Featured Sessions

 

• Opening Session & Keynote Video
  Fulfilling the Racial Equity Imperative in Transfer 

  • Estela M. Bensimon, University Professor Emerita and Founder, Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California 
     

• Award Winner Spotlight Video
  A conversation with this year's Transfer Champion-Catalyst and -Rising Star award winners 
   

• Ask the Experts-Hot Seat! Video 
  Three practitioners are coached in real-time by a panel of transfer experts. Topics include working with limited resources, managing unrealistic expectations, and gaining buy-in.

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• Plenary Panel Video 
  Creating Transfer-Inclusive Institutional Climates

  • Michael Baston, President, Rockland Community College 

  • Francesca I. Carpenter, Director of Equity Initiatives, Achieving the Dream

  • Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Director, Office of Community College Research and Leadership, University of Illinois  
     

• Coffee & Current Research Panel Video 

  • Darla Cooper, Executive Director, The Research and Planning Group for the California Community Colleges

  • John Fink, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center

  • Doug Shapiro, Executive Director, Research Center, National Student Clearinghouse

  • Xueli Wang, Professor in Educational Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• Plenary Lecture Video 
  The Transfer Experience: Creating A More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System 

  • John N. Gardner, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

  • Michael Rosenberg, Director of Planning, OPAIR, The Pennsylvania State University

  • Andrew Koch, President and Chief Operating Officer, Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education​

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• Action-Focused Plenary Workshop Video 
  Transforming Culture and Empowering Change Agents Through Transfer Advocate Training

  • Heather Adams, Senior Program Manager, Transfer Initiatives, Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program

  • TaMisha Greathouse, Associate Director, Student Involvement, Washington State University 

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Curricular Alignment or Degree Pathways

 

• Accelerating Progress for Equitable Transfer: Building Durable Cross-Institutional Will and Capacity for Effective Partnership Work  Slides 

• ALAS En Tu Camino: Clearing the Transfer Pathway Video  Handout  Slides   Video                                             

• Enhancing the Community College Transfer Pathway: Exploring Aspects of Transfer Receptivity at 4-Year Institutions in Engineering  Slides  Video

• Excess at the End: Investigating Degree Audits of Bachelor’s-Earning Transfer Students  Slides

• Forward March: How Ohio is Awarding More Academic Credit for Military Training, Experience, and Coursework  Handouts  Slides   

• Affordability, Motivation, and Early Momentum: Micro-Scholarships as a Pathway to Transfer  Slides 

• Keep it Watered and Watch it Grow: Managing Mature Partnerships between 2- and 4-year Institutions  Slides  Video  

• Going Beyond the Basics: Building Student Resiliency and Success Through Strong Transfer Programs  Slides  Video

• Interstate Passport®: A Learning Outcomes Solution to Transfer Credit Loss  Slides

• First-Generation Students:  Factors Predicting Intent to Transfer  Slides 

• Developing Systematic Independent College Transfer in New England: Early Lessons  Slides 

• The Game Changer: Changing the Conversations with Community College Transfer Student from WHERE? to WHY?  Slides

 

 

Diversity and Inclusion

 

• Transfer Stories and Strategies: How Five Student Groups Experience the Transfer Journey  Handouts

• Using a Multidisciplinary Framework to Understand the Benefits of a Transfer Student Mentoring Program  Slides  Video

• A Conversation with the 2021 National Transfer Student Ambassadors Video 

• With Change Comes Opportunity: How Ohio’s Proposed GE Revisions Are Incorporating Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion  Slides 

• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to College Completion: Perspectives from Inland Empire Transfer-Achieving Students  Slides

• Texas A&M Engineering Academies: An Innovative Education Pathway to an Engineering Degree  Slides 

• Coffee & Community for First-Generation Transfer Students: Culturally Responsive Space of Belonging 

• Transfer Peer Mentors (TPMs): Not So Secret Transfer Agents  Handouts Transcript   Video

• Building an Equitable, Transfer-Inclusive Educational Pathway for Latinx Students  Slides 

• COVID-19 Impacts on Student Transfer and How the Clearinghouse Can Help with Data-driven Decision to Impact Those Students  Slides 

• Best Practices for Serving Hispanic Transfer Students from a Community College to a Four-Year Institution  Slides  Video

• Fostering Equity in STEM Career Attainment: The Community of Transfer Researchers Program  Slides 

• Teaching for Inspiration: Approaches to Engaging Transfer Students in Gateway Courses  Handout  Slides

• Bloom’s Taxonomy as a DEI Learning Journey  Slides

• Evolving the Application to Expand Transfer Student Access and Equity  Slides ​

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Matriculation Trends and Issues

 

• Noting Our Differences: Transfers Report Diverse Experiences in Six Undergraduate Colleges at a Large University  Slides

• Investigating Transfer Shock: Concepts, Controversies, and Implications for Transfer Students  Slides  

• Overcoming Divergent Institutional Logics to Streamline Transfer: Perspectives from a Grant Collaboration  Slides 

• College Closure and the Impact of Forced Transfer  Slides

• It Takes a Village: The Impacts of COVID-19 and Transfer in the State of Ohio  Slides 

• Coping with COVID-19: Being Transfer Agents During a Pandemic  Slides  Video

• Transfer Advisory Council: How to Amplify your Voice  Slides 

• Engineering Community College Transfer: Examining the Influence of Pre-Transfer Programs on Transfer from Students’ Perspectives  Slides 

• Student Transfer on the Rise  Slides

 

 

Partnerships and Collaboration

 

• Bridging the Gap: Using Technology and Collaboration to Increase Course Articulation Rules  Slides 

• Symbiotic Operations: Creating Relationships Between Community Colleges and Universities at a Departmental Level  Handout  Slides 

• Power of Advisory Boards: Building Collaborative Guiding Coalitions with Multiple Entry Points into Post-secondary Education Programs  Slides 

• Degree Pathway Partnership: Addressing Transfer Barriers Through Collaboration and Advising  Slides 

• Transfer Student Outreach Alliance:  Building a Culture of  Transfer Student Engagement & Excellence  Slides 

• Taking Advising Out of the Office: Mutually Beneficial Programming and Partnerships  Handout  Slides   

• Always Better When We’re Together: Cultivating Partnerships Between 2- and 4-Year Institutions  Slides  Video

• Faculty Supports for Transfer Students: Planting Seeds for Success  Slides 

• Leveraging Multiple Products for Integrated and Comprehensive Transfer in a Multi-Campus System  Slides 

• Transfer Culture, Pathways & Student Supports: Promising Practices from Oregon  Slides 

• Started from the Bottom Now We’re Here: Building a Centralized Transfer Center on a Decentralized Campus  Slides  Video

• Transfer Success: Utilizing Regional Advisors to Enhance Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation in a Remote and Online World  Slides 

• Innovating with Design Thinking: How 7 Institutions Partnered to Reimagine Transfer Student Readiness and Success  Slides 

• Charting the Course: Uncovering Transfer Treasures through Cross-Campus and College Collaborations  Handout 

• Not-So-Secret Strategies for Serving Transfers: A University and Community College Pipeline for Student Success  Slides  Video

• Agents, Advocates, and Anomalies: The Aftermath of COVID-19

• New Trends and Issues in the Field of Student Transitions  Slides  

• Leveraging Technology to Recruit Transfer Students  Slides  

• Making It Work: Constructing Positive Partnerships  Slides

 

 

Transition Programs and Services

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• Agents of Change: How We Reached Transfer Students in the Midst of a Pandemic  Slides 

• Becoming Transfer Friendly: Changing the Culture of a Four-Year Institution Handout  Slides   Video

• (Dis)Connection and Stigma: Transfer Students’ Sense of Belonging  Slides 

• Celebrating National Transfer Student Week: Lessons Learned for Transfer Student Engagement  Handouts  Slides                    

• Transfer Student Success Model  Slides 

• TEx: Transfer Experience Conference  Slides 

• Mentoring Builds Sense of Belonging--Even When It's Remote  Slides 

• Fall 2020 Transfer Students and Their Expected Academic Difficulties: Implications for Orientation, Advising, and Academic Success  Slides

• Personal Librarians: The Not-So-Secret Agent of Transfer Student Success  Resources  Slides  

• Busting and Bridging Barriers to Transfer Student Success  Slides 

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