Improving Transfer from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions

The project's team collaborates with faculty and administrators at QC and QCC to develop performance goals, methodologies, and rubrics to assess student learning outcomes and progress in STEM. Data from this project will contribute to enhance understanding of how students in STEM accumulate credits, progress academically, and attain STEM degrees.

The team also supports faculty writing articulation agreements between QCC and QC for all STEM majors. Some of these agreements will lead to dual degrees, based on curricula co-owned by the disciplinary faculty at QC and QCC.

Tools

• TREX: Transfer Explorer (https://explorer.lehman.edu/) (previously known as the Transfer App, http://transfer-app.qc.cuny.edu): There are over a million rules that tell how courses transfer among CUNY colleges. This site lets you see what rules exist (or not), to provide feedback about existing rules, and to track the status of the rule review process. The tool is designed to help solve the transfer problem with the voracity of T-Rex!

• Degreeworks (http://degreeworks.cuny.edu): Online advisement system

• CUNYfirst (http://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu): System for student and employee administrative, human resources, and financial processes, including student academic records

  • CUNY course catalog (also here)

  • CUNY global course search

• Articulation Template

  • QC-QCC Template

Links

• CUNY Transfer Hub (https://www.cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate/explore/transfer/)

• FAQs about CUNY transfer, for students

• CUNY's faculty handbook for the creation of new academic programs

  • Preparation of articulation

  • Recommended format for articulation agreements

• University Faculty Senate list of existing articulation agreements in CUNY

Selected Readings

Jenkins, D. & Fink, J. (2016). Tracking transfer: New measures of institutional and state effectiveness in helping community college students attain Bachelor’s degrees. New York, NY: Community College Research Center.

Xu, D., Jaggars, D. S., & Fletcher, J. (2016). How and why does two-year college entry influence baccalaureate aspirants’ academic and labor market outcomes? CAPSEE (Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment) Working Paper.

Kopko, E. M. & Crosta, P. M. (2016). Should community college students earn an associate degree before transferring to a 4-year institution? Research in Higher Education, 57, 2, 190-222. DOI:10.1007/s11162-015-9383-x