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Senate panel hears bill to study and reduce credit loss for community college transfers

3111862 · April 24, 2025
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Senator West presented Senate Bill 3039 to the Senate Committee on Education K‑16 as a proposal to study and address uneven acceptance of transfer credits from community colleges to four‑year universities.

Senator West presented Senate Bill 3039 to the Senate Committee on Education K‑16 as a follow‑up to statutory reforms enacted in 2019 under Senate Bill 25, saying the state continues to see an “imbalance in the acceptance of transfers” among four‑year institutions that causes students to lose credit hours when they move from community colleges.

“We have some institutions which annually reject thousands of credit hours submitted by transferring students, and some institutions who reject relatively few hours,” Senator West said,…

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