2022 Transfer Week Webinar Series with CollegeSource

Preparing students for transfer to bachelor’s degree programs is a key component of community colleges’ core mission. Yet the transfer process often fails to serve students. While most students who begin community colleges intend to get a bachelor’s, few actually do. Aspen supports leaders of community colleges and four-year institutions in improving transfer student outcomes through qualitative and quantitative research, convenings, and curricular resources. One example is the Transfer Intensive, a one-year initiative consisting of monthly sessions designed to support partnerships between community colleges and AASCU members in advancing the practices and policies associated with improved, more equitable transfer student success.

In this presentation, Heather Adams, Senior Program Manager of the College Excellence Program at Aspen, will provide an overview of the project and update on the work and progress of participating institutions.

This presentation will focus on employing a collaborative approach to a broad array of transfer needs. We will present data that illustrate the successes (and challenges) we face and our efforts to enhance the logical relationships of our of programs and to strengthen outcomes for all concerned — statewide, systemwide and individual institutions serving transfer students.

Topics will include statewide transfer, applicability, and degree completion; dual credit, equity, partnerships, and bridges to the workforce; strengthening and broadening access to education, pathway agreements, and guaranteed admissions.

uAchieve is an online degree audit system that allows students and advisors to track progress toward degree completion while highlighting the remaining courses and requirements needed to graduate. With Transfer Articulation (TA) in uAchieve, you can store course or program-specific equivalencies as well as statewide transfer rules and agreements. Identify Home (Target) or Transfer (source) courses, treat Transfer courses differently than Home courses in an audit report, translate grades and credit from Transfer-to-Home values, and more. Join us to see uAchieve in action!