Don't let the Atlantic Ocean inhibit articulation and opportunity.(point of view)

You've seen the headlines: University of California Raising Tuition and Limiting Admission' California State University Reducing 2010 Class by 40,000

'California Community Colleges Enroll Record Numbers

Despite all of that, community colleges still want to create multiple transfer opportunities for their students, and many baccalaureate degree-granting institutions have seats and want to take in more transfer students.

Sounds like a match made in heaven, but the devil is in the details, and the devil is articulation.

In California, major articulation is done course to course, campus to campus. It is very labor intensive, requiring analysis of …