TESC Is No Longer Accepting Community College Credits As Upper Level?? (Need advice)

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[quote=LaterBloomer]If you search, "transfer credits" on the tesc.edu website, you will find the following:
[QUOTE]Awarding Credit for College Courses Taught
Thomas Edison State College recognizes that teaching a course at the college or university level requires the mastery of the material being taught. Therefore, if the courses have been taught at the university or college level within five years of the student’s enrollment in the College, a credit award up to the equivalent of the same or similar course offered by Thomas Edison State College will be made./QUOTE]

You should appeal the decision. It states that you will get credit up to the equivalent of the same course from TESC. While I didn't read the whole page, they don't make a distinction regarding whether the course taught at a 2-year college (LL credit), or a 4-year college (possibly UL credit) would determine how TESC would award credit. To say that you will get LL credit for a class of the same description as one offered UL by TESC is arbitrary when it isn't stated in the catalog. Until they write that in their prospectus, catalog, or elsewhere it doesn't really make much sense. If the content matches then it should be matched to UL credit. For many courses that isn't the case but for others UL is the logical match.

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That policy is for people who have taught in a college so it doesn't apply to transfer credit. That sounds like a great deal for instructors though! This sounds a lot like TESC changing to the requirement of an AAS capstone. In that case the same thing happened where a change was made without any notice and done outside of the normal July 1st date which Sanantone mentioned is part of the normal catalog year change. For existing students I'd recommend you appeal but new ones should know that once TESC changes something like this it isn't going to be easy to get around. I'm wondering if there was a reason for the change or if they are hoping students take more courses at TESC.