Beyond Transfer Show 2: It’s Time for Accreditors to Care About Transfer Student Outcomes

The Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) has issued a series of White Papers–referred to as the “No Easy Answers” series. The PAB is facilitated by Sova, a Higher Education Consulting organization and consists of a group of 12 expert practitioners who are laser focused on equity and understand how complex transfer and credit mobility are. The series highlights several challenges to the Transfer process and digs deep into layers of questionable business practices that have become standard in higher education. This 3-Part pod series will bring together members of the PAB who are writers and contributors to the white papers, and we will unpack their findings and recommendations. Accreditors have been flying under the radar, keeping their role within the HigherEd landscape to the work of maintaining and ensuring a degree of quality. Accreditors have great influence in institutional strategy and priorities. Transfer student degree attainment isn’t an essential aspect of accreditation, and the researchers at Beyond Transfer believe that without them, the needle on a transfer culture shift won’t happen. 

For this episode we will are joined by Ron Anderson and Maria Hesse, authors of the white paper. Recorded Live on Fireside: Office Hours with Dr. De Veau. The Next Evolution of Professional Development in Higher Education.  SHOW NOTES: Link to the 3 Beyond transfer White Papers: https://sova.org/beyond-transfer-publications/. For more information on the PAB. including the full membership: https://sova.org/beyond-transfer/. Connect with Dr. De Veau at https://linktr.ee/deveautrain Be part of the next show https://f.chat/Fw9V