Call for proposals: Share your transfer expertise at the 2026 Transfer Week Webinar Series

CollegeSource invites transfer professionals to submit proposals for the 9th annual Transfer Week Webinar Series, a free virtual event celebrating National Transfer Student Week, October 19–23, 2026

Do you have a strategy, success story, research finding, or practical lesson that others in the transfer field could benefit from? The 2026 Transfer Week Webinar Series is an opportunity to share it with colleagues working to improve transfer student success.

CollegeSource launched the Transfer Week Webinar Series to give transfer professionals a dedicated space to share what they were seeing, trying, and learning. Nine years later, the series continues to draw strong interest, with thousands joining live sessions to learn from peers and ask questions. Those conversations also helped inspire Let’s Talk Transfer, a discussion series that keeps transfer-related conversations going throughout the year.

This year, the series will also include a new community forum platform where participants can ask follow-up questions, continue conversations from live sessions, and connect around transfer topics before, during, and after National Transfer Student Week. More details will be shared in the coming months.

If you’re considering submitting but would like a sense of past topics and session formats, previous Transfer Week presentations are available here: 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018

What we’re looking for

We welcome proposals from professionals who work directly or indirectly with transfer students, credit mobility, policy, technology, student success, research, and related areas. The topics below are intended to spark ideas, not define the full scope of possible submissions.

• Campus, system, or statewide transfer initiatives, partnerships, and lessons learned
• Transfer credit evaluation, articulation, degree applicability, pathway clarity, and credit mobility
• Credit for prior learning (CPL), military learning, industry certifications, workplace learning, and other validated learning experiences
• Student mobility patterns, including reverse transfer, vertical transfer, lateral transfer, dual enrollment-to-degree pathways, and noncredit-to-credit pathways
• Legislation, regulations, mandates, and policy developments affecting transfer, articulation, reporting, or institutional practice
• Technology, data, automation, artificial intelligence, student-facing tools, and workflow improvements that support transfer and student success
• Equity-minded practices that reduce credit loss, excess credits, time to degree, unnecessary costs, and other barriers to completion
• Advising, onboarding, belonging, communication, persistence, and other student support strategies for transfer students
• Workforce alignment, microcredentials, skills-based learning records, and emerging models of learning mobility

Ways to participate

CollegeSource hosts and supports the event, but the program itself is shaped by the ideas and expertise that volunteers bring forward. Contributors may present individually, co-present with colleagues or partners, or be considered for a panel discussion. Those interested in panels may indicate topic areas of interest so we can identify strong fits across the program.

Why participate?

There are many benefits to being a presenter or panelist for this annual series, including the ability to:

• Share practical strategies and lessons learned that can help improve transfer outcomes
• Bring visibility to work happening at your institution, organization, system, or partnership
• Help shape the timely topics featured during National Transfer Student Week
• Reach an engaged national audience, with past series drawing thousands of registrants and strong live attendance across the week
• Connect with peers through live sessions and the new online community

Submission details

To be considered, please complete the CollegeSource Transfer Week Webinar Series submission form by Friday, August 21. This form allows you to propose a session, indicate interest in co-presenting, or be considered for a panel.

We hope you’ll share your perspective and help shape a Transfer Week program that reflects the questions, challenges, and opportunities facing the people championing transfer student success today.