(a) Coordinating Board staff will post online an annual list of low-producing degree programs.     
      (b) The Board will alert an institution's governing board each year when a degree program has not met the minimum standards for three consecutive years.     
      (c) Completers of career technical certificate programs that are reported under the same CIP code as an existing applied associate's degree program will be counted as completers of the corresponding applied associate's degree program for purposes of determining low-producing status.     
      (d) Academic associate degree programs are not considered to be low producing if they lead to transfer into four-year programs.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §4.288 adopted to be effective May 26, 2010, 35 TexReg 4148; amended to be effective May 25, 2015, 40 TexReg 2755