LibraryC1 High-value operations1c Credit evaluation and articulation
LTI-OPS-023
Restrict residency requirements to exclude prior learning and transfer credits
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearapplies
Mechanism
Residency rules stop counting against transferred credit, so athletes, veterans and returning adults are not made to repeat work they already did.
Preconditions
Academic Senate approval of revised residency requirements in the catalog.
Owner, by role
Registrar / Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee
Who can act
One institution alone
Effort
Medium, 9 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Redundant credits taken in residence by transferring seniors
Failure modes
Department-level rules may override general institutional policies by imposing major-specific residency minimums.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-OPS-016 Assess non-academic learning through portfolio-based evaluation
- LTI-OPS-018 Map military training to course equivalencies via ACE guidelines