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Tackling Transfer

September 2015–December 2017

CCRC is partnering with Public Agenda and the Aspen Institute to promote the widespread adoption of high-impact strategies for improving degree completion among students who start in community colleges seeking bachelor’s degrees.

The project has the following goals:

  1. to build urgency for improving transfer outcomes using evidence to make the policy and business case;
  2. to publish and disseminate evidence-based tools for improving practice; and
  3. to implement a multiyear plan to change practice and policy in the field.

The main products are a playbook, a self-assessment tool, a leadership curriculum module, a communications plan, and a state and sectoral engagement plan.

In partnership with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the John N. Gardner Institute, and Achieving the Dream, our organizations are designing workshops for two- and four-year institutional practitioners on improving transfer practices. We are collaborating with AASCU and Achieving the Dream as well as state agencies or associations in selected states to offer these workshops.

This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Publications

June 2018

Strengthening Transfer Paths to a Bachelor’s Degree: Identifying Effective Two-Year to Four-Year College Partnerships

February 2018

Using Data Mining to Explore Why Community College Transfer Students Earn Bachelor’s Degrees With Excess Credits

December 2017

Tackling Transfer: A Guide to Convening Community Colleges and Universities to Improve Transfer Student Outcomes

December 2017

How to Measure Community College Effectiveness in Serving Transfer Students

October 2017

Takes Two to Tango: Essential Practices of Highly Effective Transfer Partnerships

May 2016

The Transfer Playbook: Essential Practices for Two- and Four-Year Colleges

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Presentations

February 2018
February 08, 2018

Takes Two to Tango: Applying Insights From Highly Effective Transfer Partnerships

January 2018
January 19, 2018

What We Know About Transfer Outcomes and How Colleges Can Improve Them

December 2017
December 05, 2017

What We Know About Transfer Outcomes and How Colleges Can Improve Them

May 2017
May 31, 2017

Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

April 2017
April 14, 2017

Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

April 2017
April 12, 2017

Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

April 2017
April 04, 2017

​​Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

February 2017
February 22, 2017

Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

February 2017
February 02, 2017

New Evidence: Five Critical, Understudied Barriers to Transfer Success

February 2017
February 02, 2017

Unpacking the Transfer Playbook: How Colleges Can Improve Transfer Outcomes

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Project Lead

October 2018
October 03, 2018

Davis Jenkins

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