International Institute Transfer Credit Workshop
Navigating the complexities of international transfer credit is an essential skill for today’s higher education professionals. This workshop offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of evaluating international education records for potential transfer credit. In addition to an in-depth exploration of international transfer credit practices, this workshop provides country-specific best practices for evaluating records from the U.K., Europe, India, and the Subcontinent.
Session Day: Saturday, 7/19/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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- Pre-Conference Workshop
From Barriers to Bridges: The Transformative Impact of the New England Transfer Guarantee
Learn about the New England Board of Higher Education's regional initiative, the New England Transfer Guarantee, and how it has contributed to student success by eliminating barriers to degree completion and mitigating credit loss. Presenters will explore key findings from student-level data analysis, gesturing to the impressive academic performance of Guarantee students both pre- and post-transfer as well as the low rate of withdrawal among students who transfer through this initiative.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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- Breakout Session
Optimizing Transfer Credit Evaluation: Leveraging Technology to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Processing Time
The transfer credit evaluation process is vital but often inefficient due to complex policies and systems. This session highlights how Old Dominion University has successfully integrated technology to streamline evaluations. ODU will share tools, workflows, and lessons learned, while inviting participants to discuss challenges, best practices, and innovations. Topics include automation, data integration, and improving the student experience through technology.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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- Roundtable Session
Leading with Intention: Building a Culture of Creative Leadership in Transfer Admissions
At Towson University, transfer admissions leadership is rooted in adaptability, creativity, and people-first strategies. This session explores how a learner-centered, values-based approach—combined with team development and change management—can empower staff at all levels to lead, support learning mobility, and achieve institutional goals. Learn how TU builds a resilient, high-performing team to navigate the complexities of transfer student success.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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Award Transfer Credit Faster with Course Data on Demand
Whether you need to license course data for articulation or just need to find courses for evaluation, DegreeData makes transfer easier. We use AI to mine our library of catalogs and parse courses to structured data. Coverage is national and includes deep archives for each insitution.
Come learn about DegreeData and the future of course and curriculum research.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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- Corporate Presentation
Modernizing Transcript Processing: Automating Data Extraction for Admissions, Transfer, & Beyond
Manual transcript entry and credit evaluation are slowing down admissions, frustrating staff, and delaying student decisions. In this session, see a live demo of Freedom - a customizable, intelligent OCR solution purpose-built for higher ed. Discover how institutions are automating transcript intake and transfer credit workflows, eliminating manual data entry, increasing accuracy, and accelerating processing with seamless SIS integration and real-time results.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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- Corporate Presentation
Not Your Average Pathways Project- A Systemwide Approach to Streamlining Transfer
16 universities, 58 community colleges, & 1,400+ Transfer Guides: Dive into our system-wide approach to creating transfer tools that help students maximize time at community colleges & easily compare transfer options across the state. Learn how the UNC System leveraged technology & collaboration to develop a uniform Transfer Guide design, used by all UNC institutions, to provide students with recommended community college courses that fulfill associate degree & university major requirements.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Requisites for Success: The Journey to Implementing Automated Requirement Checking
Prior to Spring 2023, the University at Albany did not have a systematic business process for requisite checking. Learn how we turned this challenge into an opportunity for a campus-wide technology implementation, got buy-in from academic departments to overhaul course requisites and transfer equivalencies, and partnered with administration to establish a sustainable, student-centered business practice that supports success, especially for transfer students.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Establishing a Credit / Learning Mobility Position
Many institutions have a dedicated transfer position; but what does it mean, and how do you morph, into a position that focuses on credit and learning mobility? This session will include an exploration of job descriptions, titles, functions and more; and then lead into a conversation about how to refocus or expand the traditional transfer role into one that emphasizes credit and learning mobility.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Strengthening Transfer Partnerships through Collaboration between Enrollment Management and Undergraduate Education
The Enrollment Management Transfer team at the University of Buffalo, in collaboration with Undergraduate Education, has taken a proactive approach to enhance transfer partnerships. Through innovative programming, embedded advising, and streamlined articulation agreements, this partnership has resulted in improved transfer pathways, increased enrollment, and stronger support for transfer students.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Infuse: Empowering Institutions, Enabling Learners Through Equitable Credential Access
As the HE landscapes evolves to meet workforce demands, institutions must modernize their credentialing systems to align with learner mobility, employer expectations, and public purpose. Infuse is a collaborative initiative to lower barriers in the digital credentialing ecosystem by providing an interoperable, AI-powered infrastructure. In this session, learn how Infuse aims to streamline the transition to verifiable, skills-aligned LERs, especially for under-resourced institutions and learners.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Automating Transfer Transcript Processing at Vanderbilt University
Searching for a proven transcript data extraction solution that integrates with your SIS, CRM, or other IT systems? Join Molly Thompson, Deputy University Registrar at Vanderbilt University, as she shares how Parchment Data Automation is helping her team save time and turn around transfer credit evaluations faster. See a demonstration and discover how network-wide machine learning from converting millions of transcripts to data can help your team maximize efficiency.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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- Corporate Presentation
Connecting the Dots: Strengthening Transfer Credit Practices Through Collaboration and Transparency from a Registrar's Perspective
This presentation will explore the registrar's journey at the University of Pittsburgh on how to build transfer connections, streamline daily processes, and bridge transfer gaps within a complex and decentralized academic community. Pitt will also share some collaborative ways for engagement efforts across the university, establish a unified and streamline process to review and publish university course equivalencies, and support movement in university transfer credit initiatives.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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- Breakout Session
Learning Mobility: Postsecondary Roles, Barriers, and Opportunities
This dynamic, high-level conversation will explore the role postsecondary education plays in removing barriers and creating opportunities for learners, earners and employers. Using the LER Principles and a Learning Mobility Framework as touchpoints, panelists will spotlight institutions and with innovative credential pathways connected to employment, and outline broad technical assistance needed to support this work at scale. Time will be preserved for audience comments, insights and questions.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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- Breakout Session
From Paper to Purpose: Transforming Registrar Processes for Student-Centered Success
Say goodbye to PDF ping-pong and hello to streamlined service. Learn how George Mason's Registrar team used Dynamic Forms and Ellucian Workflow to digitize student processes—pulling in data automatically, routing requests intelligently, and updating records seamlessly. Walk through lessons learned in change management, cross-campus collaboration, and designing with students, approvers, and processors in mind for a truly student-centered transformation.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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- Breakout Session
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 conference.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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- Breakout Session
Enhancing Transfer Transparency with TES and Transferology
Building, maintaining, and publicizing transfer equivalencies has never been easier with TES and Transferology. Only CollegeSource’s TES, the Transfer Evaluation System, and Transferology, the nationwide student network, are backed by a database of over 167 million course descriptions, nearly 200,000 cover-to-cover catalogs, and 34 million user-created equivalencies. Learn why millions of students use Transferology, why institutions say TES is indispensable, and how these solutions help.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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- Corporate Presentation
A Collaborative Approach to Pre-Transfer Advising: Building a Bridge from Admission to Academics
Many institutions do not have the support for standalone pre-transfer advising services. Our admissions staff saw a need for access to earlier advising to help students understand the complexities of transferring. By connecting admitted students with advisors in the School of Business after decision notification, rather than making them wait until orientation, students are able to make a more informed decision about accepting their admission. This session will cover the process that was created.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Breakout Session
Supporting Black Student Transfer Success Through a Greater Understanding of Their Transfer Journeys
The presentation will share new findings from the African American Transfer Tipping Point research initiative, which leveraged data from a statewide survey of >7,000 transfer-intending African American/Black students to lift up their experiences and perspectives. We will share what students said was the moment they knew they'd be successful in their goal of transfer and offer recommendations for colleges, districts, and systems looking to improve African American/Black student transfer success.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Breakout Session
Transfer Explorer: A National Credit Mobility Solution
We will explore how Lander University, non-profit ITHAKA, and non-profit DXtera Institute have collaborated on the design and launch of Transfer Explorer, a new national credit mobility technology. Transfer Explorer reflects what exists within source SIS and degree audit systems to show how credits transfer and apply toward degree programs. We will discuss successes and challenges in implementing this new technology, and how the project has led to improvements in student facing and business processes.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Breakout Session
Modernizing the SIS: Guiding Principles to Power Learning Mobility
Explore AACRAO's Technical Advisory Council's guiding principles for SIS modernization. Learn how institutions and vendors can align systems to support learning mobility, credential interoperability, and learner-centered design. This session provides practical insight into building the SIS of the future.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Breakout Session
Leading with Equity: Building Institutional Change for Transfer Student Success
The Student Success Task Force uncovered data revealing a gap among first-generation and historically minoritized transfer students' persistence and graduation rates. In response, a cross-campus collaboration designed actionable, equity-driven strategies that reimagine the transfer student experience from onboarding through graduation. This session will share our process, from analyzing institutional and national data to building leadership buy-in and mobilizing staff and faculty across silos.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Breakout Session
Streamlining Academic Records with the National Student Clearinghouse
This session provides a comprehensive overview of third-party ordering transcript services, Slate Integration and Student Tracker offered by the National Student Clearinghouse. Participants will gain insight into how institutions can securely and efficiently request student records along with more efficient avenues to receive transcripts. This session will equip attendees with the tools and knowledge to optimize their use of NSC services.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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- Corporate Presentation
Sunday Opening Plenary Panel: Navigating the Transfer Landscape: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Mobility
Learning mobility is a shared endeavor that transcends institutional silos, requiring collaboration among academic leaders, registrars, transfer professionals, technologists, and policy advocates. This plenary panel brings together representatives from key higher education associations to explore how diverse perspectives and coordinated action can remove barriers and empower all learners to move fluidly across educational experiences. Panelists will share insights on policy, practice, and innovation—and offer this compelling call to action: improving learning mobility is not the job of one sector, but our collective responsibility.
Session Day: Sunday, 7/20/2025
Session Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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- Plenary Session
Dissertation Findings: Establishing a Transfer Center at a Four-Year Public Institution
This session will discuss the findings from "If You Build It... A Multi-Institutional Case Study Analysis Exploring the Establishment of a Transfer Center at Four-Year Public Institutions." The research examined how institutions go through the decision-making process to establish or design a transfer center, specifically focusing on organizational support and structure. We will review the results of the study and explore the best practices and models that emerged from the data.
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Electronic Data Exchange: Case Studies
Are you looking to implement Electronic Data Exchange at your campus or in your state? Are you trying to gather more intel on the benefits, efficiencies, tips and tricks from folks who have walked that road before you? Come hear from several presenters about their journey and learn from their experiences!
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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- Lightning Session
Accelerating LER Adoption: Overcoming Challenges and Barriers
The LER Accelerator coalition—launched in 2024 with support from Walmart—is helping institutions advance Learning and Employment Record (LER) adoption. This session explores how cohort institutions are tackling implementation challenges and showcases strategies, tools, and resources that support scalable, learner-centered credentialing.
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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- Lightning Session
Reframing Transfer Student Success
This session explores how institutions can better support transfer students by recognizing the inherent strengths they already possess. Grounded in Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth, we’ll examine strategies to shift from deficit-based to asset-based practices that honor students’ lived experiences and cultural capital, enhancing recruitment, engagement, and retention across all transfer pathways.
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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- Breakout Session
Transfer Pathways - Implementing Creative Change
Recent data indicates that most community college students aspire to earn a bachelor’s degree, but after 6 years, only about 16% succeed. Data shows that bachelor’s degree completion for students with an associate degree before transfer is 25% higher.
Learn how we introduced transfer pathways to the curriculum. Discover the steps taken to create non-occupational degree transfer pathways, how we implemented institutional changes, and established new 3+1 & 2+2 transfer pathways partnerships.
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
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- Breakout Session
International Transfer Credit: Central Asia - Russia and Uzbekistan
Understanding the fundamentals of how to calculate potential transfer credit from Central Asia is a must for those working in the world of transfer credit. From traditional international students who have short or incomplete programs, to non-traditional domestic students who have older incomplete records from Central Asia wishing to enter the workforce and need validation, transfer credit professionals should add these tools to their transfer credit tool box.
Session Day: Monday, 7/21/2025
Session Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
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- Breakout Session
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