The Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education (BOR) recently approved the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) General Education Transfer Credit Alignment Policy. The new policy will eliminate the barriers of transferring general education credits between the two- and four-year CSCU institutions and provides transparency on how courses will be applied to CSCU four-year institutions’ degrees. This will make it easier for students currently enrolled at a Connecticut State Community College to transfer their credits to complete a four-year degree at Western Connecticut State University.

The new policy applies to all Connecticut State Community College (CT State) students and eliminates the risk of CT State’s general education courses and credits not transferring to CSCU’s four-year institutions such as WestConn.

The CSCU General Education Transfer Credit Alignment Policy will eliminate barriers in navigating specific general education requirements between CSCU institutions; reducing the risk of CT State’s general education courses not being applied as general education courses at CSCU receiving institutions, decreasing the risk of students taking excess credit hours, and simplifying academic planning for vertical transfer between CT State to WestConn or CSCU’s other four-year institutions.