Reverse Transfer Made Easy: The Four-Year Perspective Tonya Ervin, Program Coordinator, Office of the University Registrar

Topics Wrangling reverse transfer is not unlike trying to hold onto squirming cats. No cats were harmed in the production of this presentation.

Option 2 is what we do with Columbus State! Who are we? OSU has handled Reverse Transfer a couple of ways: The two-year institution provides us with a list of potential students; OR OSU provides two-year institutions with a list of potential students Option 2 is what we do with Columbus State!

The OSU-generated Process What is Transfer Credit? The OSU-generated Process OESAR produces a list of current students who meet the ODHE criteria for Credit When It’s Due Students are emailed to seek their permission to release their transcript to CSCC (about 2 weeks) After two weeks, the database closes and the consenting students are pulled into a spreadsheet/transcript request template The request template is sent to Credentials and transcripts are sent to CSCC The template is also shared with CSCC so they know how many students to expect

The OSU-generated Process Continued What is Transfer Credit? The OSU-generated Process Continued From our perspective, it’s all over but the waiting… Once we submit the transcripts to Credentials, we wait to hear back from CSCC about which students earned a degree When we have that information, we enter the degree earned into our SIS so the student will not be pulled into the eligibility file in the future The process starts all over again the next semester

What about the National Student Clearinghouse? What is Transfer Credit? What about the National Student Clearinghouse? The process with the NSC is similar to what we have done with CSCC: four-year institutions provide the two-year institutions with potentially eligible students The biggest difference is that the NSC transmits course data – NOT transcripts – and it is in pipe delimited format Exchanges through the NSC between two-year and four-year institutions are supposed to improve data accuracy

What is Transfer Credit? Challenges The timing can be off: students may be enrolled in the course they need to graduate the term their transcript is sent. Tracking and sending one-off transcripts for late-responding students (or students who need an updated transcript sent once grades have posted)

Tools for Advisors Contact Information For general questions: ESUE-TransferCreditCenter@osu.edu Reverse Transfer: Tonya Ervin, Ervin.183@osu.edu Christi Harkins, Harkins.65@osu.edu