Partnering for Student Transfer Success Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges • Council of Presidents Washington’s community and technical colleges, private non-profit baccalaureate, and public baccalaureate colleges and universities have a proud history of partnering to serve students. Nowhere is our cooperation more evident than in the smooth transfer process from community and technical colleges into the four-year colleges and universities. National research cites four factors that lead to efficient transfer 1,2 1 . FOLLOW A CLEAR PATHWAY. Statewide transfer 2 . COMPLETE AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE BEFORE agreements in Washington allow students to transfer TRANSFER. Washington students transfer with an to universities with two years of college-level course- associate degree and earn bachelor’s degrees at work with general education requirements already much higher rates than students nationally. completed (for DTA). Washington3 Nationally Direct Transfer Agreement associate degree (also called “the DTA”) with clear pathways – % transferring with AA degree 67% 3 20%2 Major Related Programs in: ® Biology ® Nursing BA within 3 years post-transfer 71%4 N/A ® Business ® Pre-Nursing ® Transferred with AA ® Construction Management ® Technology BA within 3 years post-transfer 62% 4 N/A ® No AA Associate of Science – Transfer (AS-T) — with Major Related Programs in: BA within 6 years post-transfer 82% 4 41% 5 ® Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering ® Transferred with AA ® Computer and Electrical Engineering ® Mechanical/Civil/Aeronautical/Industrial/ Transfer degrees are honored by all Material Engineering Washington’s public and most private ® Engineering Technology colleges and universities. ® Coming soon: Computer Science Key Facts ® 17,105 Washington students transferred from ® Two basic associate degrees smooth the community and technical colleges to process for the majority of Washington four-year institutions in 2013-2014.3 transfer students: ® Transfer students earned 40% of all P DTA for social sciences, bachelor’s degrees at Washington public humanities and some sciences colleges and universities, including:8 P AS-T for engineering, physics, chemistry P 47% of business graduates ® 98% of AS-T graduates who earn a P 46% of health field graduates bachelor’s degree do so in a STEM-related P 35% of STEM majors graduates field.6 S B C TC S B C TC E D U C A T I O N • O P P O R T U N I T Y • R E S U L T S E D U C A T I O N • O P P O R T U N I T Y • R E S U L T S Partnering for Student Transfer Success 3 . MAKE SURE ALL ACADEMIC CREDITS TRANSFER. University bachelor’s degrees are also In Washington, transfer students graduate with a available at most of Washington’s bachelor’s degree with a similar number of total 34 community and technical colleges. credits as those who start at four-year universities Campus-based partnerships as freshmen. This is not true nationally, where “lost” (degrees vary by location) credits result in far more total credits for the average transfer student. 1. Bellevue College – EWU “Students who transferred almost all of their community 2. Big Bend Community College – CWU/Heritage University college credits were 2.5 times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than students who transferred fewer 3. Cascadia College – UW than half of their credits.”7 4. Centralia College – City U/Saint Martin’s University 5. Clark College/EWU Median Credits to Degree by Entry Status in Washington8 6. Columbia Basin College – WSU/Heritage University 190 187 194 193 225 232 198 200 219 223 187 190 204 215 78.. EEvdemreotnt dCso Cmommumnuitnyi tCyo Clloeglleeg –e C –W CUW/EUWU/WWU/ Evergreen/UW/WSU 9. Grays Harbor College – CWU/Evergreen/City U 10. Highline College – CWU /Heritage University 11. Lake Washington Institute of Technology – CWU 12. Lower Columbia College – EWU /WSU /City U Arts and Business Education Health Other Social STEM 13. North Seattle College – EWU and WWU Letters Science 14. Olympic College – WSU/WWU Freshman Entry CTC Transfer 15. Peninsula College – CWU/WWU/Evergreen/ City U 4 . UTILIZE A MULTI-SECTOR GROUP TO SOLVE 16. Pierce College Fort Steilacoom – CWU EMERGING ISSUES. The JOINT TRANSFER 17. Shoreline Community College – UW-Bothell COUNCIL is a collaboration that includes the 18. South Seattle College – EWU community and technical colleges and public and 19. Walla Walla Community College – WSU private baccalaureate institutions that guides college- 20. Wenatchee Valley College – CWU transfer policy across the state. It is involved in the 21. Yakima Valley Community College – CWU/WSU development of new transfer pathways and new 8 multi-institution agreements. Its members continually 7 look at emerging issues and opportunities to make 17 3 the transfer experience better. Bellingham 13 111 14 18 1100 Port Angeles 15 Everett “Washington state is fortunate to have a 16 Seattle Spokane 40-year history of public two- and four-year Tacoma Wenatchee 20 Aberdeen Olympia Moses Lake institutions working together to facilitate the 9 2 4 Centralia Yakima transfer process for students.” 12 21 6 Tri-Cities 19 Walla Walla Vancouver Community College Research Center, 5 Columbia UniversityTeachers College. July 20149 Partnership Locations 1. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), (2014). Successful Student Transfer: A Key Building Block of the Completion Agenda. 2. Jenkins, D., & Fink, J. (2015). What we know about transfer. New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center. 3. SBCTC (2014). Academic Year Report 2013-2014. 4. Education Research & Data Center, Statewide Public Four-Year Dashboard, (2015). http://www.ofm.wa.gov/hied/dashboard/index.html. 5. Crosta, P.M. and Kopko, E.M (2014). Should Community College Students Earn Associate Degree Before Transferring to a Four-Year Institution? New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center. 6. SBCTC (2014). Associate of Science Transfer and STEM Focused Direct Transfer Agreement- Associate of Arts (Research Report 14-3). 7. Jenkins, D., & Fink, J. (2015). What we know about transfer. New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center. 8. SBCTC, (August 2013). The Role of Transfer in the Attainment of Bachelor’s Degrees at WA Public Baccalaureate Institutions Class of 2011. 9. Jenkins, D., Kadlec, A., & Votruba, J (2014). Maximizing Resources For Student Success: The Business Case for Regional Public Universities to Strengthen Community College Transfer Pathways (with Guidance on Leading the Process). New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center. Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges • Council of Presidents