Three Laredo College professors — Selinda Martinez, Briana Underbakke, and George E. Macdonald Jr. — have been appointed to serve on the Texas Transfer Advisory Committee (TTAC) of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).
The goal of the TTAC is to ease the transfer process for community college students who plan to transfer to public four-year universities.
LC Natural Sciences Department Chair Selinda Martinez, along with appointees Underbakke, and Macdonald, will assist with establishing a new framework for transfer curricula for students attending community colleges. They were selected from a pool of 140 nominatioins submitted by more than 50 community colleges and universities. Ultimately 22 committee members were selected.
Underbakke, a professor of Criminal Justice, was appointed to the TTAC’s Discipline-Specific Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. Members of this committee, who were tasked with focusing on the field of study curriculum to facilitate a more fluid transfer process, met via Zoom to determine classes to recommend for the core curriculum, the discipline foundation courses, and the directed electives. Discipline foundation courses will be transferrable to any four-year institution in Texas.
LC Business Management Department Chair George E. Macdonald Jr. will also be aiding students in their transition from a college to a university setting as an appointee to the new Texas Transfer Framework Field of Study Discipline-Specific Subcommittee for Business Administration.
This subcommittee, which is composed of faculty from public two-year and four-year institutions, will consider which courses to recommend for inclusion in the new Texas Transfer Framework for Business Administration. The charge of the subcommittee is to use a data-informed approach to support transfer students from community colleges and specifically to maximize the applicability of courses to a major when they transfer to a university.
