Articulation petition actions being sent to Advisement Database

To:                               CAA

From:                          Articulation Office

Subject:                       Articulation petition actions being sent to Advisement Database

We are pleased to report that, as suggested by several advisors, emails sent to students regarding actions taken on their articulation petitions are now being sent automatically to the advisement database.  This is only done for petitions filed using the online articulation process on OASIS;  almost all students can and should use the online process rather than paper petitions.*

Students receive emails regarding their petitions with the following actions:

--Approved

--Denied

--Partly granted (e.g., they asked for equivalence and GE but only got GE)

--Hold for more information (e.g., the student is asked to provide papers, syllabus, etc)

--On hold pending departmental review (we have sent the petition to the relevant department)

--No action (this includes:  petitions we cannot grant, such as requests for GE IV or VI or equivalence to upper division courses;  situations where we cannot grant GE to a science lecture course but we advise the student to apply to take a lab at USC to accompany the lecture course;  student requests credit he or she already has).

The email that is sent to the student and the advisement database includes in the subject line: 

Petition number, course ID, action, student ID.  E.g.:

Artic petn # 3746 ENG 307U:  Hold for more info 1234567890

You can open the email in the advisement database to see the further message provided to the student (e.g., details on what additional information we have requested from the student).

Emails have been sent regarding petitions acted on since November 11.

Please let us know if this information is helpful, or if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thank you very much.

*The paper petition is still available but there is usually no reason to use it.  Even students who only have papers or other documents in hardcopy should use the online process and hand in their documents separately.  The only students who must file a paper petition are those whose transfer courses were taken at international schools (paper petition should be sent to International Admissions), or former students who do not have access to OASIS (see the articulation office home page for more specifics).