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Technology and Transfer: SUNYs Integration of Transfer Policy and Technology TAAC Annual Conference Rosemont College, PA May 14, 2015 Christopher Hockey, Assistant Director of Student Mobility, SUNY System Administration Outline:

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TAAC Annual Conference Rosemont College, PA

May 14, 2015

Technology and Transfer: SUNY’s Integration of Transfer Policy and Technology

Christopher Hockey, Assistant Director of Student Mobility, SUNY System Administration

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Outline:

  • Overview of Student Mobility in SUNY
  • Where Does SUNY Stand?
  • Comparing Metrics
  • Supporting Transfer
  • DegreeWorks
  • Transfer Finder
  • Credit When It’s Due Initiative
  • SUNY Reverse Transfer
  • Project Overview
  • Transfer Tools
  • DegreeWorks Integration
  • Moving Forward
  • System Actions
  • Campus Actions
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Total Enrollment Headcount (459,550) + SUNY Employee Headcount (89,871) = 549,421 So…if SUNY were a city:

2014 SUNY Fast Facts

Boston 636,479 Seattle 634,535 Denver 634,265 Washington, DC 632,323 Nashville-Davidson 624,496 Baltimore, MD 621,342 Louisville, KY 605,110 Portland, OR 603,106 Oklahoma City, Okla. 599,199 Milwaukee, Wis. 598,916 Las Vegas, Nev. 596,424 Albuquerque, N.M. 555,417

SUNY 549,421

Tucson, Ariz. 524,295 Fresno, Calif. 505,882 Sacramento, Calif. 475,516 Long Beach, Calif. 467,892 Kansas City, Mo. 464,310 Mesa, Ariz. 452,084 Virginia Beach, Va. 447,021 Atlanta, Ga. 443,775 Colorado Springs, Colo. 431,834 Raleigh, N.C. 423,179 Omaha, Nebr. 421,570 Miami, Fla. 413,892

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SUNY shares similar enrollment patterns as the rest of the country:

  • For all students who earned an undergraduate degree in 2010-2011
  • 46.4% of baccalaureate degrees; and
  • 27.1% of associate degrees were awarded to transfer students.
  • On a semester-by-semester basis, among all students who transferred to SUNY campuses

(AY 2007-08 – AY 2010-11):

  • Similar to the national trend, SUNY 2 year campuses are a popular destination for transfer

students.

47.6% 52.3% SUNY Community Colleges SUNY State Ops

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SUNY Transfer Patterns

16.6% 35.3% 26.2% 21.9% 2 year - 2 year 2 year- 4 year 4 year - 2 year 4 year - 4 year

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Key Points:

  • Transfer is everyone’s business
  • SUNY campuses in all sectors are both

senders and receivers.

  • As a system, we must strive to support
  • mnidirectional transfer student success.
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How SUNY Measures Up

  • How SUNY Measures Up

All using 2009-2010, six-year graduation data. Sources: SUNY System Administration (SUNY Averages), IPEDS (National Averages).

61% 63% 55% 65% 27% SUNY Transfer Students SUNY Native Students National Average (Public) National Average (Private, Non-Profit) National Average (Private, For-Profit)

Graduation Rates: 4-Year Institutions

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Average Earned Credits of Baccalaureate Degree Recipients (2009-10)

144 152 136 138 138 141 133 133 137 120 125 130 135 140 145 150 155 Texas Public Universities Native Texas Public Universities Transfer State University System of Florida… State University System of Florida… California State University System… California State University System… SUNY Native SUNY Transfer National Average

How SUNY Measures Up

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A Basis for Seamless Transfer

All SUNY A.A and A.S. graduates are guaranteed:

  • Transfer of 60 credits of coursework toward the bachelor’s

degree.

  • Up to 30 credits of general education courses in ten subject

areas.

  • No repeat courses with the same (at least 70%) content.
  • Transfer to at least one SUNY 4-year campus.

SUNY Policies

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Seamless Transfer: Gen Ed ‘Nuances’

  • Local General education must include SUNY GER but is not

limited to this.

  • Receiving institutions must accept a category as met by the

sending institution if indicated on the GETA. This does not automatically mean that the course is guaranteed to transfer.

  • Courses which have as a prerequisite a course which has been

approved for SUNY GER are also approvable in that category.

  • Double dipping (having courses approved in more than one

category, allowing students to meet more than one category with a single course) is allowable according to local campus policy. 30 credits of gen ed must still be completed.

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Making Seamless Transfer Work – Beyond General Education Major Requirements in the first two years:

  • 37 Transfer Paths (58 majors) in the most popular disciplines.
  • Covers 95% of all transfer students within SUNY.
  • 140 core courses defined by faculty committees.
  • Over 400 faculty from both 2 year + 4 year campuses.
  • Nearly 15,000 courses in the mobility database.
  • These courses are guaranteed to transfer to SUNY campuses.

SUNY Policies

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Transfer Pathways All Paths Biology Transfer Path

Transfer Pathways

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  • Sets specific requirements to address key barriers to

transfer, completion and success:

– General Education

  • 7 of 10 areas and 30 credits of general education completed in the

first 60 credits of all A.A., A.S. and bachelor’s degrees AND

– Courses in the Major

  • Transfer Path courses in the major and cognates in A.A. and A.S.

programs sufficient for junior status

– Credit cap set for associate’s programs = 64 credits – Credit cap set for bachelor’s programs = 126

Seamless Transfer Resolution

Following two years of discussion and consultation, in December 2012, the SUNY Trustees adopted a resolution on seamless transfer

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Evidence: Major Requirements

Requiring programs to clearly define foundational courses and transfer paths accomplishes two distinct and important goals:  Encourages students to enter a specific field of study.  Aligns upper and lower division coursework Evidence:

  • Internal study of SUNY students in CC General Studies programs echoed

findings from student success literature (Jenkins & Cho, 2012).

  • The more courses a student completed within one discipline (typically up

to 3-5 courses), the more likely students were to:  Transfer vertically  Attain an associate degree  Attain a bachelors degree

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Seamless transfer is supported by current policy, but students must take the right coursework:

At least 7 of 10 Gen Ed categories + at least four courses in the major (and cognates) =

Seamless Transfer

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SUNY Degree Planning & Audit Tool

Every SUNY undergraduate student will have comprehensive, interactive degree planning services at every SUNY institution, with the ability for students considering transfer to assess degree progress at other SUNY institutions.

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SUNY Degree Planning & Audit Tool

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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Transfer Customization

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The Credit When It’s Due Initiative

  • What is CWID?
  • The CWID initiative is designed to encourage partnerships of

community colleges and universities to significantly expand programs that award associate degrees to transfer students when the student completes the requirements for the associate degree while pursuing a bachelor’s degree. This is commonly referred to as “reverse back” or reverse transfer”.

  • Funding will support
  • Hiring Reverse Transfer Project Coordinator for two years.
  • Develop a common database of course equivalencies.
  • Development of tools to facilitate course equivalency evaluations.
  • Interns/overtime pay for data entry.

Source: Office of Community College Research and Leadership (November 1, 2012)

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Potential Students: SUNY State-OP Other New York State Institutions Other US Institutions International Institutions SUNY Community College Unknown

State-Op to State-Op CC to CC

8.6% 6.6% 6.5% .9% 13.2% 7.7% 22.8% 7.9%

* Total may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Note: SUNY to SUNY totals 45% of new transfers:

Vertical Transfers (Fall, 2011):

  • 9,881
  • 4049 (41%) had an associate degree
  • 5832 without an associate degree
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Centralized Strategy

  • Build and host a centralized database.
  • Build a web application with tools for performing CE.
  • Advantages

1. Sustains and expands over time.

  • Captures institutional knowledge.

2. Provide information and services to aid campus workflow.

  • Users can see all campus CE’s, rather than only local.

3. Provides these services to ALL campuses. 4. Public views available too. 5. Provides opportunities for future analysis.

  • Disadvantages

1. Up-front cost for web development. 2. More technically complicated. 3. Requires campus buy-in. Will people use the tools? 4. Doesn’t address different campus SIS.

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SUNY-TECAS (Transfer Equivalency & Course Approval System)

  • Web Portal: One-stop shopping for course approval & equivalency
  • Gen ed course approval (Active)
  • Mobility course approval (next phase)
  • Course equivalency (Phase III?)
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STECAS (SUNY Transfer Equivalency & Course Approval System)

  • Capture each instance of course equivalency & add to database.
  • Users can
  • Search by course, campus, discipline, etc.
  • View course equivalencies across multiple campuses.
  • Example: Evaluating ANTH 111 from Plattsburgh

Sending Campus Course ID Title Receiving Campus Course ID Title Requirement Fulfilled Plattsburgh ANTH 111 Intro to Anthropology Binghamton ANT 101 Intro to Human Evolution GE5 Social Sciences Cayuga ANT 102 Human Culture Major requirement Albany AANT100 Perspectives in Anthropology GE5 Social Science Oswego ANT 103 Introduction to Ant Eating Freshman Seminar

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  • View and compare course descriptions:

STECAS

Plattsburgh to Cayuga

  • Create course equivalencies

Submit

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STECAS Perform Course Equivalencies Populate Database

Campus Users Display back to campus users Campus SIS Populate SIS Students

Closing the Loop:

Send Transcripts

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SUNY Reverse Transfer Project Overview

  • Lumina Grant
  • Lumina’s Goal 2025: “Increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and

credentials to 60% by 2025.”

  • Fits with SUNY’s strategic initiatives for completion and success.
  • Expand functionality of Degreeworks to include reverse transfer.

Receiving Campus

Batch process from System through Degreeworks: For students with > 30 credits at sending campus + No associate degree + Have met degree requirements at sending campus

List of Students

John Q Student Jane B. Student

Sending Campus System

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Moving Forward

  • System Actions:
  • Continue to find funding for technology
  • Identify pilot groups
  • Continued discussion and development on transfer tools
  • Data collection and dissemination
  • Assistance in campus workflow and systems changes
  • Provide oversight of RT and TF processes
  • Provide coordination and support for TF testing
  • Provide current and updated documentation
  • Coordinate review of product and processes
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Moving Forward

  • Campus Actions:
  • Review of graduation policies for potential roadblocks
  • Review of current workflow processes
  • Course equivalency updates and submissions
  • Review of existing outreach process and procedures
  • RT transcript submission and/or review
  • Review of TF documentation
  • TF setup
  • GETA block scribing
  • TF testing
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Discussion? Questions?

Contact Information: Christopher Hockey Assistant Director of Student Mobility SUNY System Administration chris.hockey@suny.edu 315-214-2420