Friday Replay: No Easy Answers
Three Show Series on "The Beyond Transfer" White Paper Challenges #HigherEd Pros to Rethink The Way Institutions Serve Students Who Seek Transfer
The Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) has issued a series of White Papers–referred to as the “No Easy Answers” series. The PAB is a group of 12 expert practitioners who are laser focused on equity and understand how complex transfer and credit mobility are. The series highlights several challenges to the Transfer process and digs deep into layers of questionable business practices that have become standard in higher education. This 3-Part pod series brings together members of the PAB who are writers and contributors to the white papers, and we unpack their findings and recommendations.
Show 1: Campus Approach to Transfers: A Bad Business Model
In the first show, we start by looking at the flaws of transfer enrollment strategy. The standard practice of transfer enrollment has structural issues that are hampering completion rates of students who are seeking to benefit from attaining a bachelor's degree. From how destination campuses view transfer credits to the financial business modeling, the overall business and process of transfer student recruitment and enrollment needs a fix. We are joined by co-authors: Lexa Logue, Shanna, Jaggars and Marty Alvarado.
Show 2: Is it time for Accreditors to Care about Transfers?
Accreditors have been flying under the radar, keeping their role within the HigherEd landscape to the work of maintaining and ensuring a degree of quality. Accreditors have great influence in institutional strategy and priorities. Transfer student degree attainment isn’t an essential aspect of accreditation, and the researchers at Beyond Transfer believe that without them, the needle on a transfer culture shift won’t happen.
We are joined by co-authors: Ron Anderson and Maria Hesse, authors of the white paper.
Show 3: The Financial & Time to Completion Disadvantage Felt by Transfer Students
In our final episode in this 3-Part series, we are going to focus on the students and how the promise of transfer doesn’t line up with reality. With students today moving in and out of work and learning experiences at a higher rate, it is imperative that the transfer process be one that supports student outcomes. Co-authors, Shanna Jaggars and Marty Alvarado, return to put a lens on the student experience and recommendations to improve it.
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