Systemwide Transfer Appeals Committee

The following information is directly from the 2011-2012 College Catalog pg. 50. To download a full pdf version of the catalog, click here.

Systemwide Transfer Appeals Committee

Purpose
The purpose of the Transfer Appeals Committee is to:

Provide a review means for a student, transferring from one community college to another within the Connecticut system of community colleges, who believes the receiving college has not allowed adequate credit for a course or courses
Provide an established procedure which shall ensure the fulfillment of Board of Regents policy regarding transfer of credit

Membership
The Transfer Appeals Committee will consist of a chairperson (the Academic Officer of the Community College system) and two members (deans selected from a pool of academic deans and deans of students).

Neither dean serving for a particular review shall be from either of the colleges involved in the appeal. The pool shall consist of four academic deans selected annually by the Council of Academic Deans and four deans of students selected annually by the Council of Deans of Students. No dean shall serve more than three consecutive years. After the initial selection of deans, the executive officer will hold a drawing to determine that initially four deans shall hold a two-year service period in order to assure accumulation of some experience by a portion of the available deans.

Procedure

1. When a community college student transferring from one of the twelve community colleges to another concludes, after exhausting other means of review, that he or she is not being allowed sufficient credit for a course or courses he or she wishes transferred, the student may use this procedure as a final review and decision.

2. Before invoking this procedure the student shall have:

a. appealed the decision of the evaluator of transfer credit at the receiving college to the appropriate dean at the college, and if dissatisfied with the decision then

b. made an appeal of the decision of the dean to the president of the receiving college.

3. If the student receives an unsatisfactory decision at the college level, he or she may then appeal the decision of the president to the Academic Officer for the Community Colleges who shall convene the Transfer Appeals Committee for purposes of considering the appeal.

4. The Transfer Appeals Committee shall make a recommendation to the executive officer who shall render a final decision.

5. When a tie vote occurs by the two deans, the chair of the Transfer Appeals Committee shall break the tie by casting a vote.

6. A report shall be made to the Academic Policies Committee of the Board in the case of such appeals reviewed and acted upon by the Transfer Appeals Committee and the executive officer.