Featured Sessions

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Virtual Conference​

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Opening Keynote

How do we do equity?

• Christine Ortiz Guzman, Founder & CEO, Equity Meets Design

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Student Plenary Panel  Video

Amplifying Student Voices: Learning from Their Experiences to Improve Our Advocacy

 Panelists:

• Atziri C. Regalado Juarez, University of Utah

• Jolynna Dang, University of California, Irvine

• Juan "Oso" Bran-Gudiel, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Emily Armlin, Union College

Moderators: 

• Susie Morales, Program Manager-Leland Scholars, Stanford University

• Brandi Stacey, Project-Manager-Alabama Transfers, University of Alabama 

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Practitioner Plenary Panel  

Courageous Conversations: Exploring the Impact of Our Intersecting Identities

Moderator:

• Shannon Ingram, Director-Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Maryland Institute College of Art

Panelists:

• Rommel Jose Aguilar Cardenas, Assistant Director-First-Gen+ Center, George Mason University

• Yannick Ladson, Director-Mental Health and Wellness Center, Mercer County Community College

• Jennifer Brown, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Windward Community College

MC: 

• Kerin Hilker-Balkissoon, Director of Educational and Career Pathways, George Mason University

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Action-Focused Workshop 

The 7 Problems with Problems: Using Equitable Problem Definition to Understand the Problems We Seek to Solve

• Christine Ortiz Guzman, Founder & CEO, Equity Meets Design

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Closing Plenary  

Giving Credit Where It's Due: Serving the Nontraditional Transfer

• Gregory Washington, President, George Mason University

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Conference Closing  

Reflect. Get Set. Connect: Conference Takeaways and Closing Remarks

• Sandra Dika, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

• Rachel Fulton, Wright Path Program Manager, Wright State University

• Anthea Henderson, Lead Academic Advocate, University of South Florida

• Janet Marling, Executive Director, NISTS

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Portland Conference

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Opening Keynote  

Identity-Conscious Connections: Shaping Compassionate Communities for Transfer Students

• Liza Talusan, Author and Associate Instructor, UMass Boston

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Action-Focused Workshop  

Equity Centered Community Design

• Antionette Carroll, Founder & CEO, Creative Reaction Lab

   

 

Student Plenary Panel  Video

Amplifying Student Voices: Learning from Their Experiences to Improve Our Advocacy

Panelists:

• Atziri C. Regalado Juarez, University of Utah

• Jolynna Dang, University of California, Irvine

• Juan "Oso" Bran-Gudiel, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Emily Armlin, Union College

Moderators: 

• Susie Morales, Program Manager-Leland Scholars, Stanford University

• Brandi Stacey, Project-Manager-Alabama Transfers, University of Alabama

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Conference Closing  

Reflect. Get Set. Connect: Conference Takeaways and Closing Remarks

• Sandra Dika, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

• Rachel Fulton, Wright Path Program Manager, Wright State University

• Anthea Henderson, Lead Academic Advocate, University of South Florida

• Janet Marling, Executive Director, NISTS

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Concurrent, On-Demand, and Poster Sessions

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Credits and Degree Pathways

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• The True-Life Story of Transfer Students' Credits: The Bad and the Good  Slides

• Revamping a Statewide Articulation System in the Deep South  Slides

• Beyond Transfer Credit: Credit for Prior Learning Foundations  Slides  Video

• Change Agent: Secrets to Designing Equitable Pathways While Guiding Institutional Culture, Policy, and Practices  Slides

• Using Design Thinking Principles to Develop Transfer Pipeline Partnerships  Slides  Video

• Connecting Faculty to Transfer Student Success: Managing a Transfer Pathway Development Process  Slides  Video  Handout

• Navigating and Exploring Options Through Transfer Guides  Slides

• Surveying Transfer Students in British Columbia, Canada: Why They Move and with What Success?  Slides

• Students, Faculty, and Staff Views on Transfer: Text Analysis of 34 Focus Groups and 35,000 Surveys  Slides

• Boosting Equitable Transfer Outcomes: Strategies for Reverse and Vertical Transfer  Slides

• Identifying Factors Impacting Upward Transfer Among African American/Black Community College Students  Slides

• Building Transfer Pathways from Community Colleges to Private Liberal Arts Institutions  Slides

• We've Got Lots in Common: Innovative Strategies for Making the Most of Common Course Numbers  Slides  Handout

• Making Transfer a Priority: Articulation Supports and Programming  Slides

• Introducing a Statewide Student-Centered Transfer Portal  Slides

• Developing a Theory of Curricular Complexity for Transfer Students: Establishing Content and Construct Validity  Slides

• Using A University-Wide Initiative to Fuel Transfer Reforms: Transfer Explorer At CUNY  Slides

• Online Education Vendors and ACE Recommendations: Educating a System for Greater Student Credit Attainment  Slides

• Using AI to Streamline Transfer Credit Assessment: PathwAI  Slides

• Inter-institutional Curriculum Alignment of Gateway Courses: Engaging Faculty in Transfer Student Success  Slides  Handout

• It Takes a Village to Recruit a Transfer Student  Slides

• A Closer Look: Transfer Credit Degree Applicability and How It Informs Policy  Slides

• Sponsored Session Education and Career Compass:  Guiding Students as They Explore and Navigate Their Futures  Slides

• Educational Partner Creating Equitable Pathways: Using Improvement Science to Guide Curricular Redesign for Transfer Students  Video  

• Planning Transfer Student Success: CSU Bakersfield’s Program Pathways Mapper (PPM)  Slides

• Changing the Landscape of Credit Mobility: Exploring Accomplishments and Pain Points Leading to National Impact  Slides

• Partnerships for Success: California Community Colleges & HBCUs  Slides

• Sponsored Session Connections Between Prior Learning and Purdue University Global Programs  Slides

• Sponsored Session The Key to Promoting Academic Mobility? Tame the Transcript  

• Sponsored Session Recruiting Transfer Students in a Changing Enrollment Landscape  Slides

• Sponsored Session Inspire Equivalency Confidence Using TES + Transferology  Slides

Diversity and Inclusion

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• Accreditation & Transfer Student Success: Connecting the Dots between Equity, Quality, and Outcomes  Video  Handouts

• Exploring Equity and Transfer Student Receptive Ecosystems: A Case Study from North Carolina  

• Not a Monolith: Roundtable Discussions of our Transfer Students’ Intersecting Identities  

• Making Connections: Validating the LGBTQIA+ Experience in the Transfer Process  Slides

• Aligning Mission Driven Enrollment Management Plans and Transfer Partnership Outcomes with Institutional DEI Goals  

• Educational Partner Equity-Driven Practices for Transfer Student Success: Evidence from the National Study of Transfer Student Initiatives  Slides

• Creating Your Educational History Map  

Leadership and Strategic Planning

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• For Students by Students: The Impact of Student Leadership on Creating and Running Our Transfer Centers  Slides 

• Creating a Strategic Plan for the Transfer Student Experience  Slides  Video

• Faculty Views about Student Transfer from Community to Bachelor’s-Granting Colleges  Slides  Video

• Ethical Transfer Practices: Competing Schools Shared Mission  Slides

• Lessons Learned: Interstate Passport after Five Years of Implementation  Slides

• Difficult Connections: Getting Decision-Makers Onboard for Transfer Success  Slides

• Get Unstuck and SOAR into Your Next Transfer Project  Slides

• Building TEAMS: Partnering to Impact Transfer Excellence, Achievement, Mindset, and Success  Slides  Handout

• Getting on the Same Page: Creating a Collaborative Committee to Improve Transfer Student Onboarding  Slides  Video  Handouts

• Gaining Access to and Collecting Post-Secondary Transfer Data When It Is Not Publicly Available  Slides

• Transfer “Leader”-ologist: Forecasting with Nuanced Narratives for Responsive Pre-Transfer Advising  Slides  Video

• Transferability and a Shorter Path to Graduation through Enrollment and Academic Collaboration  Slides

• Understanding the Impact of Two-Year Graduation Timelines on Transfer Student Engagement  

• Sponsored Session Tau Sigma: Partnering with Higher Ed to Recognize, Encourage, and Empower Transfer Students  Slides

• Sponsored Session Holistic Credit Mobility: An Innovative Framework to Foster Credit and Learning Mobility  Slides  Handout

• Sponsored Session  Advancing Students and Their Learning: Transfer Policy Standards for Equitable Attainment  

• Navigating the Social Bases of Power to Influence Change  Handout  

• Educational Partner The Transfer Experience: Creating A More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System  

Matriculation Trends and Issues

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• Transfer Things: Starring CTE Pathways and Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)  Slides 

• Transfer Efficacy and Goal Orientation Among Potential Transfer Students: An Exploratory Study  Video

• Examining the Transfer Choice Process: Strategies to Help Students Think about Transfer Fit  

• Integrating Data to Create Comprehensive Student Records Across a Large-Scale Transfer Partnership  

• Advantages of Humanities Transfer Students: Differences in GPA, Graduation, and Graduate Study  

• Expanding Health & IT Bachelor’s Degree Capacity Through Transfer Pathways  Slides  

• Now What? A Transfer Re-Set for Post Pandemic America  

• Former High-Achieving, Transfer-Intending Community College Students Explain Their Reason for Not Transferring  

• Students' Experiences Applying to Transfer Credits  Poster 

• Sponsored Session Nudging Transfer Students to Application Success: Findings from Common App Pilot Initiatives  Slides

• Educational Partner Building Bridges between Academic Advisors and Faculty: Inspiring a Culture of Excellence in Faculty Advising  Slides

• Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors  Slides  Video

 

Partnerships and Collaboration

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• Effective Coalitions in Redesigning Teacher Education  Slides

• The Power of Storytelling: How a Transfer Art Contest and Gallery Focused on Resilience Builds Belonging Across Campus  Slides  Video

• Enhancing the Transfer Process: Partnerships Between Community Colleges and Universities Through a Dual Transfer Advisor  Slides

• Faculty GAINs: Faculty Learning Communities to Promote STEM Transfer Student Success  Poster

• Structuring STEM Transfer Partnership Success  Slides

• Transfer Appreciation Day: Connecting an Idea to Serve your Transfer Culture  Poster

• Stay Local, Save Money: An Innovative Engineering Education Pathway  Poster

• Creating a Consortium to Support Transfer Student Success  Slides  Handout

• The Power of Intention: Designing an Inclusive and Thriving Community College Transfer Center  Slides  Video  Handouts

• Questions & Community: Enhancing Transfer Student Programs to Meet Transfer Students Where They Are  Poster

• “May the Fourth” Be with You: Grad School Edition Connecting Transfers with Graduate Students Across Institutions  

• Starting With the End in Mind: Communicating with Incoming Transfers  Slides  Video  Handouts

• Creating Greater College Access and a Four-Year Experience Through Community College Partnerships  Slides  Video

• STEM Transfer Success: Building Community Through Cross-Institutional Recruitment Initiatives  Slides

• Evolution of Transfer Centers: A Future-Thinking Approach to Building Transfer Centers and Support Services  Slides

• Opening the Door to Transfer at Highly Selective Private Institutions  Slides

• Sponsored Session How Lower Columbia College's University Center Promotes 2-year to 4-year Transfer  

 

Special Populations

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• Beyond Belonging: Creating Spaces for First-Generation Transfer Students to Flourish  Slides  Video  Handout

• Factors Influencing Science Transfer Student Participation in Undergraduate Research  Poster

Transition Programs and Supports

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• Low-Cost, High-Impact Practices for STEM Transfer Success: Practical Solutions for All  

• Assessing the Impact of a Transfer Learning Community on Social Integration and Academic Success  Poster

• A Success Resource for Transfer Students  Slides

• Advising Students Before They’re Your Student: The Advantage of Prospective Advising  Slides

• Educational Partner Transforming Your Institutional Strategy Toward a New Era of Student Success  

• Connecting the Pipeline: Exploring Transfer Students’ Aspirations for Graduate School  

• Retaining Transfer Students: Macro and Micro Approaches  Slides

• Creating Connections Across Campus: Facilitating the Transfer Student Life Cycle  Slides

• Transfer Tips for Success: A Transfer Student Video Series  Slides

• Reverse Transfer: Students Thoughts and Observation  Poster

• Bridging The Gap: Supporting Transfer Students from Admitted to Orientation  Slides  Video

• Transfer Intersectionality: A Student-Centered Approach to Transfer Transition Support  Slides

• Enhancing a Transfer Student's On-Campus Experience  Slides

• For Transfers, By Transfers: Co-Creating Student-Led Programming  Slides

• Student Feedback on the Transfer Experience Prior to and Following the COVID19 Pandemic  Slides

• Transfer Transition: How 1-Credit Courses can be Utilized to Engage with First-Year Transfer Students  Slides  Video  Handout 

• Transfer Student Expectations for Affordable Course Materials: A Focus Group Study  Poster

• Sponsored Session Build a Better Transfer Strategy: Peer Mentors to Increase Resource Utilization & Belonging  Slides

• Defying Expectations: A Discussion of Transfer Students Who Outperformed Direct-Entry Students  Poster

• Developing a Resource-Inclusive Environment with Classroom Assignments for Cohort Transfer Students  Poster

• Portraits of Success: Transfer Student Mentoring  Slides  Video

• Transfer Career Capital: The Secret Sauce to Equitable Career Outcomes for Students Who Transfer  Slides

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