Tennessee Board of Regents Admissions Standards implemented in Fall 1989 apply to all students graduating from any in-state or out-of-state high school or those receiving the GED certificate Spring 1989 and thereafter.
Students should present a high school transcript containing evidence of satisfactory completion of the high school core courses in the following areas:
Students who are admitted with deficiencies are required to complete courses to remove those deficiencies within the first 60 semester hours of residency. Failure to remove the deficiencies within the allotted time will result in expulsion from the university.
Satisfactory ACT scores or COMPASS tests in English and reading are used to determine the placement of students requiring removal of unit deficiencies in English.
Satisfactory ACT scores or COMPASS mathematics tests are used to determine the placement of students requiring removal of unit deficiencies in Algebra I or II.
Consequently, students deficient in English or mathematics units may remove those deficiencies by (1) scoring at COMPASS college course placement levels and thereby demonstrating competency, (2) completing DSP courses indicated by COMPASS placement, or (3) scoring 26 or above on the ACT composite. [ACT scores presented after COMPASS assessment are not considered valid for release from requirements.]
Removal of deficiencies in areas other than English and mathematics requires completion of courses specified for that purpose. See "Removing High School Unit Deficiencies" in the Admissions section of the TTU Undergraduate Catalog.
UPDATE: August 2007
Office of Enrollment Management Ÿ
P.O. Box 5006 Ÿ
(931) 372-3888
M E M O R A N D U M
TO:
Academic Deans, Chairs, and Advisors
FROM:
Dr. Robert L. Hodum, Executive Director of Enrollment Management
DATE:
August 23, 2007
RE:
Revised A89 High School Deficiency Policy
The
Tennessee Board of Regents and the TBR Presidents have revised the A89 High
School Deficiency Policy. The
revised policy is attached to this memo, with major changes in red
bold text. These are very
important changes which may alter how we advise students regarding coursework to
remove high school deficiencies.
The most
important distinction in the new policy is that courses taken by a student to
remove high school deficiencies may now also be counted toward general education
credit and graduation credit. These
courses will still carry the usual notation on the student record indicated by a
pound sign (#), but now they will also be used for regular credit.
Please
distribute this information as needed. If
you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
Thank you for your assistance.
Guideline No: A-015
Subject: Admissions
The following guidelines are intended to facilitate the implementation of TBR Policy 2:03:00:00 (Admissions).
I. Undergraduate Degree Admission
A. Minimum High School Unit
Requirements
1. Approved List of High School Courses. Only specific and approved high school courses may be applied to meeting the minimum unit requirements for admission. Because high school curricula may change from time to time, the TBR staff will periodically, after consultation with the State Department of Education, disseminate the current list to each institution. Institutions may propose for consideration high school courses they consider to have been inappropriately omitted.
2. Issues of Interpretation. To ensure consistency of interpretation and practice, institutions should inform the TBR academic staff of questions raised relative to specific high school courses and the appropriateness of any inclusion or exclusion.
B. Removal of Admissions Deficiencies
Institutions will develop procedures whereby students admitted without
minimum high school unit requirements fulfilled may remove those
admissions deficiencies in a timely manner. Minimally, such procedures
must ensure that:
1. Students are notified of how to remove deficiencies.
2. Students may remove deficiencies in social studies, history, visual/performing arts, science, and geometry/advanced mathematics by completing the appropriate blocks of subject categories in the TBR Forty-One Semester Hour General Education Curriculum. Courses taken to remove deficiencies in the affected subjects also apply toward fulfillment of general education requirements.
3. Students who have deficiencies in English or Algebra are subject to applicable provisions governing Developmental Studies. These provisions are identified in Guideline A-100.
4. Students may remove deficiencies of one or two units of a single foreign language through completion of an approved semester course in a single foreign language for each unit deficiency as specified by the collegiate institution. Courses used to complete deficiencies in foreign language may be designated as electives and apply toward fulfillment of graduation requirements; however, in certain courses of study with restricted ranges of electives, these courses may become add-on hours.
Students whose primary language is not English will be deemed to have satisfied the minimum unit requirements in foreign language if they demonstrate proficiency in English through achieving satisfactory scores on the TOFEL Examination or other recognized instrument as designated by the collegiate institution.
II. Alternative Admissions
The number or percentage of students that a university may accept in any one year under the Alternative Admissions provisions of TBR Policy 2:03:00:00 (Admissions) is fixed and approved by the TBR for each institution.
A. Approved Number or Percent
The currently approved number or percentage for each institution is as follows:
APSU 10% or 100, whichever is greater; ETSU up to 150; UOM up to 10%; MTSU up to 10%; TSU up to 5% or 100; TTU up to 250.
B. Modifications of Approved Number
Any modification of the approved number or percent must have TBR approval before it may be implemented. Source: Presidents Meeting of November 1990; Presidents Meeting, November 8, 2006; Presidents Meeting, May 16, 2007