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HECB Update:
Transfer and Articulation
&
System Design Planning
WaACRAO
April 3, 2009
Higher Education Coordinating Board
http://www.hecb.wa.gov/
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Transfer and articulation report
Transfer and Articulation Report
Addresses legislative requirements and
Strategic Master Plan goals and objectives
• Summary of policies and practices to increase
the number of students who successfully
transfer to baccalaureate institutions
• Review of transfer measures
• Future work needed to continue improvement
of student transfer in Washington
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Transfer and articulation report
Master Plan Strategies to raise
educational attainment
Make transfer more user friendly so that greater
numbers of students will successfully transfer
Two connected themes:
1. Disseminate the right information to students at the
right time; and
2. Further align institutional policies and practice to
ensure that students have flexibility in designing
their path to a degree.
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Initiatives
• Academic Guidance and Planning System –
Academic GPS
• Four new Direct Transfer Agreement and three
new Associate of Science Transfer Major
Related Programs implemented since 2006
• Two new Major Related Programs in progress
• Associate of Science Transfer #2 Revised
• Math in the Direct Transfer Agreement
• Criteria for changing statewide transfer
agreements
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Transfer and articulation report
Initiatives (cont.)
• Dual Credit and Dual Enrollment
Programs
• Prior Learning Assessments (PLA)
• Transfer of Veterans Skills and
Education for Licensure
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Transfer and articulation report
Initiatives – HB 2783
• Statewide Transfer Planning System –
Academic GPS
• Transfer Students Rights and
Responsibilities
• Transfer Students - Frequently Asked
Questions
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Transfer measures
• 18 years of steady increase in number
of successful student transferred
• 40% earning Bachelor’s in the state are
transfers
• 70% accessing higher ed start at CTC
From this perspective, the transfer process
is a vital link in our higher ed system
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Transfers from community & technical colleges
to baccalaureate institutions
Source: State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Academic Year Report, 2006-07.
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Transfer and articulation report
Transfers from community & technical colleges
to public baccalaureate institutions (including RS)
Source: State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Academic Year Report, 2006-07.
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Transfer and articulation report
Percentage of community & technical college
students that transfer each year
22%
20%
18%
16%
14%
12%
10%
1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
Source: SBCTC Academic Year Report. Transfer rate is calculated based on total transfers to public baccalaureate institutions,
including Running Start, as a percentage of students who declared their intent to transfer (all funds, including Running Start, College
in the High School, and International Students).
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Intent to transfer
Left school
32.40%
Transferred
within 3
years
53.20%
Still
enrolled
14.40%
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Transfer and articulation report
Ready to transfer
20000
18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
Source: Compiled by the HECB from data submitted by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
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Transfer and articulation report
State total 3-year graduation rate, associate
degree transfer students, public baccalaureates
72.0%
70.0%
68.0%
66.0%
64.0%
62.0%
60.0%
Baseline 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Source: HECB, compiled from data submitted by institutions.
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Transfer and articulation report
Sector-to-Sector transfer
2005-06
From To Number
Institution Type Institution Type of Students
CTC Baccalaureate 14,816
CTC CTC 10,810
Baccalaureate CTC 5,104
Baccalaureate Baccalaureate 2,266
Total Transfers 32,996
Source: HECB Student Mobility.
https://fortress.wa.gov/hecb/portal/default.aspx/Common/Mobility%20Report/default.aspx.
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Transfer degrees by category
Total DTA 12,519 95.20%
Total AS-T 625 4.80%
Total Transfer Degrees 13,144
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Future work to be done
• Develop a dashboard of transfer-related
data
• FAQs for transfer students
• Evaluate success of Major Related Programs
• Develop matrix of Prior Learning
Assessment opportunities, track pilot
• Develop matrix of current policies related to
military course transferability
• Continue development of Academic GPS
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Opportunities for change
In 2008, the Legislature endorsed a new 10-year
Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education.
Central Goal
Increase the level of
educational attainment
in Washington.
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Challenge: Population demographics 2008-2030
Source: OFM 2007
2005 - 6.2 million
There will be more of us
2.5 million
increase 2030 – 8.6 million
(+37%)
2005 = 11% of population
We will be older
Those over 65
will increase most rapidly 2030 = 19% of population
(+72%)
2005 = 23% Diversity
We will be more diverse
We will experience a
39% increase in the 2030 = 32% Diversity
diversity of our population
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Opportunities for change
Challenge: The pipeline leaks
Ninth
Cohort analysis based on AA, BA
12th degrees awarded in 2005-06
H.S.
College
BA
Completers 62%
100%
AA
38%
87%
76%
Sources:
OSPI: K12 Enrollment and Graduation
OSPI/SESRC: High School Graduate Follow-Up Study
40%
IPEDS: Completions Rate
19% 1
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Opportunities for change
The Strategic Master Plan provides a
10-year framework for improvement
• Increase degree and certificate attainment
by more than 40 percent annually by 2018.
• Promote economic growth and innovation
by focusing on the skills and knowledge
needed for prosperity in the 21st century.
• Emphasize accountability for results
throughout the higher education system.
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Opportunities for change
Implementing the plan
Broad strategies
Build the pipelines Invest in talent Re-design the system
Motivate and prepare Increase degree Align our higher
increasing numbers production at all levels education system’s
of K-12 students to – especially in high- development more
complete a degree or demand fields – to meet closely with identified
certificate. Build a rising demand for and emerging work-
re-entry pipeline for educated workers and force and societal
younger adult workers reduce reliance on needs. Expand to meet
who lack basic skills importing talent. demand as a new
and advanced generation of students
technical training. seeks increased access.
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Opportunities for change
Create a college-going culture
Proven, successful programs that
engage, motivate, prepare students
GEAR UP
Early outreach & intervention
College Bound Scholarship
Early promise
Dual Credit
Transition to college
Navigation 101
K-12 counseling & advising
Building Bridges
K-12 dropout prevention,
intervention
Opportunities for change
Improve persistence, completion
State Need Grant
Direct assistance for the state’s
neediest students
Student persistence funding
Student support services
Educational Opportunity Grants
For students who have completed 2
years of college seeking to transfer
Transition Math Project
College readiness in math; STEM
preparation
Opportunities for change
New initiatives
I-CAN
Integrated College Assistance Network
Try College
Free, online college and career
planning course
Expand Work Study
Experiential learning in high-demand
fields: science, technology engineering
Academic GPS
Statewide online academic guidance &
planning system
Opportunities for change
Jobs requiring at least one year of college-level work:
Annual supply/demand gap 2007-2016
3,000
Health care occupations
with shortages
2,000
Accounting, Early childhood
bookkeeping education
Construction teaching,
Transportation library asst.
Installation
1,000
maintenance,
Mechanics,
repair
science techs.
aircraft
mechanics
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Opportunities for change
Jobs requiring baccalaureate degree & above:
Annual supply/demand gap 2007-2016
3,000
Computer science
2,000
Engineering,
architecture Medical professionals 1,000
Editors, Human,
writers, protective Business, Research
performers services management scientists,
technical
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Opportunities for change
Recommendations
• Sustain and expand investment in high-
demand programs.
• Focus new degree production capacity on
high-demand occupations.
• Expand early childhood and math and
science teacher programs.
• Increase degree production at all three levels:
mid-level, baccalaureate, advanced
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Opportunities for change
Designing a system to meet degree needs
Purpose
Develop and recommend steps
to produce many more
undergraduate and graduate
degrees in Washington.
• Determine the role and scope of
institutions and education sectors.
• Develop policies and procedures to
plan and authorize growth and
change.
• Address the needs of under-served
areas and regions of the state.
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Opportunities for change
System design planning Groups
How should undergraduate and graduate Study conducting
Sponsors
degree programs be developed? and Steering
the system
How many and what types do we need? Committee design
study
Where should they be developed? HECB, COP, SBCTC,
ICW, Community
What are rational rules for growth? and Business Leaders
Where are students now being Study Group
served?
Public and Private
What ‘critical mass’ of unmet need Study Baccalaureate Institutions,
Planning
justifies building a new campus, Advisors Community & Technical Specialists
Colleges,
expanding an existing campus, HECB Advisory HECB and SBCTC
HECB Staff,
or creating a new higher Council COP &
Governor’s Office
education center? Chairs, Higher
Baccalaureate
Institutional Staff
Education Legislative ICW Staff
Committees SBCTC Staff
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Opportunities for change
System Design Plan Timeline
March 2009
• Convene workgroup
• Refine plan scope, schedule
• Specify planning tasks
March-October 2009
• Undertake planning
October 2009
• Report preliminary findings to HECB
November 2009
• Adopt recommendations
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Questions?
Washington Higher Education
Coordinating Board
Jim West: jimw@hecb.wa.gov
Web site: hecb.wa.gov
Transfer web site:
hecb.wa.gov/research/issues/transfer.asp
System design web
hecb.wa.gov/research/issues/SystemDesig
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