facilitating transfer decisions through the use of web-based tools
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Facilitating Transfer Facilitating Transfer Decisions Through the Decisions Through the
Use of Web-Based ToolsUse of Web-Based ToolsDemaree Michelau, WICHE
Richard Hezel, Hezel Associates
Mollie McGill, WCETBruce Chaloux, SREB
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Why articulation and Why articulation and transfer?transfer?
Assuming the baccalaureate is increasingly the “entry point to the workforce for the majority of students, ...improving the effectiveness of 2/4 transfer will be the key to national progress in closing the gap among racial groups in degree attainment since more minorities enter higher education through community colleges.” (Wellman, 2002)
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Intersecting Interests of the Intersecting Interests of the Lumina Foundation for Lumina Foundation for
EducationEducation Lumina Foundation for Education:
efforts to improve educational outcomes, including degree completion• KnowHow2Go • Achieving the Dream• Making Opportunity Affordable
President Obama is investing in community colleges and stressing associate’s degree completion
Articulation and transfer is the bridge between associate’s and bachelor’s degree completion
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Our StudyOur Study
Best Practices in Statewide Transfer and Articulation Systems
Focus on 2 to 4 transfer Inform policy development and
guide practice Methods:
• Literature review• Review of state policies and statues• Surveys and interviews (48 states)• Web portal research
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Essential Elements of A&T Essential Elements of A&T InitiativesInitiatives
Collaboration• statewide committees• models for engaging faculty
Communication• transfer associations/groups• transfer fairs and summits• websites/web portals• encouraging student feedback
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Essential Elements of A&T Essential Elements of A&T InitiativesInitiatives
Academic Policy• transfer credit blocks• course equivalencies• general education cores• common course numbering systems• major-specific transfer guides/matrices• Little evidence that states utilizing these
elements fare better than those that don’t Measurement, data collection,
assessment• Few examples of states doing this
effectively
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““Statewide” ApproachesStatewide” Approaches
States can be placed on a continuum…
from complete lack of statewide approach (Michigan)
to a comprehensive, integrated statewide approach (Florida)
All other states fall in between
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Collaboration Good PracticesCollaboration Good Practices Examples of committees:
• Massachusetts‘ Commonwealth Transfer Advisory Group includes representatives from 2-year and 4-year institutions, including faculty members, CAOs, transfer directors and coordinators
• Florida’s Standing Postsecondary Committee on Articulation and Transfer includes faculty and administrators from 2-year and 4-year institutions and representatives from FACTS.org and the DOE’s workforce unit
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Collaboration Good PracticesCollaboration Good Practices
Examples of models to engage faculty:• Arizona has numerous Articulation
Task Forces, including discipline specific task forces, an admissions and records task force, academic advising task force and a general education task force
• Wyoming provides incentives to support faculty work on transfer so that travel and other costs are not barriers to collaboration
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Communication Good Communication Good PracticesPractices
Examples of statewide transfer advising associations:• Kentucky’s Academic Advising
Association is a professional network for academic advisors to expand effective transfer advising
• North Carolina’s College Transfer Program Association helps campus academic leaders and advisors stay informed about A&T in NC
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Communication Good Communication Good PracticesPractices
Examples of encouraging feedback:• Alaska has an anonymous email
and phone number for students to submit complaints
• Missouri’s appeals process allows advisors to submit complaints on behalf of students
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WICHE Survey on WICHE Survey on Websites/Web PortalsWebsites/Web Portals
Survey target: State agencies, higher education systems and institutions
Survey target: Sites includes tools, services to help students navigate the transfer process from 2-yr to 4-yr
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Survey AreasSurvey Areas
The tools to help w/ transfer decisions/options
Funding issues – budget, sources of funding
Site usage statics and other ways measuring value of the site
Comprehensiveness of transfer information or multiple sites with partial representation of institutions
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Web-based Transfer ToolsWeb-based Transfer Tools
Degree audit types of tools such as:• Course to course equivalency
comparisons• Credit transfer information for
specific majors/degrees Gen Ed requirements &
transfer eligibility Transcript services Online applications
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Home-grown or 3Home-grown or 3rdrd Party Party ProvidersProviders
Academy One Decision Academic u.select XAP Docufide National Student
Clearinghouse
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Website or Web Portal?Website or Web Portal?
Will investigate how these sites refer to themselves – website or web portal
Portal – create personal account, track personal usage, obtain customizable credit transfer information
Or – static tables/matrics, links to campus transfer web pages
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Where’s the beef?Where’s the beef?
Underlying the tools -- state and institutional policies and agreements (e.g. articulation agreements)
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What’s next?What’s next?
Best Practices Guide will be published in Jan/Feb 2010• Will include more examples of good
practices and recommendations to guide further development of A&T policy
Presentations throughout 2010• First at NISTS, Jan 27-29,
Addison, TX http://www.wiche.edu/stas