The Student Mobility
Challenge
Christine Arnold Ph.D. Candidate
University of Toronto/OISE
Transforming a Loosely Coupled System
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Vision 2000
2
Pitman Report: Task Force on Advanced Training
3
College-University Consortium Council (CUCC)
4
The Port Hope Accord
5
Postsecondary Education Choice and Excellence Act
6
The Rae Review
7
Steering Committee on Credit Transfer
8
Honourable John Miloy -73.7 M / 5 years
9
10
Portal
ONCAT
Asked to submit course
outlines for credit assessments
Difficulty locating
transfer advisor/staff
Unable to plan credit-bycredit transfer accurately
Limited General Arts and Science college
to university course equivalencies
Save search results in OPTG
to review tomorrow
View new transfer
student orientations
Spend afternoon investigating
transfer policies at each institution
Investigate the OPTG
compare function
Investigate increased multilateral
articulation agreements
View terms for agreement
renewals and cancellations
Why Student Mobility?
Economics
Student
satisfaction
and need
Program
affinity
Shared vision
of executive
heads
Learning
outcomes
Geographic
proximity
Respect
professoriate
Do our Options Change our Need
for a Transfer System?
Ontario Online Institute
Teaching Intensive
Universities
Ontario Online Institute
• 40% of Alberta’s online Athabasca University students come from Ontario
“Credit transfer is about more than online learning and is already being
addressed through a more substantial system response”
Database of course
equivalencies for online
courses
Expedited registration
in online courses via
information exchange
through an OOI portal
Links to institutions’
policies and advisors
Teaching Intensive Universities
Campus 2020: Thinking Ahead-Teaching Intensive Universities
• Cohort of 23,506 students, 19 institutions, fall 2003, eligible
to transfer to a research intensive university in 2004/05
• Student Transition Project data-2009/10 academic year
Fall of 2004,
7,408 (31.5%) of
the ETR’s enrolled
at a teaching
intensive
university
931 (12.6%) of
4,338 (18.5%)
these students
earned Bachelor’s
subsequently
degree or higher
transferred to a
research intensive
university
1,233 (5.2%)
earned diploma or
certificate
College First- and Second-year
University Level Arts & Sciences
• Campus merger with the University of Alberta on July 1, 2004,
• Augustana University College became Augustana Faculty
“A liberal arts and sciences education helps form the whole person,
leadership is strongest when in service to others, and cooperation is
critical to success”
Biology
Augustana
BIO 216
Athabasca
BIOL 3xx
University
of
Lethbridge
BIOL2xx
University
of Calgary
ZOOL 377
University
of Alberta
ZOOL 225
Concordia
University
College
BES 225
Satellite Campuses: CollegeUniversity Combinations
• Integrated degree and diploma
• Faculty and resources
• Undergraduate programming
• Programs in demand
• Combined academics and
administration
Questions for Consideration
Parents
Students
MPPs
Mayors
PSE
Initiatives
Thank-you
Christine Helen Arnold
Ph.D. Candidate, Higher Education
OISE/University of Toronto
c.arnold@utoronto.ca