A Day in the Life of an Evaluation Specialist
Conference conversations around course credit evaluation and articulation happens at high levels. The experience of the people who do the work has not received as much attention. This session will discuss the ins and outs of the work that happens from the perspective of evaluators or evaluation specialists.
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A Simplified Transfer Process using TES + Transferology
Building, maintaining, and publicizing equivalencies has never been easier with Transferology and TES. Only CollegeSource’s TES, the Transfer Evaluation System, and Transferology, the nationwide student network, are backed by a database of more than 160 million course descriptions, 190,000 catalogs, and 25 million user-created equivalencies. Come see why millions of students are using Transferology and why institutions that have TES say they can’t live without it.
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AI in Higher Education: Empowering Enrollment and Student Success Part 2: Governance, Risk Mitigation, and More
Dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education with our session "AI in Higher Education: Empowering Enrollment and Student Success." This is a two-session journey to unravel the complexities of AI, shedding light on its capabilities and limitations while addressing the mixed feelings of excitement and skepticism that surround it. Session 2 will focus on governance, risk mitigation, and more.
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AI in Higher Education: Empowering Enrollment and Student Success Part 1: What is Possible?
Dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education with our session "AI in Higher Education: Empowering Enrollment and Student Success." This is a two-session journey to unravel the complexities of AI, shedding light on its capabilities and limitations while addressing the mixed feelings of excitement and skepticism that surround it. Session 1 will focus on what is possible.
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Ask The FERPA Experts
LeRoy Rooker, the nation's leading expert on FERPA and AACRAO Fellow, and the former director of the U.S. Department of Education Family Policy Compliance Office, along with Daniel Weber from Oakton College, will answer your questions regarding FERPA. Bring your FERPA question(s) to this interactive session so that your questions can be answered.
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Birds of a Feather Conversations: AI
Birds of a Feather Sessions are informal group gatherings about a specific topic of interest for attendees of the summit. We invite you to come discuss and make connections with other attendees, speakers, and summit coordinators about how your organization is being impacted about this topic while unwinding after a full day of technology and transfer content.
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Birds of a Feather Conversations: Leveraging Technology to Improve Transfer
Birds of a Feather Sessions are informal group gatherings about a specific topic of interest for attendees of the summit. We invite you to come discuss and make connections with other attendees, speakers, and summit coordinators about how your organization is being impacted about this topic while unwinding after a full day of technology and transfer content. This session will focus on discussions around leveraging technology to improve transfer success and student engagement.
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Birds of a Feather Conversations: Pathway Alignments
Birds of a Feather Sessions are informal group gatherings about a specific topic of interest for attendees of the summit. We invite you to come discuss and make connections with other attendees, speakers, and summit coordinators about how your organization is being impacted about this topic while unwinding after a full day of technology and transfer content. This session will focus on pathway alignments and recognizing transfer from technical credentials.
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Birds of a Feather Conversations: Project Management (Prioritization, Making Voice Heard etc.)
Birds of a Feather Sessions are informal group gatherings about a specific topic of interest for attendees of the summit. We invite you to come discuss and make connections with other attendees, speakers, and summit coordinators about how your organization is being impacted about this topic while unwinding after a full day of technology and transfer content. This session will focus on Project Management topics like prioritization and having your voice heard during implementation.
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Birds of a Feather Conversations: Transfer Recruitment for Unique Populations
Birds of a Feather Sessions are informal group gatherings about a specific topic of interest for attendees of the summit. We invite you to come discuss and make connections with other attendees, speakers, and summit coordinators about how your organization is being impacted about this topic while unwinding after a full day of technology and transfer content.
This session will focus on transfer recruitment for unique populations (i.e. adult learner, military, non traditional, international)
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Breaking Down Barriers for Transfer Student Success
ere at Academic Alliances at Arizona State University, we’re changing the way we work with community colleges to support students BEFORE they transfer through our innovative Universal Articulation Partnership and MyPath2ASU Pathway tools. Our data demonstrates that students who engage with our Pathway resources are prepared to experience a more seamless transfer, boasting higher first-term GPAs and better graduation rates compared to non-pathway students.
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Challenges and Success: The demonstration of AI technology in the transcription of credit.
Join us for an insightful presentation on streamlining transfer credit processing! Explore how AI technology is revolutionizing credit transcription while significantly reducing manual tasks. There will be a showcase of the successful implementation of AI through the DigiScript platform by Ktech. Learn best practices in the seamless integration of innovative tools.
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Closing Plenary: Can AI Help Us Advance Learning Mobility
Join Dr. Lara Couturier and Dr. Zachary A. Pardos for a keynote chat. This session will start by making the case for why learning mobility is critical for serving learners in the 21st Century, and then shift to a "fireside chat" between Lara and Zachary about whether and how AI can help postsecondary practitioners and leaders address some of the challenges to adopting and implementing a learning mobility agenda.
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Community College Roundtable
This is a roundtable designed to have community college colleagues come together to share innovations, ideas, and best practices. This roundtable is also space for community college professionals to share challenges and engage in collective solutions.
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Creating a Credit Mobility Culture: Three Small Ways to Create Momentum
An intentional focus on supporting the modern adult learner, who may have prior learning from multiple sources, requires creative solutions that meet student needs while supporting the institution’s mission. Starting small to build a credit mobility culture will help you break the inertia. Join us to explore ways you can create momentum at your institution, and learn more here: https://evolllution.com/creating-a-credit-mobility-culture-three-small-ways-to-create-momentum.
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Electronic Data Exchange 101: Understanding the Basics
Electronic Data Exchange includes not only PDF transcripts but other ways you can revolutionize your operation and enhance business continuity. EDX 101 will cover the basics of electronic data exchange, including the terminology, a brief history, the types of EDX, how EDX is being used, and some statistics on how institutions are using it. This session will prepare you to get the most out of the other related electronic data exchange sessions offered throughout the summit.
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Evolving the Learning and Employment Ecosystem in Higher Education
When higher education and industry align on skills, everyone wins. Learners achieve and demonstrate industry-needed skills, educators promote the value of their “brand” and back it with marketable outcomes (graduations, hires), and employers hire better-qualified employees and retain them longer. Why and how should US Higher Education get involved in new innovative credentials to support this vision? This session will explore the history and rationale for such involvement!
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Explore Electronic Transcript Solutions
A walk through of the process behind EDI and XML implementation and advice on the options and pitfalls of data and PDF transcript implementation and integration. This session provides a functional overview of how to implement EDI and XML, including finding resources and information to get started. Receive guidance from experts on data mapping, understanding end-to-end data flows, and integrating data and PDF exchange with the myriad higher education vendors and solutions available today.
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How Arizona State University is Breaking Down Barriers for Transfer Students
Here at Academic Alliances at Arizona State University, we’re changing the way we work with community colleges to support students BEFORE they transfer through our innovative Universal Articulation Partnership and MyPath2ASU Pathway tools. Our data demonstrates that students who engage with our Pathway resources are prepared to experience a more seamless transfer, boasting higher first-term GPAs and better graduation rates compared to non-pathway students.
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Innovative Digtial Credentials: An Introduction and "Ask Me Anything"
Innovative digital credentials are new forms of educational or professional recognition and differ from traditional academic degrees. They focus on specific skills or knowledge in specific areas and are used to verify competency in various fields. Many institutions are either adopting, or investigating adoption, of these new credentials. If you are relatively new to innovative credentials and want an opportunity to discuss further, this roundtable is for you!
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Keynote Panel - A Product Conversation on Learning Mobility with Student Information System Partners
A critical component to improve learning mobility and help solve for the credential attainment gap is working with our technology partners that provide solutions to support the learner journey. In this panel conversation, we will bring together product leaders from some of the key Student Information System providers to discuss how they are approaching technology transformations, supporting growing transfer credit requirements, and solving for the challenges that are facing higher education related to enhancing learning mobility.
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Keynote Speaker - Goldilocks and the 3 Bears: Getting Learning Right!
'Awww, just right', said Goldilocks after trying out the others. There is a sense of ease and peace that comes from getting learning right. It's not just about one thing but about everything. It's more than access and credit, affordability, and cost, who and what, mobility and ROI, online or hybrid, transfers and natives, students, and learners. It's learning anywhere, anytime, for everyone, for which the planning was yesterday and today it's about the doing. Tomorrow, we measure, 'did we get it right?' Who matters what outcomes tell that story well.
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Leveraging Curricular Management Software to Support Student Success Goals
Student success is the driving force behind higher education. This umbrella includes big goals like student self-efficacy, on-time degree completion, career placement, and more. How can you leverage your catalog, curriculum, and registration processes to address these objectives? Join us for this exciting dive into student-centered practices with CourseLeaf.
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Mapping the Transfer Divide: California University Education Deserts and Transfer Success
Community college is a gateway to higher education for many, but Latinx and low-income students face transfer barriers. Though millions enroll in California each year, only a small percentage transfer within six years. Research shows university proximity is crucial, impacting transfer especially for minoritized and low-income students. This session explores how distance hinders transfer-motivated students and will offer solutions for rural communities to improve transfer rates.
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Meeting Students Where They Are; Getting Them Where They Want to Be
Learn how you can better recruit, retain, and graduate students by implementing transfer and degree achievement products from CollegeSource. The CollegeSource Solution includes stackable recruiting, transfer, degree audit, and academic planning tools (Transferology, TES, and uAchieve) that work together to help you meet students wherever they fall on the education life cycle and shepherd them to graduation…and beyond.
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Microsoft Power Apps and Flows: Investing in a transformative system to manage institutional processes and initiatives.
This session will provide insights to one University’s innovative approach to the integration of Microsoft Power Apps and Flows technology to enhance and improve a unique university program lifecycle (UPL) process. Creating a simplified process providing a framework for other institutional initiatives. Gain insights on the capabilities and flexibility Power Apps can serve with program portfolio management, management of workflows, process improvement, and data repository.
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Opening Plenary Panel: Diverse Perspectives on Fostering Learning Mobility Receptive Cultures
Solving for the issues and concerns around 40+ million learners with some college credit but no credential will take a multi-faceted effort between stakeholders within institutions that go beyond just technology or transfer solutions alone. To help reverse this trend, institutions and higher education adjacent entities must come together to establish learning mobility receptive cultures that weave the importance of recognizing learning in all forms into the end-to-end student journey. An expert panel from transfer practitioner, administrator, technology, and research perspectives will share their thoughts on what is needed to establish these types of cultures on campus and expand ways we can think about solutions to solve for the credential gap problem.
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Optimizing Transfer Credit Evaluation with a Free and Open-Source Web Application Framework
A web application built with free and open source software can streamline transfer credit evaluation processes, maximizing transparency for stakeholders while increasing control for managers. Learn about Georgia Tech's new web app that collects students' information, facilitates faculty members' credit articulation processes, and organizes staff members' tasks. This session provides a case study in leveraging foundational web technology and gives insight into an open-source framework: Symfony.
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Overlooked: Early College Transfers at the Four-Year Institution
Are early college students overlooked on your campus? What challenges face them when they enroll and transfer credits? That is what ECU set out to find by surveying current students on campus in the Fall of 2023 who attended an early college before enrolling in our university. This session will showcase the surprising results of our student voices and raise awareness of the un-freedoms facing this stealth transfer population. Spoiler alert: the students aren't "alright."
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Regionally or Nationally Accredited: Is Your Institution Still Using Those Terms?
The U.S. Department of Education removed the regional and national accreditation designations in 2019. The rule became effective July 1, 2020. The USDOE refers to accrediting agencies as “Nationally Recognized”. Scrolling through many institutions transfer information, you can still find reference to only accepting transfer credit from regionally accredited schools. Almost four years after the rule change it's time to talk about it and update language. What's the best language to use?
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