Beyond Transfer

Producing better transfer outcomes requires community college leaders to better understand how transfer supports are currently embedded in the student experience.

Interviews with enrollment managers and CFOs reveal insights: “Most of the accountability metrics are focused on first-years, and so [transfers] are kind of hidden. They come and go without much impact.”

Higher education leaders need to understand the barriers and enablers of the transfer student experience, then do the work to create an environment aimed at giving credit where credit is due.

San Antonio College has built a comprehensive transfer system that gets and keeps students on track with clear pathways to a bachelor’s degree and strong connections with four-year institutions.

Six ways stakeholders should prepare to tackle their transfer policy push.

With the support of peer mentors and transfer advisers, the Virginia Pathways Program helps align curriculum and credits between two- and four-year campuses.

Proposals for massive boosts in federal aid for students won't address an underlying problem: most financial aid money isn't mobile, and transfer students struggle to qualify for and find it.

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.