College Credit Transfer & Collaboration at York University Presentation to Student Pathways in Higher Education Conference – January 27, 2012 Glenn Craney Senior Policy Advisor to the President & Executive Director, Office of Institutional Research and Analysis

Overview Four Key Objectives Overview of college transfer and collaboration at York University What does the intake class of college transfer students look like? How well do they do? A different view - what does the graduation class of college transfer students look like?

College Transfer and Collaboration at York University York University is a leader in College-University Collaboration York has established a comprehensive block transfer credit policy in addition to 14 successful collaborative programs including BDesign program with Sheridan College and Collaborative Nursing programs with Seneca and Georgian Colleges Through this framework, York admits 2,600 students per year as credit transfer or into joint/collaborative programs. In total, almost 8,200 college transfer and joint degree students are enrolled at York University

Block Transfer Credit Policy York’s policy provides for a predetermined number of credits/courses or course waivers based on an number of factors: college program alignment years completed This transfer credit is offered as a matter of policy without special application required and without formal articulation agreements with the colleges. 5

Block Transfer Credit - Examples 6 Program Category Years Completed Credits Granted Electives General Education Examples A General Arts And Science, Business Administration B Comedy Writing & Performance, Database Application Developer C321 0 Electrical Engineering Technology, Nursing Assistant D315 0 Tool And Design Instrumentation Engineering Technology E312 0 Medical Radiation Technology, Support Care Notes: 1.Assumes a minimum 70% average 2.Credit will be assess on a sliding scale based on number of years completed.

New Admissions ( ) Almost 2,600 new admits (across all three terms) from college transfers and/or into collaborative programs 2,100 students transferred under the block credit transfer policy 800 into 1 st year and 1,300 into upper years 100 new students in the BDesign Program (Sheridan) 100 new students in Professional Writing (Seneca) 7

Total Enrolments – Fall/Winter Year 1 Upper Years Total College Transfer 1,001 5,709 6,710 Collaborative Nursing BDesign Professional Writing Total 1,196 6,946 8,142 Note: Unique students across all three semesters

New Class – What we know and what we need to find out Build upon previous study funded by CUCC- published in 2008 We know: sending college program of study at York performance at York how much credit transferred (new) More research is needed on: what did they study at the college (affinity) how many years of study did they graduate 9

New Class – Originating Institution 10

New Class – Choice of Program 11

New Class – Credit Transferred 12

How well do they do - Retention 13

How well do they do – Graduation 14

Graduation Class of Program 15

Class of 2011 – Time to Completion 16

Class of 2011 – Credit Accumulation 17

Future Research Partnership between York and Seneca York’s biggest ‘trading partner” build an administrative data set with student records from both institutions answers the missing questions/look for patterns college to university and university to college Special focus on nursing collaborative programs looking for key success factors 18