Re-Envisioning Transfer

AACRAO is determined to re-envision institutional practices to better serve transfer students. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center revealed that nearly 40% of students enrolled in higher education transfer annually. The sheer volume warrants attention to smooth the process, which nationally, is inconsistent. And finally, the continuing pandemic has further widened structural and foundational gaps through which learners facing multiple intersectional inequities fall.

AACRAO's participation in these discussions spans decades and includes providing guidance on transfer student practice and policy for domestic and international students. As a leader in the academic and enrollment services space, our research highlights transfer policy gaps and spotlights successful practices that drive both institutional and learner success. Learn more about AACRAO Transfer and Articulation resources.

This year, we are focused especially on the practices surrounding transfer. In addition to recurring research on transfer practice, AACRAO recently joined several related national research initiatives. Further, understanding transfer and articulation is one of our professional proficiencies.

We believe now is the time to develop the set of best practices that will inform requirements for an institutional “transfer student success” designation.

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February | Transfer Work Group

Purpose

To identify a list of transfer related policies and practices that indicate an institution is effectively focused on transfer student success.

Charge

This work group will develop a preliminary proposal on what policies and practices need to be in place to support an institution being designated as an institution with best practices for transfer student success

The Work Group

March 29 - April 1 | AACRAO Annual Meeting

REIMAGINE THE PATH FORWARD

Join a world-wide, higher education network at #AACRAO2021 as it comes together to explore different conversations than years past. The change we saw coming is here. We have to be comprehensive in our approach. We have to do the work of reimagining systems.

AACRAO is determined to re-envision institutional practices to better serve transfer students. Transfer sessions highlighted present tools to help shape the future of transfer.

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July | Transfer Practice Summit

Transfer-related policies and practices identified by the Work Group that indicate an institution is effectively focused on transfer student success drive the agenda for our Transfer Practice Summit in July. The are also the focus of a whitepaper and the launch of our institutional designation.

Articles, Coffee Breaks, webinars and blog posts leading up to the Summit will elevate the transfer conversation amongst our members and partners. This conversation provides opportunities to explore questions and discuss solutions to the myriad of interconnected issues and perspectives that impact the transfer student experience.

Post-summit, we will share our final paper and implement a toolkit for institutions to embed these research-based practices for the betterment of their transfer students.

Fall 2021 | Technology Summit

The Technology Summit focuses on the technology of transfer. Now is the time to accelerate change. AACRAO is determined to remove transfer barriers and speed processes that support student decision-making and advising by supporting institutions in migrating to digital document pathways.

The pandemic forced the majority of the education sector into a remote workforce model, disrupting the largely analog set of processes that surround student transfer. Digital record portability and interoperability has always been a priority in the name of student success, but we find now that it is also a key point of business continuity and institutional success.

Institutions who engage with the digital record ecosphere will find themselves a part of the global movement, led by our close partners in the Groningen Declaration Network (GDN), which envisions that citizens worldwide should be able to electronically consult and share their authentic educational data with whomever they want, whenever they want, wherever they are.

As a founding GDN member and as a leader of the U.S. digital transfer conversation with the inception of SPEEDE in the 1970s, AACRAO is eager to help pave the digital highway for US higher education to engage.