The Statewide Transfer Committee and staff of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education performed a review of state policy and implementation guidelines facilitating the transfer of credits between public colleges and universities in the Commonwealth. Through this process a series of recommendations for improvement of the statewide transfer policy and implementation guidelines were developed. The Council of Chief Academic Officers met April 2011 to discuss the policy, and they support these recommendations. Upon approval by the Council on Postsecondary Education (June 2011), the policy will take effect fall semester 2012. The Statewide Transfer Committee and the Statewide General Education Taskforce are charged with the implementation and annual review of the revised policy. The following guidelines reflect approved updates to the General Education Transfer Policy and Implementation Guidelines (2004). The spirit of the original policy – emphasizing the professional integrity of all public institutions in the acceptance of general education coursework between institutions – remains a key element of the revised policy. The updated General Education Transfer Policy and Implementation Guidelines (2012) will be in effect for all students admitted for the fall semester 2012.
The purpose of the Kentucky General Education Transfer Policy is to:
Emphasize aspects of general education requirements that are common among public institutions in Kentucky and encourages completion of approved AA/AS transfer programs.
Promote the acceptability of general education credits as students transfer from one public institution to another.
Enhance cooperation among institutions with respect to academic advising for undergraduates who plan to transfer from one public institution to another.
1. The transfer of general education credits is predicated on the acquisition of competencies in broad academic areas, rather than on a comparison of individual courses taken at one
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