NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE REVERSE TRANSFER PROJECT AN AUTOMATED

NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE REVERSE TRANSFER PROJECT: AN AUTOMATED, NATIONAL ACADEMIC DATA SHARING PLATFORM W. David Pelham, Ed. D. Managing Director, Reverse Transfer and Military Initiatives

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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT How NSC Became Involved with Reverse Transfer

NSC REVERSE PROJECT • • 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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Policy Objectives 1) 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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT How many students could RT potentially impact?

NSC REVERSE PROJECT

NSC REVERSE PROJECT 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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT 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, The. Upshot, NYT, Aug. 31, 2015

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Less 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 The. Upshot, NYT, August 31, 2015)

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Reverse Transfer Project Overview

NSC REVERSE PROJECT 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 •

NSC REVERSE PROJECT • 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

A landmark project to award tens of thousands of students the degrees they earn, but don't have Copyright © 2015, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Project Funding Status

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Reverse Transfer Funding Total Project $4. 2 MM…$2 MM 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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Funding Partners so far…. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) University of Texas – Austin University of Wisconsin – Madison University of Arizona Ohio State University Stanford University of Maryland – College Park University of Minnesota – Twin Cities University of Kansas

NSC REVERSE PROJECT 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

NSC REVERSE PROJECT 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.

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Future • 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 •

NSC REVERSE PROJECT Questions? Dave Pelham pelham@studentclearinghouse. org