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The efforts of all ATF meeting participants will produce the following outcomes:

I. Implementation of the Arizona Transfer Model to ensure that community college students may transfer to Arizona public universities without a loss of credits toward a baccalaureate degree by:

A. Making recommendations to confirm current baccalaureate degrees within the discipline specific ATF in categories/pathways that articulate with the two-year transfer degrees.

B. Making recommendations for the placement of new baccalaureate degrees in categories and/or pathways with which they articulate.

C. Making recommendations to increase commonality among lower-division requirements of majors shared by two or more institutions. This includes general education requirements and defining and maintaining at least six credits of lower-division coursework common to the shared university majors.

D. Making recommendations to increase commonality between lower- division course requirements of majors shared by two or more institutions.

E. Making recommendations for a minimum of six common lower-division credits for all majors

F. Making recommendations for the appropriate level for new courses according to the Criteria for Upper- and Lower-Division Courses as developed by APASC.

G. Recommends the appropriate Arizona General Education Curriculum as part of the lower division preparation for a baccalaureate degree within the discipline specific ATF.

H. Making recommendations to update the Course Applicability System (CAS) Course Equivalency Guide.

II. Providing mechanisms for anticipating and/or resolving transfer issues by:

A. Communicating accurate information for use by community college students regarding degree program requirements of the universities and the transferability of community college courses to those programs specifically within the appropriate transfer pathway.

B. Sending the completed ATF Chair Report and Approved Meeting Notes  to the Articulation Facilitator within 30 days, including:

1.    Institutions represented at the meeting (including names of the participants).

2.    Editorial changes to the ATF Handbook list of Members.

3.    Pathway (new, confirmed, or changed).

4.    Common Courses (new, confirmed, or changed).

5.    Summary of addressed agenda items that require follow up.

6.    Summary of issues to be shared with APASC.

7.    Communicating programmatic changes as they are under development:

a.    identifying the impact of proposed programmatic changes under development at the community colleges or universities which may affect the transferability of credits or blocks of credits (pathways and AGECs);

b.    identifying the impact of proposed changes to courses.

8.    Identifying the date, location, host, chair, and tentative agenda items for the meetings of the next academic year.