TESU switching to four-digit course codes

[jch]

This announcement recently arrived in my email inbox: 

Four-Digit Course Codes Are Coming
Course code changes will take effect during registration for the July term.

Dear Student,
The University has announced that TESU course codes are changing from 3 letters and 3 digits to 3 letters and 4 digits. As a result of this change, the majority of courses will contain a zero (0) added to the end of our course code. For example, ENC-101 is now ENC-1010.

Learn more by visiting our Course Code Changes FAQs page.

This change will occur during the July 2023 registration period that opens on June 2, 2023.

We expect the effect on students to be minimal. The change was necessary to expand to additional number places as the former 3-number course code system became too limiting for the number of courses the University now offers and uses as transfer equivalencies. The extra digit will be added to existing course numbers we offer and equivalency transfer course numbers.

If you need assistance registering for your courses or have additional questions about how the course numbering change might affect you, we can help. Call 609-777-5680 or email enrolled@tesu.edu.

The FAQs page goes on to say that students should expect minimal impact, no matter the scenario or concern. Thankfully, TESU systems are designed to rely on a different, more stable identifier for courses and credits. TESU expects to be working on updating their 15,000+(!!!!) transfer equivalencies through Fall 2023. Anything already on your academic record or evaluation will keep its existing course number.

[AnalysisParalysis]

This makes me nervous about Sophia classes I have banked up that aren't transferred yet, hopefully the equivalencies do not change much?

[bjcheung77]

Interesting, there is no need to be concerned or nervous.  As mentioned above email and faq, very little will change at all.  "We expect the effect on students to be minimal." "The FAQs page goes on to say that students should expect minimal impact, no matter the scenario or concern."

I think it's a waste of energy, money, time to get all that changed just because they want to have 4 numbers now... What are they going to do with transfers that don't really come in with an equivalency? a 1990, 2990, 3990, 4990? Wow, what a difference that would make, plus, most of their numbers aren't used up at all... I haven't seen them get more than their share in the equivalency list to reach over 99 in each of those grade levels.  I'm only guessing they're closer to reaching that limit and preparing for the future (at least a few years from now).

[dfrecore]

Interesting, there is no need to be concerned or nervous.  As mentioned above email and faq, very little will change at all.  "We expect the effect on students to be minimal." "The FAQs page goes on to say that students should expect minimal impact, no matter the scenario or concern."

I think it's a waste of energy, money, time to get all that changed just because they want to have 4 numbers now... What are they going to do with transfers that don't really come in with an equivalency? a 1990, 2990, 3990, 4990? Wow, what a difference that would make, plus, most of their numbers aren't used up at all... I haven't seen them get more than their share in the equivalency list to reach over 99 in each of those grade levels.  I'm only guessing they're closer to reaching that limit and preparing for the future (at least a few years from now).

I'm guessing they're more specific than some schools, and give a specific course number to every course that comes in, and when different schools name things differently, they give different numbers.  Like, I know for certain that if you take 2 semesters of US History, they call it HIS-113 and HIS-114, but if you take 3 quarters, they call them 3 separate numbers (can't remember, but possibly HIS-110, 111 & 112, or 115, 116 & 117).  So once you start looking at every single course that everyone has ever transferred in, you can see the problem.  So, I'm thinking that they really are running out of numbers, at least in some sections, and it's easy to just add a 0 to everything now, and then you are set going forward.