Transfer Credit FAQ

I have a student who has come in with over 24 hours of transfer credit but they do not have the 24+ credit hour waiver on their General Education Requirements.

If you believe a student is missing the 24+ transfer credit hour waiver, please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down. The guidelines for the waiver are as follows: The student has to come in with a total number of 21 credit hours and cannot have been a previous student at UB. It has to be courses from another institution; AP and CLEP credit do not count towards the unit count. The waivers the student receives apply to World Civ., Arts, American Pluralism and Humanities.

The articulation for a course a student took is not correct according to TAURUS. Also, a course that was articulated in DARS no longer has the correct articulation in HUB. How do I get this remedied?

If a student has a transfer course that has an incorrect articulation according to TAURUS or no articulation at all and you believe it should, please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down. You would also contact this list serv if an articulation is different from what was originally in DARS.

Sometimes the Transfer Credit tab “Details” link in the student center shows a simple list of Transfer courses with one line per course, similar to the transfer Credit Summary. For other students it has a full box for each course, which includes sequence and group numbers. Can we control which view we get?

The reason for the two different results is because in HUB there are two different populations. The students that have a full box for each course are those that were converted to DARS and their transfer credit is located in a different area. The other students are those that have run across the HUB articulation rules and transfer credit is displayed similar to that of the Transfer Credit Summary. Over time the population of converted students will decrease and you will see less and less of these.

I have a student whose transfer credit is all showing on their transfer tab in their student center, but it is not displaying on his AAR.

If you are in the student center and on the transfer credit tab, it says anything other than “POSTED” next to the transfer credit, it will not display on the AAR. If this is a continuing student please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down. If it is a new student, please contact the Admissions office to have the transfer credit posted.

I have a student who has the incorrect amount of credit posted to one of his transfer courses. For example, ENGL101 is posted as 4 units but it should only be 3.

If the transfer credit numbers is incorrect, please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down.

I have a student who has a transfer grade entry error.

If there is a transfer grade entry error please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down.

I have a student who has transfer credit on their transcript that is missing from their transfer credit summary.

If this is a continuing student please fill out the Request Help form (UBITName and Password required) and select SR: Transfer Credit from the drop down. If it is a new student, please contact the Admissions office to have this remedied.

When doing an exception with a student’s transfer credit, it articulates to TR999TR, however there are more than one TR999TR, how do I know which one to choose?

The first thing to do is to run the transfer credit data query. You do this by going to Main Menu » Reporting Tools » Query » Query Viewer.
Then enter in UB_AA for the query name and press search.
You than choose the last query on the list titled “UB_AA_TRANSFER_DATA.” Enter the student’s person number.
All of the student’s transfer courses will then display.
Find the course you would like to use, and locate the GROUP and SEQUENCE number.
Once you know these two numbers when looking through the TR999TR on the exception page, find the course with the same GROUP and SEQUENCE number and that is the course to choose.

In the past with DARS, we could have multiple course masks to an articulated course so it would fulfill different requirements for different majors, how is this now being handled in HUB?

The functionality of alternate identity rules has changed with the transition to HUB. HUB only allows for the articulation of a primary course or courses onto a student’s transfer credit report and AAR. Alternate IDs are no longer an automatic process but must now be processed as a departmental exception or by the office of the registrar for General Education Requirements. The TAURUS display will contain one identity for those rules with a note that indicates the alternate identities. The responsibility will be on the department to process or request (in the case of General Education Requirements) all alternate identities that are needed for a student’s degree program.

Where can I see the AP scores for an individual AP test?

You can see AP scores and articulation by running a transfer credit report.

How does English and Math Placement work in regards to Transfer Credit?

Placement information is automatically assigned based on a student’s SAT or ACT test score for the particular requirement (Writing or Math). In HUB, placement is informational only. Since this is informational only, it should no longer be necessary to change a student’s placement.

When a student has an SAT or ACT score that exempts them from the Writing Skills requirement; the Academic Advising Report will automatically waive this requirement out.

The only manual intervention necessary for skills placement would be when a student has completed transfer course at a prior institution and it does not directly articulate to ENG 101/102/201. In this scenario, a manual exception would need to be made on the student.

One key point to all of this is that placement has NO bearing on registration or pre-requisites.

Last updated: August 28, 2012 3:11 pm EST