Mark Souder: “I yield myself 2 minutes. Today I am offering an amendment with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) that will…”

“I yield myself 2 minutes. Today I am offering an amendment with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) that will ensure students have greater access to information about a university's transfer-of-credit policies without placing new burdensome mandates on the institutions themselves. I would like to thank the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, Chairman McKeon, for working with me and Mr. Bishop over the last day on a compromise that I believe accomplishes our shared goal of greater transparency with regard to an institution's transfer of credit policies. If a student plans on transferring from a community college to a 4-year institution or from a proprietary school to a community college, they should know before they apply which of their credits will transfer. The Souder-Bishop amendment will strengthen language in the underlying bill to ensure that all institutions of higher education publicly disclosed whether or not they deny credits based on the accreditation of the institution where the credits were earned. We do not mandate the kind of policy a school must have; we just require greater transparency. On principle, I believe it is not the role of the Federal Government to dictate what kind of transfer or credit policy an institution must have.…”