National Association of College Admissions Counselors
A professional organization for admissions and enrollment managers that also organizes college fairs.
The Transfer Playbook
This playbook is a practical guide to designing and implementing a key set of practices that will help community colleges and their four-year college partners improve transfer outcomes.
Reimagining Transfer for Student Success
The final report of the Task Force, Reimagining Transfer for Student Success, includes a call to action from college and university presidents and chancellors to their peers to improve the transfer of credit policies and practices to better serve students by decreasing the cost and time to a degree.
Tackling Transfer
In an effort to improve transfer student success, the Aspen Institute, CCRC, Public Agenda, and SOVA have released this implementation guide designed to help state entities organize workshops within which teams from two- and four-year institutions work together to improve transfer and graduation outcomes for their students.
Knowing Our Students
New from ASN core partner Achieving the Dream, comes a guidebook designed for institutional leaders and student success teams who are ready to talk openly about the students they serve and who are eager to learn practical strategies from national experts and peer institutions.
(Mis)Understanding Students
(Mis)Understanding Students, updated in 2022, is a resource from the Advising Success Network and NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education which offers resources and questions to consider for institutional leaders looking to reflect on their unique student population.
Transfer Tea
AACRAOs podcast on transfer.
Transfer Nation Talks
TransferNation's podcast on transfer issues and transfer professionals.
One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees provides critical support to help empower hundreds of community college students to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
Fostering Transfer Student Success
Addresses the complexities of the transfer process in higher education by providing strategies for strategic planning, curricular innovations, and outreach that emphasize collaboration and relational support to improve outcomes for transfer students, particularly those from vulnerable backgrounds.
New Research Fostering Transfer Student Success
Contemporary research and best practices aimed at improving the transfer experience for students, highlighting innovative strategies that foster academic and social integration across two-year and four-year institutions.
America’s Hidden Economic Engines
Five in-depth case studies reveal the innovative practices that position U.S. community colleges as pathways to quality employment.
What Excellent Community Colleges Do
Josh Wyner identifies community college practices that align with four domains of excellence: degree completion, equity, student learning, and labor market success.
Discredited: Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer
An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform.
Transformational Change in Community Colleges
A comprehensive framework for implementing equity-focused change in higher education by integrating practical applications of Kotter’s Eight-Stage Process and the AACC’s Leadership Competencies, emphasizing the complex and non-linear nature of change within diverse institutional contexts.
Redesigning America’s Community Colleges
Offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.
The American Community College
A comprehensive analysis of community colleges in the United States―updated with the latest research.
Community College is College
This book advocates for the destigmatization of community colleges by examining the purpose, mission, and scope of community college education.
Community College and Beyond
Explores the Latina/o/x student experience and the persistent transfer disparity among Latina/o/x community college students and continues to widen for those seeking to complete their baccalaureate degree.
Ensuring Success for Students Who Transfer
This publication presents evidence-driven career development and professional readiness being infused at various universities and organizations to offset the imperceptible career voice in current transfer literature.
The Impact of a Sense of Belonging in College
This book explores the relationship between a sense of belonging and the intersectionality of student identity and how to integrate this into any approach to fostering belonging.
Relationship Rich Education
Although not specifically about transfer, the book is incredibly relevant to the transfer community and best practices.
Building Transfer Student Pathways
Offers insight into institutional and statewide partnerships that create clearly defined pathways to college graduation and career success for all students.
Beyond Free College
Outlines a national agenda that builds on the best of US higher education’s populist history, such as the G.I. Bill and the community college transfer function.
On My Own
Research-based and provides a detailed, on-the-ground examination of the difficult paths—curricular, interpersonal, and institutional—that students must chart through community college, particularly for STEM students.
The Transfer Experience
Brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer
Power to the Transfer
Aims to provide direction toward the development and maintenance of a transfer-receptive culture using Critical Race Theory as a framework.
