Are You Transfer Friendly?
Summit Stage Recording
About the Speakers
The Story
The Why
- Adult students
- Continuing ed and vocational and career education
- Highschool/AP/RunningStart
- Summer swirl, Covid swirl
- Online courses
- Economic pressures and consumer mindset
- Community college and for-profit alternatives
- Blockchain/portable student record
- Micro-credentials
- Military
What's Next
Why Should YOU Focus on Transfer Student Success (student mobility)?
- It’s the right thing to do for students
- It’s the mission of the institution
- State funding is tied to success rates
- It’s the right thing to do for your own competitive advantage, enrollment sustainability
- Failing to serve students is very expensive (attrition, under-enrollment, underemployment, student loan losses)
- Administrative cost savings https://smartpandatools.com/index.php/transcipt-cost-map/
- Successful transfer mobility has many related benefits (advising, course selection, financial aid, completions, affinity, and alumni)
- Enrollment numbers/revenue often depend on success in transfer at some institutions
- Technology makes a seamless experience more possible than ever, i.e. progress does not need to be expensive or difficult
Call to Action
What Does a Solution Look Like?
- Transfer agreements with guarantees of no credit loss
- Cover transfer portability as well as applicability to degree
- Articulations agreements should move to matriculation agreements
- Faculty partnerships are important here
- Student record will be fully portable and digital to seamlessly move between schools
- Transfer equivalencies, articulation agreements will be fully predictable and transparent
- Automate the mainstream, and leave the rest for value-added manual review at the margins
- SIS agnostic
- Self-service availability to student at every step in their journey
- Degree applicability will be predictable and transparent