Wertheim This is the first such degree transfer agreement between the two campuses, though more than 90 general education courses at Ivy Tech already are accepted at IUB.

The agreement will permit students who earn an associate’s degree in science in the general studies program at Ivy Tech to transfer into the bachelor of general studies degree program at IUB. Faculty from both institutions have developed a list of course equivalencies approved for transfer to IUB.

Judy Wertheim, interim dean of the IU School of Continuing Studies, and James Smith, academic dean at Ivy Tech, participated in the signing ceremony, along with chancellors from both campuses. Ron White, director of the IUB Division of Continuing Studies, said the transfer agreement will open new opportunities, especially for working adults. “This transfer agreement will be a plus for working adults who may want to start or who have started a degree at Ivy Tech and want to finish their work,” he said.

The Statewide Transfer and Articulation Committee was put in place in April 2000, and its efforts to develop statewide transfer agreements are ongoing, but the general studies agreement is the result of a more informal set of initiatives between the two campuses.

In March 2003, an articulation agreement between the IU School of Education at IUPUI and Ivy Tech allowed for graduates of Ivy Tech’s early education program in Indianapolis to transfer to IUPUI to complete baccalaureate degrees in elementary education. That agreement was part of a growing number of transfer options between IUPUI and Ivy Tech, through its jointly operated student transfer program called Passport.