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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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State Strategy: Common Course Numbering is one of many state strategies to improve transfer-focused transitions from public community college to universities given the large numbers of students who transfer from community colleges. Approximately one third of Oregon’s public university graduates with a bachelor’s degree in recent years transferred from an Oregon community college.
Increased Need: Undergraduate transfer students represent a large and growing segment of OSU student population across all our locations and modalities. OSU continues to work on making pathways into the university seamless for students coming from other Oregon postsecondary institutions and beyond. In addition to internal initiatives to evaluate and improve the transfer student transition and experience, OSU is active in efforts to streamline transfer in Oregon.
OSU's Commitment: While many of these initiatives are mandated through legislation, OSU believes there is great value in making transferring within the state more transparent for students and is committed to working alongside our state colleagues to create a streamlined process.
SB 233, passed in 2021, establishes a statewide 15-member Transfer Council with representation from Oregon’s public universities, community colleges, and from secondary education. The Transfer Council is charged with developing recommendations to improve academic credit transfer and transfer pathways between Oregon’s public community colleges and universities. Specifically, the Transfer Council is to develop a common course numbering system and continue work on Major Transfer Maps while also addressing other credit transfer-related concerns, building upon the transfer work previously completed under HB 2998 (2017).
This work will support the State’s commitment to equity (Oregon Equity Lens), which “requires the intentional examination of systemic policies and practices that, even if they have the appearance of fairness, may in effect serve to marginalize some and perpetuate disparities.” CCN will remain a primary conduit for achieving this goal by aligning the most transferred courses in Oregon.
Faculty Course Alignment Subcommittees are tasked with the following:
In addition to the statewide committees, several staff and faculty are working hard to support implementation at OSU:
There are many nuances to this project and we encourage you to participate! Here are a few ways for you to get involved:
All public meetings (and materials) of the Transfer Council and its subcommittees are available on Current HECC Public Meeting Materials. Additionally, subscribe to receive the public meeting notices and announcements via email.
If your program requires one of the courses, connect with and and support the OSU faculty representative working on that subcommittee.
After Transfer Council approves the next set of courses to be aligned, a request for faculty nomination will be sent out to Chief Academic Offices, Provosts, faculty associations, and other relevant unions. You may also self-nominate to serve on a Faculty Course Alignment subcommittee for two-years.
| Month | Action |
|---|---|
| January - June | CCN Groups convene to align course learning outcomes, credits, and make recommendations on number, prefix, and name where possible |
| September - December | CCN Groups present aligned courses to Transfer Council and HECC Commission for approval |
| April of the next year | Courses developed in prior calendar year are now available for student enrollment |