SB77 Summary

• Requires public two-year colleges to award an associate degree to transfer students who accumulate 60 semester hour credits and meet degree requirements.

• Defines transfer students as those who earned at least 15 semester hour credits from a two-year college and subsequently transfer to a four-year college or Athens State University.

• Mandates the Articulation and General Studies Committee to notify transfer students upon reaching 60 combined semester hour credits and transmit their email address to their originating two-year college.

• Requires the two-year college to conduct a degree audit and either award the associate degree or notify the student of additional coursework needed to qualify.

• Allows governing boards of two-year and four-year colleges to develop reverse transfer agreements consistent with the bill's intent; effective three months after passage.