TRANSFER REPORT

(a) Not later than May 1 of each year and in the form prescribed by the coordinating board, each general academic teaching institution shall provide to the coordinating board and the legislature a report that: (1) describes any courses in the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual or its successor adopted by the coordinating board for which a student who transfers to the institution from another institution of higher education is not granted: (A) academic credit at the receiving institution; or (B) if the student has declared a major and has not changed majors, academic credit toward the student's major at the receiving institution; (2) details the institution's goals to increase the number, success, and persistence, as measured by the coordinating board, of students who transfer to the institution from a public junior college; (3) assesses the institution's academic and technical transfer pathways; (4) identifies: (A) any existing barriers to transferring to the institution; and (B) emerging issues affecting transfer students at the institution; (5) details the institution's actions to serve current and prospective transfer students through local and regional articulation agreements that include: (A) faculty collaboration; (B) public junior college program enhancements; (C) student outreach and advising services; (D) website information development; (E) targeted financial aid; (F) student success programs; and (G) degree program alignment; and (6) contains any other information relating to the transfer of academic credit to the institution required by coordinating board rule. (b) A report required by this section must indicate for each course described by Subsection (a)(1): (1) the course name, type, and common course number; (2) the name of: (A) the institution of higher education or other postsecondary educational institution at which the student completed the course; and (B) the institution of higher education that awarded or transcribed academic credit for the course; and (3) the reason why the receiving institution did not grant academic credit for the course as described by Subsection (a), including whether the institution complied with the dispute resolution process under Section 61.826. (c) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the coordinating board shall submit to the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, the house appropriations committee, and the senate finance committee a report that evaluates actions to increase the number, success, and persistence of students who transfer to a general academic teaching institution from a public junior college. The report must include: (1) a comparative analysis of institution reports and performance data, including application and admission rates, financial aid awarded, time-to-degree, and baccalaureate graduation rates of students, including transfer students, by program completion at public junior colleges and general academic teaching institutions during the preceding academic year; (2) a study of public junior college transfer practices; and (3) recommendations for legislative or other action to meet the transfer student-related goals of the state's master plan for higher education developed under Section 61.051. (d) The coordinating board may adopt rules necessary to implement this section.