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Lamar State College Port Arthur
2016-2017 Catalog
(c) All public colleges and universities must
accept transfer of credit for successfully completed
courses identified in subsections (a) and (b) of this
section as applicable to an associate or
baccalaureate degree in the same manner as credit
awarded to non-transfer students in that major.
(d) Each institution must accept in transfer into
a baccalaureate degree the number of lower division
semester credit hours in a major which are allowed
for non-transfer students in that major; however,
1.

No institution is required to accept in transfer
more semester credit hours in a major than the
number set out in the applicable Coordinating
Board-approved Transfer Curriculum for that
major, as prescribed by the current issue of the
Coordinating Board’s guide to transfer curricula
and transfer of credit, Transfer of Credit
Policies and Curricula.

2.

In any major for which there is no Coordinating
Board approved Transfer Curriculum, no
institution is required to accept in transfer more
lower division course credit in the major
applicable to a baccalaureate degree than the
institution allows their non-transfer students in
that major.

3.

Transfer Disputes for LowerDivision Courses

(a) The following procedures shall be followed by
institutions of higher education in the resolution of
credit transfer disputes involving lower-division
courses:
(1) If an institution of higher education does not
accept course credit earned by a student at
another institution of higher education, the
receiving institution shall give written notice to
the student and to the sending institution that
transfer of the course credit is denied, and shall
include in that notice the reasons for denying
the credit. Attached to the written notice shall
be the procedures for resolution of transfer
disputes for lower-division courses as outlined
in this section, accompanied by clear
instructions outlining the procedure for
appealing the decision to the Commissioner.
(2) A student who receives notice as specified in
paragraph (1) of this subsection may dispute the
denial of credit by contacting a designated
official at either the sending or the receiving
institution.
(3) The two institutions and the student shall
attempt to resolve the transfer of the course
credit in accordance with Board rules and
guidelines.

A university may deny the transfer of credit in
courses with a grade of “D” as applicable to a
student’s field of study courses, core curriculum
courses, or major.

(4) If the transfer dispute is not resolved to the
satisfaction of the student or the sending
institution within 45 days after the date the
student received written notice of denial, the
sending
institution
may
notify
the
Commissioner in writing of the request for
transfer dispute resolution, and the institution
that denies the course credit for transfer shall
notify the Commissioner in writing of its denial
and the reasons for the denial.

(e) All senior institutions of higher education in
Texas must provide support services for transfer
students equivalent to those provided to nontransfer students regularly enrolled at the
institutions, including an orientation program for
transfer students equivalent to that provided for
entering freshman enrollees.
(f) No university is required to accept in transfer
or toward a degree, more than 66 semester credit
hours of academic credits earned by community
college student. Universities, however, may choose
to accept additional semester credit hours.

Noncompliance with Transfer Rules

If the Coordinating Board determines that an
institution
inappropriately
or
unnecessarily
required a student to retake a course that is
substantially equivalent to a course already taken at
another institution, in violation of the provisions of
Section 5.391 of the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board Rules and Regulations (relating
to Requirements and Limitations), formula funding
for semester credit hours in the repeated course will
be deducted from the institution's appropriations.

(b) The Commissioner or the Commissioner's
designee shall make the final determination about a
dispute concerning the transfer of course credit and
give written notice of the determination to the
involved student and institutions.
(c) Each institution of higher education shall publish
in its course catalogs the procedures specified in
subsections (a), (b), (d), and (e) of this section.
(d) The Board shall collect data on the types of
transfer disputes that are reported and the
disposition of each case that is considered by the
Commissioner or the Commissioner's designee.
(e) If a receiving institution has cause to believe that
a course being presented by a student for transfer
from another school is not of an acceptable level of
quality, it should first contact the sending

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