On March 3, 2011, the Baruch College Faculty Senate passed the following resolution  unanimously:

Resolution 2: CUNY Can Improve the Transfer Process By Implementing Better Operational And Information Resources.

Whereas:

• Students transferring within CUNY have difficulties transferring all their credits to the ‘receiving’ college;
• Frequently the difficulties transfer students face come not from curricular rigor but from:
  • insufficient advisement resources in the sending colleges, leading students to not take courses they need, and conversely, to take courses they do not need;
  • lack of online transcript information provided to the admissions offices of the receiving college to accept students who have taken appropriate pre-requisite courses;
  • inadequate and out-of-date online course catalog descriptions available to those who evaluate transfer credit, including department chairs;
• Of the students transferring to Baruch from CUNY community colleges, 52 % arrive with more than 60 credits, on average with seven credits more;
• At the February 3^rd meeting of the Baruch College Faculty Senate, Vice Chancellor Logue stated that CUNY’s information systems were inadequate for providing transfer transcript information to the individual campuses;
• ‘Pathways’ agreements have existed between all six community colleges and Baruch on existing curricula for almost five years, but the CUNY transfer system precludes implementing these agreements;
• The ‘Transfer Report’ of October 2011 does not sufficiently take these operational deficiencies into account;

Resolved:

• CUNY should implement sufficient operational and information resources to address the obstacles to transfer before weakening curricular and educational standards.