CCC-CSU Transfer Collaborative

Building on the Foundation: The Collaborative's Next Steps 2024-2026

Guided by the recommendations from the 2023/24 CCC-CSU Transfer Collaborative's Solutions Groups and informed by the 2024 Working Retreat, the Collaborative's 2024–2026 phase prioritizes next steps that have the potential to benefit the most students, are feasible, and connect to existing California transfer initiatives.

The Collaborative's original efforts in this phase focused on four areas: Streamlining Access to Transfer Resources, Student & Credit Mobility, Transfer Pathways, and C2C Transfer Dashboards. Together, these components formed an interconnected system designed to create a clearer, more equitable path to transfer success for all California students. As design transitioned to implementation, the Collaborative recognized the need to pivot its deliverables—specifically, merging the work of Streamlining Access to Transfer Resources and Student & Credit Mobility into a single workgroup focused on designing transfer standards and elevating institutional change strategies through case studies.

The Collaborative sees particular value in the work on Transfer Pathways, as it supports fundamental intersegmental curricular collaboration among faculty—adding an essential dimension to the broader Student & Credit Mobility effort. This work is carried out through systemic strategic partnerships among participating California community colleges and CSU campuses.

Focus Area 1 - Access & Mobility

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Goal
Build a cohesive, well-resourced, and supported transfer cohort that champions change at its institutions and advocates for the broader adoption of solutions that benefit transfer students.
Outcome
A cross-sector approach that identifies transfer challenges, develops campus-level strategies with potential to scale, and creates a clear path for sharing ideas and driving institutional change.
Key Deliverables
- Collaboratively identify and develop a set of universal transfer standards and advocacy statements aimed at improving students' experience throughout the transfer journey and during the credit mobility process.
- Collaboratively identify and implement changes at the institutional and partner level aimed at improving students' experience throughout the transfer journey and during the credit mobility process. Document these changes in case studies to inform future institutional work.

Focus Area 2 - Pathways

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Goal
Help students know how to prepare to transfer by increasing clarity and reducing contingencies in their degree pathways.
Outcome
An agreed-upon, transparent 60-unit ADT curriculum for each discipline that each participating CCC offers and each participating CSU fully accepts toward general education and major requirements.
Key Deliverables
- Technical assistance to support implementation of Transfer Pathways in biology, business, and/or sociology
- Implementation Blueprint to support scaling of pathways, informed by participating institutions and state-level constituents
Data Collection
Informed by constructive faculty feedback during phase 1 and early phase 2, we are pivoting to Data Collection: Use institutional catalogs to create a database of CSU bachelor's degree program requirements and CCC ADT curriculum that is crosswalked to the TMC curriculum by discipline.

Focus Area 3 - Outcomes Dashboard

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Goal

Inform and elevate the forthcoming Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Transfer Outcomes Dashboard and support institutions in making data-informed leadership decisions.
Outcome

Participating institutions effectively leverage the C2C Transfer Outcomes Dashboard to inform institutional decisions that support transfer student success.
Key Deliverables
- Action plan to use state-level data sharing to provide institutional transfer dashboards
- Technical assistance and transfer data dashboard integration plan for each participating institution

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