Arizona State University Victoria Palmenberg & Tanaya Dempsey Solving the Unsolved Mysteries of How to Standardize all Transfer Credit AZ Transfer Summit April 13, 2018

Welcome! Learning Objectives Background of Department and TCG The Transfer Credit That’s Out There How to Define Standardized Meet our Student Following our Student Group Exercise Questions Victoria

Learning Objectives #1: Identifying ways to collaborate with partnering departments #2: Techniques to use when problem solving unique transfer credit #3: Tools to assist with consistent assessment of transfer credit Tanaya

Academic Transfer Credit Solutions (ATCS) Fall 2017: 103,419 students, 53% with transfer/prior transferrable credit ASU has more than 400 majors and over 16,000 courses ATCS evaluates transfer credit for domestic, international, and Joint Services transcripts Rules created for each transfer course = standardization for all students Victoria

500,000 Transfer Credit Guide Database Searchable database for current and prospective students to view transfer course equivalencies. TCG.asu.edu 500,000 QUESTION: How many rules do you think are in the database? Tanaya

Types of Transfer credit Semester/Quarter/Unit Districts Numbers for prefixes Long prefixes International Joint Services Transcript No prefix or number Victoria

“Standardize” stand·ard·ize Verb cause (something) to conform to a standard. adopt (something) as one's standard. How to standardize: Collaborate Understand Systems Implement Communicate to Stakeholders Maintain Follow up Tanaya

Examples of Standardizing Rivier University 1. Collaborate, understand systems 2. Implement, communicate to stakeholders Victoria 3. Maintain, follow up

Examples of Standardizing U of Missouri 1. Collaborate, understand systems 2. Implement, communicate to stakeholders Tanaya 3. Maintain, follow up

Meet our Student Confused Carl Victoria

University of St La Salle Confused Carl Working Through the System Madison Area Technical College Transcript University of St La Salle International Transcript Joint Services Transcript (JST – Military) Tanaya

University of St La Salle Confused Carl Working Through the System Spring 2010 University of St La Salle International Transcript Victoria

Joint Services Transcript (JST – Military) Confused Carl Working Through the System Joint Services Transcript (JST – Military) Tanaya

Madison Area Technical College Transcript Confused Carl Working Through the System Madison Area Technical College Transcript Victoria

Happy Carl! Tanaya

Exercise Work in groups. Review transfer coursework for a student who is applying to your institution. What ideas do you have for standardizing the credit? “Each problem I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes Victoria

How ASU Standardized the Exercise Joint Service Transcripts: Los Angeles Harbor College: U of Cincinnati: Tanaya

Questions? Tanaya Dempsey Tanaya.Dempsey@asu.edu Program Manager – Academic Transfer Credit Solutions Victoria Palmenberg vapalmen@asu.edu Transfer Credit Guide – searchable course articulation database TCG.asu.edu Transfer.asu.edu