Academic Affairs (OAA) is the central administrative office tasked with promoting the institutional academic mission, programming and policy implementation, support programs for personnel and students, academic fiscal management, and is responsible for collective bargaining with the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers Union. Academic Affairs is the home for the Registrar’s Office. Together our unit collaborates with the campus and external communities to achieve the academic mission and vision of the University.

The DARS and Transfer Articulation Specialist reports directly to the Registrar’s Office (RO) in support of program areas that provide information and services to current and returning students in order to facilitate their PSU enrollment and post-enrollment record-keeping. The Registrar’s Office is made up of four functional areas; Registration and Records, Academic Scheduling, Degree Requirements, and Veterans; whose purpose is to maintain student class schedules and registration methods, as well as providing scholastic progress reviews, grade reports, degree eligibility and clearance, secure academic records, transcript issues and enrollment verification. The Registrar’s Office also publishes university policies and regulation and prepares necessary reports and studies associated with these processes.

This position works as part of the Degree Progress Technology team and is responsible for providing support to university enrollment, retention, graduation, advising, and student success initiatives by evaluating transfer courses using accreditation standards, course catalogs, syllabi, and best practices to determine acceptability of course and proper articulation to PSU. This requires building course articulation rules and course limit rules in the DARS system tables for domestic schools by reviewing transfer school catalogs, evaluating post-baccalaureate transfer students based on transcripted courses, and evaluating military credit from the DOD website.

 

The DARS and Transfer Articulation Specialist also serves as a liaison and source of information for RO, Admissions, Advising, and other PSU partners. This involves monitoring the transfer articulation service email account and responding to questions/requests in an expedited and professional manner.