(a) The Office of Higher Education shall publish on its Internet web site, links to the existing transfer and articulation programs developed between the Connecticut state colleges and universities and The University of Connecticut. Each institution within the jurisdiction of the constituent units shall include on its Internet web site a link to the Officer of Higher Education’s Internet web site and provide information regarding such transfer and articulation programs. Each institution of higher education in this state, receiving federal funding pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965, shall provide on its Internet web site a link to the institution’s most recent institutional profile provided on the National Center for Education Statistic’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Internet web site.

(b) The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities shall provide any student who has been accepted for admission to an institution within the jurisdiction of the regional community-technical college system with information about the existing transfer and articulation programs between the regional technical-community colleges and four-year public institutions of higher education.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and The University of Connecticut shall each submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education. Such report shall analyze the existing transfer and articulation programs utilized by students who attended a regional technical-community college and who transferred to a four-year public institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, (1) enrollment of transfer students, (2) the average number of credits accepted by the four-year public institution, and (3) graduation rates of transfer students.

(P.A. 17-229, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 17-229 effective January 1, 2018.