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More than half of U.S. adults who’ve tried to transfer college credit lose some or all of it, according to a survey by Sova and Public Agenda. This not only harms students’ chances at completing a bachelor’s degree, it damages institutional reputations and trust in higher education: In the same survey, respondents who attempted transfer were more likely to feel colleges cared more about making money than serving students. But rather than accept credit loss as an inevitable lose-lose situation, change-minded institutions and researchers are taking a proactive stance.

Join this session to learn how researchers, community colleges and universities are addressing the credit-loss trap and developing new standards, metrics and tools to improve credit applicability and student completion.

This webcast is part one of a two-part series on modernizing transfer, exploring credit loss, its impact on learners and strategies to improve transfer outcomes.

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Tuesday, January 27, at 2 p.m. E.T.

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PANELISTS

Dr. Lauren Schudde
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin

Rose Rojas
District Director at Maricopa Community Colleges

Dr. Janie Valdes
Assistant Vice President at Florida International University

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.

MODERATOR

Dr. Zach Pardos
Associate Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley

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Examine how the learning evaluation process works and how to evolve policy and practice to meet the changing needs of learners and institutions.