TransferBOOST: The goals of the Catalyzing Transfer Initiative

For every 100 students who enroll in community colleges, 31 students transfer to a four-year institution. Of those, only 14 complete a bachelor’s degree within six years. Too many students are derailed from their higher education goals by unexpected, unaffordable, and untenable-yet solvable-challenges along their transfer journey.
Recognizing the need for clear supports and equitable pathways to complete a degree across multiple institutions, IHEP partnered with HCM Strategists to ensure transfer policy and practice meet the needs of today’s students, to elevate transfer commitments, and to reach students with simple, clear messaging about affordable transfer pathways.
TransferBOOST (Bachelor’s Opportunity Options that are Straightforward and Transparent) is a multi-year state-level initiative that is part of ECMC Foundation’s Catalyzing Transfer Initiative (CTI), a national shared learning and collaboration effort between high-impact non-profit organizations that aims to build, manage, and activate new ways to increase successful transfer of postsecondary credits and timely bachelor’s degree completion among marginalized racial and ethnic groups.
Hear more from IHEP's Katelyn DiBenedetto and representatives from the other four CTI grantees working at over 100 higher ed institutions in 33 states.