Guidelines for Articulation of Distance Courses Offered
Through ADEC
These guidelines are for articulation of courses offered through ADEC by member institutions and closely related colleges and universities. The guidelines relate to uniform standards for transferring distance agricultural, natural resource, veterinary and human science course credits among member institutions.
The ADEC consortium is a mechanism for delivery of distance courses. As such it will provide coordination of course delivery, consultation to users and a collective voice for program planning and development among the participating institutions. ADEC will facilitate in this process by establishing and maintaining a central data base and web-site. ADEC publishes "good practice" suggestions for distance education courses that have been developed in various academic organizations and journals. ADEC also opens the door to many international opportunities which includes sending and receiving courses. In a world grown increasingly small, international exchange of course materials will become more important.
Faculty throughout the system are encouraged to consider distance delivery of appropriate courses. In addition to institutional resources to assist in moving toward this mode of delivery, ADEC offers an important source of information and services. ADEC and the institutional affiliates strongly encourage faculty participation in the consortium activities.
WHEREAS there is rapid growth of distance delivery courses and course offerings will undoubtedly increase in the next decade; and
WHEREAS the community of ADEC institutions can advance much more rapidly together than can individual institutions working alone; and
WHEREAS ADEC provides a means through which institutions can work together in establishing new courses of study or in the revision of existing courses offered at member institutions; and
WHEREAS there is need to provide a vehicle for the dissemination of information on courses, curricula, and transfer arrangements between ADEC institutions;
Now, it is therefore resolved by the ADEC member institutions that:
- Each ADEC institution offering undergraduate and graduate studies in agricultural,
natural resources, veterinary and human sciences will share transfer policies on use of
distance delivery courses.
- Information on changes in distance delivery courses offered through ADEC, or
policies should be shared immediately with the institutions affected through the ADEC
web-site and other appropriate mechanisms. Institutions are responsible for
providing information to update the ADEC web-site and keep the information current.
- Each institution offering a distance course through ADEC will produce evidence that
the course meets the quality standards of the offering institution and be useable for
credut in the offering institution. ADEC will provide for fair and equitable peer
evaluation of courses for transfer credit on request of the offering institution.
- Receiving institutions are responsible for evaluating and approving courses offered through ADEC.
Academic deans pledge their support of distance education and will help facilitate in the development and use of distance delivery approaches.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, the parties have executed these guidelines on the day and year set forth below:
| Marvin Ceppica | 02-22-98 | |
| Texas Tech University | Date | |
| Al Lingg | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Idaho | Date | |
| Michael J. Burke | 02-22-98 | |
| Oregon State University | Date | |
| R. Kirby Barrick | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Illinois | Date | |
| H. Dean Sutphin | 02-22-98 | |
| Cornell University | Date | |
| Joe T. Davis | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Kentucky | Date | |
| John B. Riley | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Tennessee | Date | |
| Ian L. Maw | 02-22-98 | |
| Rutgers University | Date | |
| George T. Barthalmus | 02-22-98 | |
| North Carolina State University | Date | |
| John M. White | 02-22-98 | |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Date | |
| Marla McIntosh | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Maryland | Date | |
| Robert D. Arthur | 02-22-98 | |
| Southern Illinois University | Date | |
| David E. Cox | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Arizona | Date | |
| Donald L. Lindsey | 02-22-98 | |
| New Mexico State University | Date | |
| Paul D. Hummer | 02-22-98 | |
| Oklahoma State University | Date | |
| Eric O. Hoiberg | 02-22-98 | |
| Iowa State University | Date | |
| Kerry S. Odell | 02-22-98 | |
| West Virginia University | Date | |
| Robert A. Voitle | 02-22-98 | |
| Auburn University | Date | |
| Richard Barrows | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | Date | |
| Karl G. Brandt | 02-22-98 | |
| Purdue University | Date | |
| James C. Heird | 02-22-98 | |
| Colorado State University | Date | |
| Rollin H. Abernethy | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Wyoming | Date | |
| Annie King | 02-22-98 | |
| University of California, Davis | Date | |
| Donald M. Edwards | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Date | |
| Jose A. Villamil-Freytes | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Puerto Rico | Date | |
| Dan Bartell | 02-22-98 | |
| California State University - Fresno | Date | |
| J. Arley Larson | 02-22-98 | |
| Northwest Missouri State University | Date | |
| Thomas J. Lindahl | 02-22-98 | |
| University of Wisconsin - Platteville | Date | |
| Keith Rogers | 02-22-98 | |
| Arizona State University | Date | |
| J. Randy Winter | 02-22-98 | |
| Illinois State University | Date | |
| James R. Clark | 02-22-98 | |
| West Texas A&M University | Date | |
| Joseph J. Jen | 02-22-98 | |
| California Polytechnic State University | Date | |
| Harley W. Foutch | 02-22-98 | |
| Middle Tennessee State University | Date | |
| Danny E. Terry | 02-22-98 | |
| Western Illinois University | Date | |
| Joyce K. Davis | 02-22-98 | |
| Eastern New Mexico University | Date | |
| James M. McGuire | 02-22-98 | |
| Southern Illinois University - Carbondale | Date | |