Quality Collaboratives: Assessing and Reporting Degree Qualifications Profile Competencies in the Context of Transfer Publications

Collaboration for Student Transfer: A Nationwide Degree Qualifications Profile Experiment

By: Terrel Rhodes, Gary Brown, Judith A. Ramaley, Rebecca Dolinsky Graham and Heather McCambly

This publication reports on efforts by two-year and four-year institutions in nine states—California, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts, and North Dakota—to improve transfer articulation policies and practices in order to enhance student success.

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Action Steps for Advancing Transfer Student Success: Lessons Learned from Cross-Institutional Collaborations

By: Rebecca Dolinsky Graham, Terrel Rhodes and Heather McCambly

This publication presents ten case studies to demonstrate how close collaboration between two-year and four-year institutions can lead to greater success for transfer students.

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Assessment Practices for Advancing Transfer Student Success: Collaborating for Educational Change

By: Gary Brown and Terrel Rhodes

This publication offers practical advice on how to collaborate across institutions in order to advance learning outcomes assessment in the context of transfer.

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The Quality of a College Degree: Toward New Frameworks, Evidence, and Interventions

By: Debra Humphreys, Judith A. Ramaley and Heather McCambly

This publication examines the alignment (and misalignment) between assessment approaches recommended by public policymakers and those undertaken at the campus level, especially in the context of student transfer from two-year to four-year institutions. The authors provide recommendations for reframing policy debates, along with a framework for aligning state and institutional policies with a contemporary vision of educational quality and current patterns of student attendance.