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Most colleges and universities aim to put students first, but many have baked-in financial disincentives that work against transfer and credit mobility. In a recent national poll of adult Americans by Public Agenda and Sova, 4 in 10 respondents report attempting to transfer credit. Of these, 16% abandoned their postsecondary plans because the process of transferring credit was too difficult.

While restrictive and rejective credit transfer policies may produce short-term financial returns for institutions, they hurt learners at scale and harm institutional bottom lines and reputations in the long run.

Join the first of a two-part webcast series on shifting away from a mindset against credit mobility toward one that supports credit applicability—and success for all learners.

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Wednesday, April 30, at 2 p.m. E.T.

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PANELISTS

Alexandra W. Logue
Professor Emerita at The City University of New York Graduate Center

Alexandra W. Logue is an internationally known behavioral scientist and higher education leader. She began her academic career at Stony Brook University as a faculty member and then chair of the psychology department, later serving as dean at Baruch College, provost at NYIT, chief academic officer (executive vice chancellor and university provost) of the CUNY system, research professor and now professor emerita at the CUNY graduate center. Dr. Logue has authored around 200 publications on higher education, choice behavior and food aversions and preferences. Her current work focuses on student success, especially math remediation and student transfer. She led a groundbreaking randomized controlled trial of corequisite math remediation. Her most recent book, Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York (Princeton University Press), examines transfer policy reform and the difficulty of making change in higher education. Her research has been supported by nearly 20 federal and foundation funders. A Fellow of the APA, APS, AAAS and the Psychonomic Society, she received the APA’s Hake Award for excellence in bridging basic and applied research. Dr. Logue earned her A.B. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University.

Aisha N. Lowe
Associate Vice Chancellor for Planning, Research & Institutional Effectiveness at Los Rios Community College District

Aisha N. Lowe is a passionate educator who has dedicated her life to improving education for all students and communities. She returned to the Los Rios Community College District in 2024, after serving in executive leadership roles in the California Community Colleges (CCC) chancellor’s office since 2020. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Lowe has worked with at-risk youth, taught middle school, led educational research and policy efforts, instructed college students and served as a higher education administrator. In her most recent role as executive vice chancellor for the Office of Equitable Student Learning, Experience and Impact, she led academic affairs, student services and workforce & economic development for the CCC system’s 116 colleges and 1.8 million students, overseeing over $3 billion in funding and numerous statewide programs and initiatives. She also served as the system’s vice chancellor of educational services and supports, leading initiatives in curriculum, equity, enrollment and retention, as well as innovations in teaching and learning. Prior to her work at the CCC system, Dr. Lowe has held faculty and dean roles at William Jessup University and has taught for eight years across the Los Rios Community College District, Sierra College and CSU Sacramento. She holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University, where she also earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Her research focuses on effective strategies for educating students of color and helping faculty create classroom environments of acceptance and belonging to fully support the whole student and maximize their academic outcomes. Dr. Lowe has been a featured speaker at various conferences and for faculty professional development programs nationally.

Andrew J. Seligsohn
President at Public Agenda

Andrew J. Seligsohn, Ph.D., is president of Public Agenda, bringing years of leadership in education and civic engagement. Before joining in 2021, Seligsohn was president of Campus Compact, and served as associate chancellor for civic engagement and strategic planning at Rutgers University–Camden. In that role, he worked across the campus to develop the university’s engagement infrastructure to maximize community impact and student learning. Seligsohn also served as director of civic engagement learning in the Pace Center at Princeton University, and as a faculty member in the department of political science at Hartwick College, where he earned tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor and was the elected chair of the faculty. Seligsohn also taught at both Princeton and Rutgers, and he has published articles and chapters on constitutional law, political theory, urban politics and youth civic engagement. Seligsohn holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in modern intellectual history from Williams College.

Joshua Kim
Assistant Provost for Online Learning Strategy at Dartmouth College

Dr. Joshua Kim is the assistant provost for online learning strategy at Dartmouth and a senior fellow at Georgetown University. Josh has a Ph.D. in sociology and demography from Brown University. He started his career on the faculty at West Virginia University, helped start Britannica.com's education division in San Francisco and was one of the original founders of Quinnipiac University Online. Josh’s published books include, Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education and The Low-Density University: 15 Scenarios for Higher Education. Both books are from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press, and both came out in 2020. His latest co-authored JHU book, Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience and Adaptability in Higher Education, was published in December of 2024. Josh is best known for his Learning Innovation blog on InsideHigherEd.com, a website that receives over 1.9 million monthly visitors. Josh and his wife Julie, a pediatric oncologist at Dartmouth, live in Hanover, NH. They have two adult daughters.

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Join the second of a two-part webcast series on supporting transfer and credit mobility, with a focus on reimagining institutional finance to support credit applicability.