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

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

3. 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!

4. 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 ed 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

8. Tools for Advisors
Contact Information
For general questions:
Reverse Transfer:
Tonya Ervin,
Christi Harkins,