The TCCNS Purpose Statement:
The TCCNS is a transferability guide that will aid students, counselors, advisers, and transfer staff in determining course equivalency to higher education institutions.
The TCCNS Goals and Usage* (See Disclaimer Below):
Student Goals:
Students will use the TCCNS to determine how any TCCNS course aligns with various institutional naming and numbering systems.
Student Usage*:
All Texas, public, community colleges are mandated to use the ACGM course inventory in their offerings to students. This ACGM number appears in the TCCNS column in the TCCNS. Students can use the TCCNS to view the courses designed for transfer that each institution offers. Students can also use the TCCNS to view how universities will evaluate various community college courses at their particular, 4-year, institution.
High School Counselor Goals:
High school counselors will use the TCCNS as one of many tools in the toolbox to aid students who are taking dual credit and/or concurrent courses. Counselors can use the TCCNS to assist students with making informed decisions in how courses taken as a Dual Credit (DC) student may/may not transfer to the student's intended 4-year institution.
High School Counselor Usage*:
In addition to maintaining strong conversations with the 4-year partners, counselors need to know that the inventories as institutions are typically bound by catalog year so the TCCNS courses will be ever changing as new courses are added, courses are deactivated/renumbered, and institutions change their own inventories.
University Goals:
Universities will review the ACGM and will compare these courses to their own curriculum to create a map for students, counselors, and community college displaying how various courses designed for transfer will transfer to their institution.
University Goals Usage*:
Universities will annually review and update their inventory. Universities will communicate to prospective students the caveats associated with credit transfer (e.g. grade minimums, degree applicability, etc.)
Community College Goals
1) Community Colleges will review their ACGM course offerings and update the TCCNS site to reflect their current TCCNS/ACGM courses.
2) Community Colleges can use the TCCNS as a tool (along with syllabi, MOU agreements, etc.) to view how 4-year university partners have mapped their own courses to the ACGM. 2-year institutions can use this mapping as a tool when dealing with the backwards mapping and/or reverse transferring credits related to course transferability back to their own institution.
Community Goals Usage*:
Community Colleges will annually review and update their inventory. Community Colleges will let transfer evaluation staff know this is a tool they can use and how it's created and it's intended use.
*Usage Disclaimers: Course equivalency or course transfer does not mean that the course will apply to a particular institution's degree plan. Also, a course that will transfer to one four-year institution as a particular course may not transfer to another four-year institution as the same course. The TCCNS provides a starting place for research. However, for courses to be guaranteed to apply to a degree plan, a student, staff member, etc. need to speak with the intended transfer institution who may look at factors such as if the courses completed are part of a FOS curriculum, if the student is core complete, and/or the catalog and catalog requirements and course offerings in place at the point the student enrolls.