Credit Transfer Explorer

Our goal:

Over one-third of first-time students transfer at least once during their academic journey, but often they lose earned college credit when entering a new institution. Our colleagues in Ithaka S+R are hard at work trying to open the black box of credit transfer. They worked with the City University of New York to design and build the groundbreaking CUNY Transfer Explorer (T-Rex), which has helped over 150,000 users explore, discover, and use the over 1.6 million credit transfer rules for the CUNY system’s 20 undergraduate colleges.

Now, JSTOR Labs is partnering with Ithaka S+R to build a universal credit mobility website, inspired by T-Rex, which will connect students, institutions, and all those that support them with easily accessible, up-to-date, and accurate information on how credits transfer and count towards degrees.

Our plan:

• We will design and develop a new "universal credit transfer explorer" website, to be released later in 2024 with data from an inaugural set of institutions across three states. We are excited to work with the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system,the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, and the Washington Student Achievement Council.
• The first group of institutions to be featured as destinations on the new website will include: Aiken Technical College (SC), Central Connecticut State University (CT), Coastal Carolina University (SC), College of Charleston (SC), Connecticut State Community College (CT), Denmark Technical College (SC), Lander University (SC), Shoreline Community College (WA), Southern Connecticut State University (CT), and Washington State University Everett (WA).
• The data integration process from participating college source systems, including SIS and degree audit, uses the open-source CampusAPI services and Enterprise Integration Framework from the nonprofit DXtera Institute.
• Throughout the rest of 2024 and 2025, we will expand to additional institutions within each state – and beyond.