National Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive

Minneapolis College joins 29 other community college and four-year institutional teams from across the country to accelerate transfer reform.

Nearly two years into the pandemic, community colleges and four-year colleges and universities across the country face an imperative to ensure students from communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can access, persist through, and realize their higher education aspirations. This year, Minneapolis College embraced the challenge by coming together with Metropolitan State University to accelerate transfer reform as a part of the Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive. 

The Intensive, funded with the generous support of Ascendium Education Philanthropy, will span the next year, through October 2022. Teams will receive one-on-one consulting with experts and work to identify, collect, understand and utilize critical transfer outcomes and equity data. As part of this community of practice, teams will attend monthly sessions focused on co-creating practices and policies to improve transfer student success and equity.

According to Minneapolis College Dean of Enrollment Management Heidi Aldes, “we want all of our students to have a seamless opportunity to complete their bachelor’s degree. This transfer-intensive opportunity allows Minneapolis College and Metro State to collaborate in building a student-centered transfer experience.”

Minneapolis College will join 67 of their peers in this effort, selected from an applicant pool of 97 institutions and 3 systems from 25 states. Together, these cohorts account for a total enrollment of nearly a million undergraduate students, offering the promise of significant impact.

For Minneapolis College, participation in the Transfer Student Success Intensive represents an important extension of efforts to increase community college transfer and bachelor’s degree attainment. 

For a full list of institutions selected for the first two cohorts of the Transfer Student Success Intensive and details about the initiative, visit the Aspen Institute webpage.