It is the decision of Texas State Technical College Harlingen (TSTC) to establish uniform procedures concerning articulation between the TSTC Harlingen campus and other educational institutions.

1. The Director of Collaborative Projects is responsible for securing approvals for and maintaining Tech Prep and Articulation Agreements between TSTC Harlingen instructional programs and other cooperating schools.
   
   
2. Tech Prep/Articulation Agreements may include awarding entering students a grade of “CR” for specified courses required to complete instructional program curricula.
   
   
3. Credits awarded will be conditional on a student’s demonstrated successful progress during the first term enrolled in the instructional program.

1. Articulation Agreement – A written agreement between TSTC Harlingen instructional program and a cooperating school, under which an incoming student is granted credit for TSTC course work on the basis of technical courses completed in high school.
   
   
2. Tech Prep Agreement – A six-year curriculum plan providing a comprehensive and coordinated program of technical study from the high school through a two-year associate’s degree program. (Tech Prep Agreements must include at least six hours of articulated credit.)
   
   
3. Cooperating School – A school that has agreed to certify objectives achieved by its students that are common to those included in a TSTC Harlingen instructional program curriculum.

OFFICE OF COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

1. The Director of Collaborative Projects is responsible for coordinating the activities involved in developing Articulation Agreements and Tech Prep Agreements between TSTC Harlingen instructional programs and cooperating schools.
   
   
2. To successfully enroll a Tech Prep and/or Articulation Agreement applicant, the Director of Collaborative Projects is responsible for providing all documents that meet TSTC Harlingen admission and residency requirements as well as the information to register the student for courses.
   
   
3. When a student from a cooperating school enrolls, the Director of Collaborative Projects is responsible for initiating the award of credit and for monitoring the successful progress of the student.

PROGRAM CHAIR

OFFICE OF ADMISSION & RECORDS

1. Requests to develop articulation agreements are forwarded to the Vice President of Student Learning.
   
   
2. The cooperating school provides TSTC Harlingen with a list of the objectives that each completing student will have achieved.
   
   
3. The Director of Collaborative Projects arranges for meeting of faculty from TSTC and the cooperating school to identify objectives common to the curriculum for both schools.
   
   
4. The Director of Collaborative Projects prepares for the Program Chair a proposed Articulation Agreement/Tech Prep Agreement that identifies the credits or partial credits that will be awarded to entering students from the cooperating school.
   
   
5. The Director of Collaborative Projects secures all necessary signatures on the Tech Prep/ Articulation Agreement.
   
   
6. The Director of Collaborative Projects forwards copies of the Articulation / Tech Prep Agreements to the cooperating school, the TSTC Harlingen Program Chair, the Director of Admission & Records and the Director of College Information.
   
   
7. The Director of Collaborative Projects will review each Articulation / Tech Prep Agreements on an annual basis to ensure that all elements are up to date.