Nothing I've seen in the policy is drastically different from any of the other universities at which I've worked in this field.
Again - it's not the actual written policy, but the application of that policy to real life students in real transfer situations.
You have a number of real life people on this very board who have gone through this process at CU, and had credits not transfer.
Here's the crazy thing: I didn't end up getting my degree from CU. Why? Because another school accepted every single credit I'd earned at both CU and my prior school - no questions, no "let's look at the syllabus and see if it's almost exactly what we offer otherwise we're not going to accept it" bull**** like CU pulled. There were two classes where I had to pull out the school catalog for one or two class descriptions, and... that was it. No syllabus comparisons, no appeals to kangaroo bureaucrats, just - "yep, that works, thanks."
Both schools had essentially the same written policy.
The way it was interpreted was drastically different.
So again - this is something that leadership could change. Instead of little peons questioning and appealing and begging and pleading and getting basically nowhere, the Chancellor could tell them to start finding reasons to accept transfer credits instead of finding reasons to deny them.
Right now, they find reasons to deny.
They make more tuition money that way. They get to act like they're academically superior to all these inferior schools. They get to keep their classes full of white rich kids who can afford to take an extra year to finish college. They get to keep out those football kids who might need to skip a few classes for out of town games.
If PD had any balls or any leadership he could reverse that in a few months. Demand that instead of finding reasons to deny transfer credit, that they start finding reasons to accept it.
It would cost them some tuition money as kids wouldn't need to retake classes where they had already covered 90% of the material. It would mean that they would have to admit that the grad students at <insert state school here> are just as capable of teaching <insert freshmen class here> as the grad students at CU. It would mean that they might end up with a few more less affluent and less white kids. Oh - and it would help the football team too.
But yeah. Go ahead and stick to the written policy and pretend that it can't be interpreted and used in different ways.