(MSC News)--A Highland Community College faculty member has been appointed to a state council.

According to a news release, HCC criminal justice and psychology instructor Eric Ketchum has been appointed to appointed to the Kansas Board of Regents’ Transfer and Articulation Council (TAAC).

The release says the Council’s mission is to create structures and processes that facilitate student transfer and degree completion within Kansas higher education, while assuring quality and adherence to the agreed-upon learning outcomes of system-wide courses.

TAAC has overseen the approval of 66 courses for guaranteed transfer. A student who completes one of these courses at any Kansas public university, community college, or technical college can be certain that he or she can transfer it to any other Kansas public post-secondary institution offering the course.

The release says Ketchum’s involvement with TAAC will help the College maintain its position of being on the leading edge of providing course offerings that are readily transferable.