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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. “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

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

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

10. Meet our Student
Confused Carl
Victoria

11. 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

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

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

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

15. Happy Carl!
Tanaya

16. 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

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

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