in order to heighten the quality of education, ensure educational continuity, and facilitate orderly, unobstructed progress of students between institutions and to completion of degree programs. Articulation has *horizontal” aspects - dealing with courses and programs ata given level of learning, for example, the comparability of lower-division coursework from one institution to another ~ ancl "vertical" aspects, dealing with courses and programs at different levels, for example, the ft of lower-civision coursework at two-year institutions to upper-division work at universities. Articulation programs, processes, or services involve but arc not limited to the disribution of information about transferrable courses to potential or current students; provision of assistance to transfer students during recruitment, ‘admission, and advisement activities; distribution of financial aid to transfer students; and analysis of an institution's performance in evaluating credits for transfer and for application to program requirements. B. "Institution" means a publie post-secondary institution operating inthe state (Section 21-1B-20), acoredited by the north central association of colleges and schools, commission on insttations of higher education, and receiving financial support from the state of New Mexico. Private post-secondary institutions not receiving financial support from tho slate of New Mexico are encouraged to participate in the articulation and transfer provisions of Part 3 [now 5.55.3 NMAC] but are not required to do so, nor are they subject to monitoring or oversight by the commiss C, "Module" or *traasfer mexlule” means a standardized lst of courses or skills established by the commission for which credit is secepted for transfer from one insttntion to another (Section 21-1B-2D) and applied toward requirements for graduation and receipt of a degree, The Post-Secondary Education Articulation Act requires that modi developed "in specific disciplines of study such es business, engineering, technology, education, health and arts and sciences" tnd that these transfer modules be composed of 64 semester hours of lower-division credit, inchiding a 35-semester-hour common core of general education. [11/1096; Recompited 10/31/01] 55538 CONSULTATION WITH INSTITUTIONS A The commission will maintain regular, systematic consultation with public institutions during the development, maintenance, monitoring, and evaluation of all component activities and products related to implementation of Part 3, Chapter 55 {now 5.55.3 NMAC], including the lower-division general education common coro, transfer modules, the student complaint system, procedutes for monitoring institutions, reports and the comportent policies and practices iaherent to this part. B. In particular, the commission and its staff will regularly consult with its task force on articulation and ‘transfer, comprised of academic officers representing the states two-year and four-year institutions. The task force will serve 1s primary advisor to the commission regarding the content and appropriateness of all modules and modifications of modules, presented to the commission. As appropriate, the commission also will consult with faculty and with other institution representatives eed Pior to submission of reports to the lexistature and govemor, the commission will provide the chet operating officers and academic officers of the institutious opportunity to comment upon draft versions of the reports. [11/1/96; Recompiled 10/31/01} 5553.9 LOWER-DIVISION GENERAL EDUCATION COMMON CORE: A. The commission is authorized to dofine, publish, and maintain a common core of lower-

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