Managing Director, Reverse Transfer and Military Initiatives W. David Pelham, Ed.D. National Student Clearinghouse Reverse Transfer Project: An Automated,

Managing Director, Reverse Transfer and Military InitiativesW. David Pelham, Ed.D.

National Student Clearinghouse Reverse Transfer Project: An Automated, National Academic Data Sharing Platform

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• How NSC Became Involved With Reverse Transfer• Research Overview• Project Overview• Project Funding• Reverse Transfer Platform Present and Future• Questions

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How NSC Became Involved with Reverse Transfer

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• Invited to participate in RT meeting at 2013 AACRAO• Proposal by AAU Registrars subcommittee, Spring 2013• NSC response submitted with 3 phase approach, Summer 2013• Search for funding began, Fall 2013• Funding sources for Phase I identified, Winter 2014• Development of Phase I began, Summer of 2014• Lumina Grant Proposal for part of Phase II Awarded, Fall 2014• First Phase generally available July 1, 2015

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Policy Objectives1) Increase associate degree attainment for students

2) Ensure that all eligible students have the opportunity to be awarded a first

associate degree that reflects their educational efforts and allows them to compete

more successfully in other academic arenas and the workforce

3) Create a standardized, streamlined, technologically enhanced process that will

assist four-year and two-year institutions in transferring student credits more

efficiently, securely, and successfully

4) Leverage existing infrastructure with a trusted partner by taking a national

approach to facilitate the reverse transfer processes

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How many students

could RT potentially impact?

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Some College No Degree State Transfer Patterns for North Carolina•Total Cohort – 126,329•Total Enrolling in Other States – 10,159•Total Enrolling from Other States – 12,768

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Student Loan Default Rates

Defaults are concentrated among the millions of students who drop

out without a degree, and they tend to have smaller debts. That is

where the serious problem with student debt is. Students who

attended a two- or four-year college without earning a degree are

struggling to find well-paying work to pay off the debt they

accumulated. Susan Dynarsky, TheUpshot, NYT, Aug. 31, 2015

NSC REVERSE PROJECTLess Student Debt, Higher Default Rates Students with less student debt are least likely to pay back their loans, because many do not have jobs that pay well. $1,000 to $5,000 34%$5,000 to $10,000 29%$10,000 to $25,000 24%$25,000 to $50,000 21%$50,000 to $100,000 21%more than $100,000 18%Among graduate and undergraduate borrowers who left school in 2009, share who defaulted by 2014. Sources: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel and Equifax (Published in TheUpshot, NYT, August 31, 2015)

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Reverse Transfer Project Overview

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• Phase 1 Facilitates the submission of files from the Host Institution,

notification of Degree Granting Institution(s) and downloading of files by

DGI(s) Projected Completion: July 2015 Status: Generally Available• Phase 2 Creates a Student Data Mart at NSC which allows for cross

checking of all student data held by NSC and provides mobile student

access to all their data including who has accessed it and for what purpose

Status: Divided into 3 Stages, Stage 1 development began in Feb 2015• Stage 1 Scaling (infrastructure) to support national level solution• Stage 2 Development of Student Data Mart• Stage 3 Development of Student Portal and completion of infrastructure

scaling

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• Phase 3 Provides the ability to do pre degree audits prior to notifying DGIs

of file presence Status: Still in concept phase of development but

possible approaches are:• Develop degree audit functionality from scratch• Leverage existing software in the market that has already been developed for this

purpose

* Service provided at No Cost to Participating Institutions

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A landmark project to award tens of thousands of studentsthe degrees they earn, but don't have

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Project Funding Status

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Reverse Transfer Funding Total Project $4.2MM…$2MM raised thus far•Phase 1

• Course/Grade Data Exchange – $650,000 – Fully Funded• Infrastructure – $450,000 – Fully Funded

•Phase 2• Academic Record Data Mart - $983,850 - $905,810 Raised• Student Academic Portal - $973,850 - $0 Raised• SIS Integration API - $250,000 - $0 Raised• Infrastructure for Student Academic Portal - $850,00 - $0 Raised

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Funding Partners so far….

1) University of Texas – Austin

2) University of Wisconsin – Madison

3) University of Arizona

4) Ohio State University

5) Stanford University

6) University of Maryland – College Park

7) University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

8) University of Kansas

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Funding Partners Continued…

9) CWID Grantees in Missouri, Texas & Michigan

Missouri Dept. of Ed., UM Columbia, UT Austin & Lone Star College

System, Michigan Community College and University CWID Participants

10) Lumina Foundation

11) National Student Clearinghouse

Current Partner Commitments•Institutions $300,000•NSC $400,000•Foundations $1.3 Million

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Present

•Covers inter-state transfers•Can cover transfers to private institutions•Better informed performance based funding models•Better informed understanding of the correlation of and effect of federal and

state dollars on pathways to the workforce•Improved baseline analytics to help inform the progression story•Large reductions in work burdens to deliver a great first result to the benefit

of students and schools.

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•Enabling the education pathway continuum• Is it just about associates degrees?• 4 year school stop outs are being left out• Near completers• Pathways to the next transition

•Other areas of possible support through the platform• Veterans Eligibility and Certification• Accreditation• Outcomes research

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Questions?

Dave Pelham

[email protected]