New Paper On Faculty’s Views on Transfer
Our new paper reports the views on transfer of almost 4,000 faculty, helping us understand why it can be difficult for institutions to collaborate on transfer. https://bit.ly/3LloB2x
News Regarding Higher Ed
Where Are Credits Transferring From?
See our new column in InsideHigherEd showing how much college student transfer is across state lines: http://bit.ly/492GnkX . One picture is worth a thousand words.
New Paper Tracks Transfer Credit Applicability
Our new paper in AERA Open is the 1st published research to track credits’ degree-requirement applicability thru & past the moment of transfer (https://bit.ly/3Vmrlyq). This paper contains much info. about the many things that can happen to credits between the 1st college course & college graduation, & clarifies the terminology used for different sorts of credits.
Evidence Transfer Explorer Facilitates Credit Transfer
See our new “Beyond Transfer” blog post in Inside Higher Ed for a preview of our data supporting hypothesis that using CUNY’s Transfer Explorer (T-Rex, the no-login website that shows how all CUNY courses transfer; https://explorer.cuny.edu/) facilitates credit transfer (https://bit.ly/4mA1DT4). The Transfer Explorer Beta national version is at https://transferexplorer.org/.
Why Articulation Agreements Aren’t at the End of the Rainbow
Please see my newest Inside Higher Ed “Beyond Transfer” blog post about articulation agreements and alternative ways to facilitate credit transfer.
Publication of Quantitative Analysis of Vertical Transfer Pipeline
This is the first detailed quantitative analysis of vertical transfer pipeline progress in a large cohort (17,455 students), including quantification of Transfer Melt & Transfer Shock.
Publication of Corequisite Remediation Randomized Controlled Trial 7-Yr Follow-Up
The latest in our series of publications on our randomized controlled trial of corequisite remediation with statistics has been published in Educational Researcher, with authors Dan Douglas, myself, and Mari Watanabe-Rose. This article reports 7-year follow-up outcomes, including significantly greater associate’s and bachelor’s graduation rates and wages for the corequisite group.
Presentation in Panel at Grantmakers for Education 2022 Annual Conference
Participation in panel titled “Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: An Exploration of Articulation of Credit Transfer,” with Cass Conrad and Desiree Vazquez Barlatt of the Petrie Foundation and Martin Kurzweil of Ithaka S+R.
Article published in JCSR:RTP on our survey on transfer of over 31,000 CUNY students
The results of our survey on transfer of over 31,000 CUNY students have been published in the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice.
New Ways to Measure/Reduce Lost Transfer Credits
Ithaka S+R and CUNY’s collaboration in the Articulation of Credit Transfer project, supported by the Heckscher & Petrie Foundations, is yielding results: https://bit.ly/3L4aWrZ