Arguing Eval

[k-k-k-katy]

Haven't been on here for a while - I argued my eval for a couple of courses.  Had to send in the course outline from my college.

I believe one did get accepted, but by the time it did, I had already finished the equivalent course online.

On this note, does anyone know the general timeframe to hear back on an appeal? I submitted a couple for my latest eval.

I've just recently been appealing a number of courses.  The turn-around was reasonable, the longest wait was one week, the shortest was 5 days.  Thankfully, each of my appeals came through on my side, although I had to really disagree on one and send it back for another judgment.  Finally got the answer I was hoping for!  I took some advice I had read here to be persistent.  Good luck on yours.

[jsd]

Appreciate the insight, good luck at TESU!

[studyingfortests]

Upon the advice of my advisor, I appealed several courses. The advisor believe that the appeals would be successful and that all three courses would be added as psychology courses meeting the liberal studies requirements. (All three were primarily listed by the community college as Human Services courses, cross-listed as psychology courses.)

The advisor was correct; all three were accepted for psychology credit, and I believe one of them went through as upper level. (Though this turned out to be an error, I nonetheless graduated with it.)

All the appeals took less than a week.

[sarahmac]

Yup, if it's an UL course and hard to find alternative credit options for that course, then yeah, I would try to appeal...  However, if it's cheaper, easier, faster just to do another ACE/NCCRS course for credit, then I would spend the time getting it completed instead of "waiting" for the appeal.

Many of the courses we are having problems with are upper level environmental/geosci courses. TESU has managed to make almost none of them fit the AOS for environmental studies by assigning ridiculous equivalencies that have very little relation to the original course.

For example, one class he took was about the sociology of the environment (required in the AOS). They said that it was human geography, thus duplicated his existing human geography credit (the prerequisite for the sociology of the environment course...). In another case they took a 400 level politics of water resources and the aquatic environment (a politics-environment course is needed in the AOS), downgraded the level, and said it was "limnology" (water science) and so doesn't fit in the AOS at all.

My own evaluation at TESU I would add could not have been smoother. They have done this with so many of his courses and I am sat here like

[dfrecore]

Yup, if it's an UL course and hard to find alternative credit options for that course, then yeah, I would try to appeal...  However, if it's cheaper, easier, faster just to do another ACE/NCCRS course for credit, then I would spend the time getting it completed instead of "waiting" for the appeal.

Many of the courses we are having problems with are upper level environmental/geosci courses. TESU has managed to make almost none of them fit the AOS for environmental studies by assigning ridiculous equivalencies that have very little relation to the original course.

For example, one class he took was about the sociology of the environment (required in the AOS). They said that it was human geography, thus duplicated his existing human geography credit (the prerequisite for the sociology of the environment course...). In another case they took a 400 level politics of water resources and the aquatic environment (a politics-environment course is needed in the AOS), downgraded the level, and said it was "limnology" (water science) and so doesn't fit in the AOS at all.

My own evaluation at TESU I would add could not have been smoother. They have done this with so many of his courses and I am sat here like

I definitely think they'll have more trouble with odd courses that they don't usually deal with.  That being said, I would push back, sending the syllabus for each course, and ask for an appeal of the appeal. LOL.  I'd ask if the dean of the department can take a look.  Oh, and I'd send the catalog from the previous school to show how the courses fit into the degree he was going for.