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
News Regarding Higher Ed
Stats With Corequisite Remediation Increases Degrees & Earnings
Dan Douglas’s, Mari-Watanabe-Rose’s, and my new brief (and Alison Kothe’s blog post) shows introductory statistics with corequisite remediation increases associate’s & bachelor’s degrees & earnings.
Structural Racism in Higher Ed & How to Decrease It
Inside Higher Ed opinion piece, using traditional remediation and transfer as examples: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/08/05/how-remediation-and-transfer-policies-increase-structural-racism-higher-ed-opinion
Transfer Pipeline Leaks
Please see Transfer Opportunity Project’s (TOP’s) brief on two leakage points in the vertical (associate’s to bachelor’s) transfer pipeline: lack of application & transfer melt (accepted but do not enroll). https://bit.ly/3yl7JNW http://bit.ly/30mwM3i pic.twitter.com/jCoOKIEgGM
Logue quoted in Inside Higher Ed concerning college costs
Alexandra Logue was quoted extensively in an Inside Higher Ed article concerning the (often insurmountable) costs in addition to tuition for community college students.
New publication on the need to remove the remedial conceptual framework
Who needs remediation? No one. Academe should get rid of remediation and the conceptual framework that surrounds it. New article in Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/36JiD4o
Expansion of Articulation of Credit Transfer (ACT) Project to 7 CUNY Colleges
It gives me great pleasure to announce the expansion of the Articulation of Credit Transfer (ACT) project, with funding from the Petrie Foundation added to existing funding from the Heckscher Foundation. Now, led by Ithaka S+R (Martin Kurzweil) and The City University of New York, we are helping 7 CUNY colleges facilitate the transfer of credits when students move from one CUNY college to another, including by expanding use of Transfer Explorer, our online tool that lets anyone see how credits will transfer among CUNY colleges. For more information see: https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/ithaka-sr-to-expand-transfer-improvement-efforts-with-cuny/
New Online Tool Shows How CUNY Courses Transfer
Announcing CUNY’s TRANSFER EXPLORER (https://bit.ly/2AtqzcY ), AKA TREX or T-Rex. This online tool, funded by the Heckscher Foundation and created with Ithaka S+R, can show anyone how any CUNY course transfers from one CUNY college to another (no login needed). We are still refining it, but please check it out!
Survey on Transfer for ALL CUNY Students
This survey has closed. We are extremely grateful to the great many (approximately 30,000!) students who participated in this survey, and to the great many people who helped. We have begun the long process of confirming that everyone on the lists of students who were invited to respond, as well as everyone on the lists of students who responded, satisfied the survey’s respondent eligibility criteria. When that process is complete, we will then begin analyzing the data. Thank you again to everyone who helped us get to this point!
CUNY Publishes Article About Math Remediation Research
CUNY’s online research magazine, SUM, has published an article about my research with Dan Douglas and Mari Watanabe-Rose showing that student success is increased with corequisite as opposed to traditional math remediation: http://bit.ly/2NE3YyG