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Texas Transfer Alliance
Texas Transfer Alliance
HELPING TRANSFER STUDENTS THRIVE
A statewide, cross-sector collaboration designed to achieve equitable student success through improvements in credit mobility, academic transfer, and credentialing. The focus is inclusive of learning that occurs in a variety of high-quality settings. including high school, postsecondary education, the military, and the workforce.
HELPING TRANSFER STUDENTS THRIVE
A statewide, cross-sector collaboration designed to achieve equitable student success through improvements in credit mobility, academic transfer, and credentialing. The focus is inclusive of learning that occurs in a variety of high-quality settings. including high school, postsecondary education, the military, and the workforce.
HELPING TRANSFER STUDENTS THRIVE
A statewide, cross-sector collaboration designed to achieve equitable student success through improvements in credit mobility, academic transfer, and credentialing. The focus is inclusive of learning that occurs in a variety of high-quality settings. including high school, postsecondary education, the military, and the workforce.
DISRUPTING & DECONSTRUCTING INEQUITIES
The revitalized TTA is committed to disrupting what have been entrenched, systemic, and institutionalized inequities.
2025 GOALS Each goal includes the elimination of all gaps by race/ethnicity and Pell status.
- Increase the six-year transfer-out rate from 21% to 33%.
- Increase the four-year bachelor’s completion rate of community college transfers from 58% to 67%.
- Decrease the average number of attempted credits to degree from 142.9 for transfer students and 136.4 for native students to 135 credits for both groups.
- Decrease the average time-to-degree for transfer students from 7.6 years to 6.5 years.
- Increase the percent of Texas community college students completing college-level math and writing in the first year to 45% (from 19% and 33%, respectively).
A COLLABORATION OF TEXAS UNIVERSITIES & COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Bringing together Texas universities and community colleges to improve transfer student outcomes, The Alliance is led by the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and is guided by representatives from: Texas A&M University System, Texas Association of Community Colleges, Texas State University System, University of North Texas System, and University of Texas System.
The Alliance’s work is designed to help Texas institutions meet their goals for improved student success, including the 60x30TX goals as outlined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Through its Transfer Partnership Strategy (TPS), the Alliance is working intensively with 26 universities and community colleges across the state. The TPS seeks to positively influence postsecondary attainment and affordability by addressing the high level of inefficiency and credit loss students experience when transitioning between institutions by helping:
- Regional subgroups collaborate to develop improved transfer processes, including establishing measurable targets, strategies, and models.
- Institutions design plans that ensure degree requirements are consistent for transfer and applicability toward programs of study/degrees.
- Institutions enact continuous improvement processes, including regularly reviewing data and policy to make data-informed shifts in transfer and applicability processes.
