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Illinois Articulation Initiative The Illinois Articulation Initiative is also known as IAI and is the articulation agreement for the State of Illinois to assist students in transferring courses between institutions of higher education within the state. The agreement began to be forged in 1993 and was fully deployed in 1998. The two boards of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, IBHE, and the Illinois Community College Board , ICCB, oversee the articulation agreement. IAI’s daily function is housed at the IAI and iTransfer.org offices at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. The public face of the Illinois Articulation Initiative is the iTransfer.org website. The website has expanded to become the portal for all Illinois students looking to transfer credit from one higher education institution to another. All the information contained in this article is available for review on www.itransfer.org.

IAI consists of the General Education Core Curriculum, also known as the GECC. It also provides a set of recommended major courses that students can complete in order to help them progress through their major at 2 year institutions. The GECC is a guaranteed package that will transfer with a student to any institution who participates in the IAI agreement.

Institutions that offer a full package of GECC courses are called “full participating” institutions. Institutions that do not offer a full package of courses but agree to take a completed package from any other participating institution are called “receiving only” institutions.

IAI operates within a panel structure. The panels are manned by faculty within the specific discipline to recommend coursework and maintain valid course descriptions, approve coursework within a specific part of the IAI structure (i.e. GECC Communications or IAI Mathematics Major), and review coursework and previous recommendations for current standards and to maintain relativity.

There is currently a directive created by IBHE and ICCB to strengthen the articulation of IAI approved majors from 2 year institutions in the state to the 4 year public institutions. This directive will create course to course articulation for the major core courses as recommended by the IAI major panels.

IAI continues to evolve and review practices to maintain educational quality and relevance. For more information on the Illinois Articulation Initiative or itransfer.org, please visit the website at: www.itransfer.org.