Transfer Belongs in California's Promise
We bring students, educators, institutions, and community partners together to make transfer clearer, more connected, and more equitable across California.
OUR MISSION
California’s transfer future should be shaped by students, strengthened through collaboration, and built across boundaries.
Advancing learning mobility means rethinking how students move through their educational goals and ensuring that what they learn, and the units they earn, count wherever they go.
Transfer Nation California brings students, educators, advocates, and decision-makers together to share what works, challenge what doesn’t, and put new ideas into practice.
TRANSFER NATION CALIFORNIA IS SUPPORTED BY COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION AND ANCHORED BY TRANSFER NATION AND SOVA.
FEATURED STORY PROJECT
Making Good Work Travel Further
Across California, promising reforms, partnerships, and practices are taking shape to improve transfer and learning mobility. But too often, these efforts happen independently. We connect the dots, share what’s working, and help good ideas travel beyond the places where they began.
Amplify What's Working
We shine a light on the people, partnerships, and promising solutions advancing transfer and learning mobility across California.We shine a light on the people, partnerships, and promising solutions advancing transfer and learning mobility across California.
Connect People and Ideas
We connect students, educators, advocates, and policymakers so ideas, insights, and promising practices can travel across colleges, segments, and communities.
Champion Learning Mobility
We champion reforms and practices that recognize what students already know, value the learning they’ve earned, and help that learning count wherever they go.
FEATURED STORY PROJECT
Student Transfer Stories
What happens when students transfer from community college to a four-year college or university? What counts, what doesn’t, and what do they wish they’d known?
Through firsthand accounts, students share the decisions, setbacks, and support that shaped their experiences, revealing what’s at stake when credits do, and don’t, move with them.
Photo by Allison Shelley/Complete College Photo Library
LEARNING ADVISORY BOARD
Students Aren't Just Navigating California's Transfer System. They're Helping Change It.
Transfer students bring experiences, knowledge, and ideas that higher education needs. Our Learner Advisory Board puts that expertise to work, with paid student members helping shape Transfer Nation California’s strategy, questions, stories, and priorities.
They’re not just contributing perspectives. They’re helping decide what we do with them.
Look for their stories, research, and creative work later this year.
COMING SOON
Learner Mobility
The Learning Mobility Exchange California has many of the pieces of a learning mobility system already in place. But having the pieces isn’t the same as having a system. The Learning Mobility Exchange will bring together people, ideas, and promising practices from across the state, making it easier to learn from one another, share what’s working, and find opportunities to collaborate.
Look for the launch of the Learning Mobility Exchange and our first Learning Mobility Think Tank later this year.
THE TEAM
A Team Built for Connection
Transfer Nation California is supported by collaborators who bring experience across student support, teaching and learning, communications, research, and community partnership.
Starian Porchia
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Christine Flanagan
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Cheryl Aschenbach
FACULTY ADVISOR
Israah Ansari
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
LET'S CONNECT
Working on Transfer in California?
Tell us what your community is learning, where partnership could help, or how you would like to participate. We welcome conversations from every corner of the state.
