So, at today’s meeting of PaSSHE College Ready and Placement Work Group we’re hearing from Kathleen Howley, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs.  At the moment, we’re talking about course numbering. Yes, course numbering.  We were just given a handout showing course equivalencies and course numbers across the State System.  As it turns out, Kutztown is the only campus that has Gen Ed courses–like composition–that begin with a zero (0) (ENG 022, 023, 025, etc.).  According to Howley and Ira Blake (also Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs), it  is Board of Governor policy that all introductory courses should be listed as 100 level courses.  Apparently, 0-level courses are supposed to be “remedial” classes.  So, despite the fact that equivalencies/transferability has already been established by a State organization TAOC (Transfer Articulation Oversight Committee), the assumption is being made by legislators and PaSSHE administration that we (KU) are giving college credit for remedial courses.  

This just gets more and more amazing each day.