Anyone have experience on reevaluating business courses from Faculty members?

[twy2024]

Hi there,

I completed two business courses at community college that should be able to transfer as the BUS 220 and BUS 242, but instead it was transferred as business elective. I reached out to Jessica back on Nov 29, 2022, she forwarded my email to the transfer department, but since then have had no response.

Has anyone successfully reevaluated their previous credits? I appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

[turbotortuga]

Actually, I just received my transfer evaluation and it was the exact same deal as yourself. Courses that should have transferred in as one thing came in as electives or something completely off. For instance, I took Calculus I and Calculus II (in person) at two different universities in Florida. Calc I came in as "Pre-Calculus" and Calc Ii came in as "Calculus I". I sent an email to Jessica who forwarded it just like in your case. 
     
The next day the Calc I was changed to "Calculus I", but the Calc II remained as Calculus I, which makes no sense. I'm not very impressed with whoever is evaluating the transfer courses at all aat this point.

[twy2024]

Actually, I just received my transfer evaluation and it was the exact same deal as yourself. Courses that should have transferred in as one thing came in as electives or something completely off. For instance, I took Calculus I and Calculus II (in person) at two different universities in Florida. Calc I came in as "Pre-Calculus" and Calc Ii came in as "Calculus I". I sent an email to Jessica who forwarded it just like in your case. 
     
     The next day the Calc I was changed to "Calculus I", but the Calc II remained as Calculus I, which makes no sense. I'm not very impressed with whoever is evaluating the transfer courses at all aat this point.

At least one of your courses was corrected. Hopefully they can at least fix BUS 220 for me, as the one I took at the community college is exactly the same course.

[ss20ts]

All Managerial Accounting courses aren't the same. That may be why it transferred as a Business Elective. I don't see BUS242 in any of the YourPace degrees so I'm not sure what that course is.

[twy2024]

All Managerial Accounting courses aren't the same. That may be why it transferred as a Business Elective. I don't see BUS242 in any of the YourPace degrees so I'm not sure what that course is.

Thanks. BUS 242 is Spreadsheet Applications.

[turbotortuga]

Hi there,

I completed two business courses at community college that should be able to transfer as the BUS 220 and BUS 242, but instead it was transferred as business elective. I reached out to Jessica back on Nov 29, 2022, she forwarded my email to the transfer department, but since then have had no response.

Has anyone successfully reevaluated their previous credits? I appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

Jessica got back to me and got me in touch directly with the UMPI transfer officer. I have been working with her for the past few weeks to get my course equivalencies corrected. If you have syllabi from your Community College Business courses that came in as electives, I'd compose a detailed email to Jessica as to why you believe they should be declared as UMPI equivalents to BUS 220 and BUS 242. Make sure you include comparisons to the Course Descriptions and course objectives and such. The Business faculty who are in charge of the equivalencies seem to be pretty set in their positions but I am hoping that they can be persuaded to actually look at the syllabi and decide in my favor. I feel like sometimes they just go off of the course nomenclature and call it good rather than actually look at what the course is actually teaching.

[joshua27]

My experience was exactly the opposite. I emailed Jessica on a SUNDAY to inquire about a transfer course and she responded, which surprised me. We discussed the transfer concern, and I also sent her the syllabus from Virginia Tech and she sent it off to the faculty for evaluation. It was approved and changed a couple of hours later, all on a Sunday.

[ss20ts]

My experience was exactly the opposite.  I emailed Jessica on a SUNDAY to inquire about a transfer course and she responded, which surprised me.  We discussed the transfer concern, and I also sent her the syllabus from Virginia Tech and she sent it off to the faculty for evaluation.  It was approved and changed a couple of hours later, all on a Sunday.

Some faculty are more responsive than others. Some are also more likely to approve a course than others. There's no set rules which can create confusion and difficulties or make it a breeze.

[turbotortuga]

I have an update. My BUS 220 Managerial Accounting equivalency request was approved by the business faculty. I wrote a detailed email to the person in charge of the equivalency for this course, which the transfer officer forwarded on my behalf. I cited the ACCT 2120 Accounting II course description, taken online at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), along with the course syllabus (which I also attached to the email). I then compared both to the UMPI BUS 220 course description in the UMPI academic catalog. At the end of the email I wrote a blurb about how CNM is unique because they have a CPA Post Completion Certificate of Completion program (that is approved by the New Mexico Board of Accountancy), so their Accounting Course sequence is not equivalent to other colleges and universities as their courses have different sequencing and objectives, so one must examine each course syllabus and evaluate it on its merits, rather than the course nomenclature.

So there is hope for you to get those courses re-evaluated, but you might have to do a bit of digging and compose a compelling argument to the faculty in charge of that equivalency. Good luck.

[twy2024]

I have an update. My BUS 220 Managerial Accounting equivalency request was approved by the business faculty. I wrote a detailed email to the person in charge of the equivalency for this course, which the transfer officer forwarded on my behalf. I cited the ACCT 2120 Accounting II course description, taken online at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), along with the course syllabus (which I also attached to the email). I then compared both to the UMPI BUS 220 course description in the UMPI academic catalog. At the end of the email I wrote a blurb about how CNM is unique because they have a CPA Post Completion Certificate of Completion program (that is approved by the New Mexico Board of Accountancy), so their Accounting Course sequence is not equivalent to other colleges and universities as their courses have different sequencing and objectives, so one must examine each course syllabus and evaluate it on its merits, rather than the course nomenclature.

So there is hope for you to get those courses re-evaluated, but you might have to do a bit of digging and compose a compelling argument to the faculty in charge of that equivalency. Good luck.

@turbotortuga That's great new! I will definitely give it a try. Thanks for sharing the tips!