Beyond Transfer

Minnesota State's usage of a fictitious but evidence-based composite student -- with real-life challenges that prevent her from maintaining momentum -- helps them reframe conversations around equity and transfer to ensure they're building a student-centered process.

California Community Colleges are moving the transfer focus from institutions to students by honoring learning outside the classroom, reducing obstacles and flexibly and innovatively delivering education.

Collaboration between a university and a community college in south Florida shows what happens when institutions focus on the work that “needs to be done right now.”

Arizona State University's use of innovative technology in response to the changing needs of today’s students, 40 percent of whom begin at community colleges, is successfully building capacity to better serve transfers.

Now's the time to put dual enrollment to work better expanding college access and connecting underserved students to high-opportunity bachelor’s degree pathways.

Zoom meetings, online shopping, self-checkout machines, cloud-based technologies … You’ve probably experienced these during the pandemic more than ever. They...

For the 80 percent of students who begin at a community college with the intention of earning at least a bachelor’s degree, their chances of success are shaped from the moment they begin their educational journey.

While states have been increasingly focused on student mobility, the vast majority of their policies still focus on linear two-year to four-year transfer -- potentially missing the 43 percent of students who transfer multiple times and others who accrue learning and credits in circuitous ways.