2022 IU Transfer Action Caucus 21 x 21 = Students + Credit
IU campuses, via the University Transfer Office, are continually engaged in responding to IU's 21 Transfer Friendly Standards in 2021. After last year's successful Transfer Action Caucus, we are embarking on a new Caucus to carry this important work to the next level.
"Transfer of credit plays a significant role in student recruitment, success and completion, so it takes a village to make things easy, transparent and equitable. ... Change must be an internal process, and partnerships must be coupled with transparency for our students to feel accepted, and have their credits accepted and applied."
With the impact of the pandemic, an enrollment crisis, and a recurring need to pivot fast we musttake action.Pioneering a bold plan to fully activate IUs 21 transfer friendly standards in 8 weeks, IUs Transfer Action Caucus (TAC) is dedicated to solving critical issues impacting transfer vital for student success. The TAC brings together delegated campus representatives, charged with decision making powers, through workgroup consultation, to take immediate action on metrics and consistency for transfer.The TAC willreview the past, audit progress, chart action, implement changes, define benchmarks, and track measurable outcomes.
The Roadmap
Week 1 (April 7): Strategic Doing - 8-week structure, 21 standards, 91 recommendations from TAC21, Establish new workgroups, New items for action [Leadership Summary Document, Week 1]
Week 2 (April 14): Benchmarking - Report on Key Perfomance Indicators (KPI), Mind map reporting, Mind map results on 21 standards, Review of weeks 3-6 activities [Leadership Summary Document, Week 2]
The University Transfer Office is leading a transfer action caucus, mapped over eight (8) weeks, designed to respond to the 21 standards of transfer friendliness adopted by IU. The framework of the caucus is 21by21 – addressing the 21 standards in 2021 with a focus on Students + Credit. Campuses were asked to respond to 21 transfer friendly standards by marking the standard as met, in-progress, or not-met. Early results show 60% of standards are met. Standards were cast into four working themes: 1) Infrastructure and handoffs, 2) data and tracking, 3) rules/systems & communications, and 4) policies. Throughout the eight-week process, campus transfer representatives with support from IUIA, UES, OOE and UTO meet weekly to discuss leaks in the pipeline, best practices, benchmarks, and next step decisions aimed at consistency, accuracy and authority, transparency, and promptness. To learn more or get answers to caucus related questions contact UTO at uto@iu.edu.
The Action Caucus is focused on immediate actions to fully activate the 21 standards and related results. To accomplish this vision TAC members have been appointed by the leadership of each respective campus.
University Administration
(Chair) Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Assistant Vice President for University Academic Policy, and Director of the University Transfer Office (cgentleg@iu.edu)
Donneisha Baker, Transfer Enrollment and Articulations Manager, University Academic Policy and University Transfer Office (donsquir@iu.edu)
Brian Ornelas, Transfer Manager, University Transfer Office (bornelas@iu.edu)
Dan McDevitt, Director of Admissions Shared Services, University Student Services & Systems (dmcdevit@iu.edu)
Whitnie Shay, Director of Enrollment Management & Student Services, Office of Online Education (wshay@iu.edu)
Oniffe Grizzle, Assistant Director for Regional Campus Institutional Research, Institutional Compliance & Reporting (ogrizzle@iu.edu)
Mike Beam, Assistant Vice President for School Partnerships, and Senior Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Bloomington
Sacha Thieme Arterberry, Assistant Vice Provost & Executive Director of Admissions (sthieme@iu.edu)
IU Indianapolis
Stephanie Lovett, Senior Assistant Director for Strategic Operations,Office of Undergraduate Admissions (smroe@iu.edu)
Scott McIntyre, Director of Enrollment Management, IU Columbus(samcinty@iu.edu)
Dave Chappell, Director of Enrollment Management, Indiana University Fort Wayne (dachapp@iu.edu)
East
TJ Rivard, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (trivard@iu.edu)
Kokomo
Christina Downey, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Student Success (downeyca@iu.edu)
Northwest
Kathy Spicer, Admissions Counselor and Transfer Specialist (kmspicer@iu.edu)
South Bend
Raman Adaikkalavan, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Informatics (radaikka@iu.edu)
Southeast
Donna Dahlgren, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (ddahlgre@iu.edu)
The Action Caucus is focused on immediate actions to fully activate the 21 standards and related results. To accomplish this vision TAC members
Must have been appointed by their respective campus leadership
Must be acknowledge as the person to facilitate transfer decision making on their campus
Must have established a supporting workgroup with whom to consult to allow for expedient decision making (may include stakeholders and data persons).
Must host any number of consultative meetings, calls, discussions, or the like outside of the weekly meeting times with other campuses, units, and own campus personnel.
Must be willing to co-lead at least one week’s targeted area. A team of at least 2 campus will be assign to lead and work with UTO for each focus area. Co- leads lead work and check in with campus, data, persons, host conversations, and report out in Thursday morning meetings using meeting template.
Must be willing to attend all Thursday meetings and only substitute with a delegate from workgroup who has been engaged from the start with the work of the TAC and can be charged with similar decision making powers.
Must be willing to work swiftly each work, upload relevant documents to the TEAMS account and dashboard.
Communicate often and consistently via TEAMS through IMs, notes, questions, discussions with each other, questions across campus, inputting data, sharing links, sharing resources/templates, etc.
To ascertain where we are, each campus completed a mindmap. At the start of the mind map was a rating of the 21 standards. Of the 21 standards, just about 60% have been met. When sub-divided into the four (4) work groups (1-Infrastructure and Handoffs, 2-Policy, 3-Rules/Systems/Communications, and 4-Data & Tracking), policy is the area where there have been the most success, reporting a current overall rating of 81.5% met. Data and tracking had the least items met with a rating of 29%. The Caucus members are activly socializing the challenges and responding to the leaks we know. By the end of the 8-week Caucus process closure, we will report movements on each item.
