Featured Sessions

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Opening Keynote  

Full Steam Ahead: From Tracking to Transforming Transfer!

• Tatiana Velasco and John Fink, Community College Research Center

• Tania LaViolet, Aspen Institute College Excellence Program

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Action-Focused Workshop  

Transfer Playbook: Early Findings from the Second Edition

• Tania LaViolet and Nora Ngo, Aspen Institute College Excellence Program

   

Plenary Panel  

Insights from Effective Transfer Change Makers

• Kate Hamilton, Aspen Institute College Excellence Program

• Philip Giarraffa, Miami Dade College 

• Steve Marcelynas, Connecticut State Colleges & Universities 

• Carrie Carroll, Metro State University

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Concurrent, On-Demand, and Poster Sessions

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Enhancing Access, Affordability, and Wellness

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• ​From Ideas to Implementation: Using Transfer Student Capital to Create Transfer Inclusive Curriculum Slides  Handout

• Before, During, and After: Expanding Transfer Support Using Transfer Student Capital  Slides  Video  Handout

• The African American Transfer Tipping Point: Exploring the Transfer Journeys of Over 7,000 African American/Black Community College Students  Slides  Video        

• Recruiting the Modern Transfer Student: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities  Slides

• Transfer Perceptive: A Contextual Analysis on Transfer Student Websites Across Institutions  Poster

• Human Capital Education and Development: Prioritizing Educational Access, Equity and Opportunity in Degree Design

• Finding the Right Fit: Individual and Institutional Factors that Influence Transfer Destination Selection

• ENGAGE: Shifting the Transfer Narrative from a Deficit to an Asset Framework  Slides  Video  Handout

• Transfer Triumph: Boosting Belonging & Success through a Career-Focused Pre-Orientation Program  Slides  Handout

• HEALing Men in the Tarheel State: Transfer Pathways of Men in Health, Education, Administration, and Literacy Fields  Slides

• Increasing College Capital for Underrepresented Community College  Students via a Multi-Year Engineering Pathway    

• Who, Why, and Where: Examining the Factors that Motivate Students to Consider Transfers  Slides

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Fostering Inclusion, Engagement, and Community

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• Leveraging Your CRM to Fuel Transfer Success  Slides  Video    

• Achieving Faculty Buy-in to Support Transfer Students  Slides

• Engagement and Belonging: Using High-Impact Programs to Foster Transfer Student Success  Slides    

• Addressing the Core Professional and Social Needs of Internal & External Transfer Students at a 4-Year Private Business School                

• Developing Transfer Student Transition Programs at a Large, 4-year State University

• Extending the Transfer Orientation Experience: Tips for Onboarding & Supporting Transfer Students  Slides        

• So Much to Learn, So Little Time: Orientation that Supports Post-Traditional Students in Online Programs  Slides

• Transfer Student Empowerment: Shaping the Experience for Yourself and Others  Poster        

• Inclusive Excellence in STEM Transfer: Voices of Transfer Agents                

• Bridging Pathways: Empowering Community College Transfers                

• Early Momentum and Engagement Predictors of Completion and Transfer Among Community College Students

• ACT Community of Practice: Collaboratively Designing a System-wide Student Transfer Tool  Slides  

• Live Stream Ahead! Connecting with Students Where They're at Through Social Media        

• ConeXiones: The Importance of Connection and Community for Achieving Transfer Success        

• From Transfer to Graduation and Beyond: Preparing Engineering Transfer Students for Life After Graduation

• Students Engaging in a Transfer Inclusive Culture  Slides

• Building Equity and Transfer Success with Underrepresented Populations  Slides    

• One State's Approach to Transfer Student Engagement: Creating Opportunities for Broad Collaboration to Enhance the Transfer Journey  Slides  Handout

• Empowering Transfer Success Through Collaborative Coaching and Advising: The Knight Track Approach  Slides        

• A Conversation with the 2024 National Transfer Student Ambassadors Interviews

• Leveraging Free and Low-Cost Technology  Slides

• Aspire to Do More: How Two Institutions Redesigned the Transfer Experience to Improve Institutional Access and Outcomes  Slides  Video    

• Welcome, We’re Glad You’re Here (and here): Supporting Belonging and Success Across Institutions  Slides        

Leading and Advocating for Change

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• Leading Change, Bridging Success: A Collaborative Vision for Transfer  Slides        

• Not Just Another Report to Store on a Shelf  Slides        

• ACCelerating a Student’s Journey: How One State Uses Policy to Assist Students in the Transfer and Articulation Process  Slides        

• Four Learning Experiences for Faculty that Maximized Pathway Development  Slides  Video  Handout

• Parenting Scholar: Transfer Bound!  Slides        

• Course Triangulator: the Course Evaluation Solution of the Future  Slides        

• Just Tell Me What to Do! Five Practical Steps to Enroll and Retain More Transfer Students  Slides  Handout

• The Little Engin(eering) Technology Program That Could: A Story of Resilience and How an AAS Program Kept on Chugging  Slides        

• From Novice to Knowledgeable: Navigating the First-Time Research Experience  Slides  Handout

• Harnessing the Power: How a Comprehensive Transfer Office Can Fuel Student Success  Slides 

• Centrally Coordinating to Decentrally Deliver: How Two Institutions Committed to Transform the Transfer Student Experience  Slides  Video

• Revolutionizing Course Articulation: A Teams Approach to Efficient Communication  Slides  Video    

• Promoting STEM Transfer Student Success: Implementing a Cooperative Grant Requires Institutional Change  Slides        

• Using Active Engagement to Support Transfer Students  Poster        

• Sharing Success: The Evolution of a Co-Advising Model Between a Four-Year Institution and Community College   Slides        

• Let them eat transfer credits!  Slides        

• The (50) State(s) of Transfer: Using Disaggregated Transfer Data to Transform Institutional Practice  Blog

• University Systems Using Small Tests of Change for Big Wins. Beware, No Pilot Programs Allowed!  Slides

• Centralized Tools, Decentralized Stakeholders: Creating One-Stop Systems for Transfer Student Success  Slides        

• Making Transfer a Reality at Ivies and Highly Selective Colleges  Slides        

• Launching a Transfer Advisory Team  Slides        

• Transfer Nation | Your Peer-to-Peer Transfer Learning Hub!  Website

Maximizing Credits and Streamlining Pathways

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• JUMP into Pathways: Joining UVU and MTECH Pathways                

• Breaking the Barriers for Transfer Students: Applicability over Transferability  Slides

• The Ultimate Playbook: How To Up Your Transfer Partner Game  Slides

• Transfer Pathways with Local Community Colleges to Maximize Credits and Minimize Time to Degree  

• Expanding and Clarifying Transfer Students’ Options through a Statewide Portal and Curricula  Slides

• Baruch Business Academy: A Supportive Transfer Pathway Program Empowering a Diverse Academic and Business Sector  Slides  Handout

• How Curriculum Alignment Can Work for You  Slides

• The Enormous Benefits of Credit Mobility Transparency: CUNY Transfer Explorer as a National Model  Slides        

• Developing Local Articulation Pathways: Why They Matter More Than Ever  Slides

• Degrees to Succeed: Going Beyond Dual Admission to Increase Community College Retention and Completion  Slides        

• Expanding Transfer Pathways with AI  Slides        

• Building Early Relationships with Prospective Students: Utilizing Institutional Partnerships    

• Guided Pathways: Quantifying Curricular Alignment  Slides  Video    

• Transfer Pathway Implementation: More than Five Years Later, What Have We Learned?  Slides

• Strategic Plans for Articulation Agreements and Pathways: Reimagine & Recharge Your Process  Slides

• Building and Expanding Community College Partnerships to Support Student Access, Seamless Transfer and Degree Completion  Poster

• Drafting a Transfer Advising Guide: Understanding How Academic Advisors Build Transfer Knowledge through Training and Development  Slides   

• Creating Seamless Pathways Through Innovative Partnerships: A Framework that Works  Poster

• Sustainable Partnerships for Transfer Student Success: Community Colleges & HBCUs  Slides  Handout

• Collaborating on State-Level Transfer Initiatives  Slides

Optimizing the Matriculation Process

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• Communication Plans from Scratch: How a Large University Reimagined Outreach to Transfer Students  Slides        

• Pre-Enrollment Academic Advisement for New Transfer Students  Slides

• Establishing Effective Onboarding Processes and Programs for Transfer Students  Slides

• Pathways Through Partnership: Designing an Equity-Driven Transfer Support Program Through Creative Cross-Institutional Collaborations  Slides

• Building Transfer Pathways to Private Colleges and Universities  Slides  Slides 2

Supporting Diverse and Special Populations

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• Elevating Equity: Enhancing Parenting Student Success  Slides

• Stealth Transfer: Supporting Incoming High Schoolers with College Credit  Slides

• ENGAGE: Multi-Institution Mentoring  Poster

• Wandering the Education Desert: Exploring Transfer Barriers in University Education Deserts  Slides

• Supporting Special Populations through Transfer and Beyond

• Transfer Student Success: Building a Successful First

Sponsors & Educational Partners

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• Necessary But Not Sufficient: The Need for Redoubled Transfer Student Advocacy in the Face of Persistent Disparity  Slides

• Students’ Lived Experiences in Transferring Credits: New Empirical Research  Slides  Handout

• Combatting Transfer Shock  Slides

• Demystifying Credit Transfer and Faculty (and Staff) Decision-Making  Slides

• Leveraging Technology to Implement Transfer Best Practices         

• Closing the Gap: Supporting Independent Students with Common App  Slides

• Reinventing Student Transfer: A Look at Inbound by DegreeSight  Slides

• Recruiting Transfer Students in a Changing Enrollment Landscape  Slides

• ECCompass: A Technology Solution for Institutional Initiatives Focused on Credit Mobility for Students  Slides

• Redesigning College Admission in Service to Equity  Slides

• Empowering Faster Transfer Admissions Decisions With Transcript Automation  Slides

• From Dean's List to Transfer Honor Roll: Using PTK Connect to Attract High-Achieving Transfer Students  Slides

• Hop on Purdue Global's Train to Learn About Our Credit for Prior Learning and Partnerships    

• Transformational Partnerships Panel Discussion    

• Evolving Higher Ed: Tech, Trends & Transfer Students    

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

• Transforming the Foundational Postsecondary Experience

• Interrogating Outcomes of Academic Advising: Frameworks, Research, and Action

• Understanding and Implementing Equity-Driven Practices for Transfer and Transfer-Intending Student Success

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