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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:125%"><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:black">An Opening Note</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Since our founding, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program has worked to identify colleges achieving strong levels of student success—and then to deeply investigate
and broadly share how they did it. We began in 2010 with the creation of the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which ever since has been a core way we learn how excellent community colleges achieve unusually high levels of student success
through scaled reforms. We have since expanded our research to include American Talent Initiative members achieving high and improving levels of access for low-income students, as well as partnerships between universities and community colleges that lead to
strong bachelor’s attainment rates after transferring. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">This month, I am delighted to announce the latest installment of that research—our new
</span><a href="https://aspeninstitute.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae2e56f1c283f8903c1a035e1&id=0612f9057e&e=441c662533" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:black">Transfer Playbook</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">,
researched and written with the Community College Research Center. Nine years after research for our initial Transfer Playbook began, we’ve gone back into the field to find and investigate college partnerships that achieve great bachelor’s attainment results
for all community college students, and also for particular groups that attain bachelor’s degrees at lower rates nationally. The student outcomes that these colleges prove possible are inspiring, and the transformational models they created offer replicable
lessons about how others can dramatically increase bachelor’s attainment for the diverse students who enter community college every year. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Why do we do this research? Because college leaders, faculty, and staff can and want to do better. In
response to this urge to improve, Aspen continues to expand programming for presidents, senior leaders, trustees, and college teams, creating opportunities for them to decide how to replicate lessons from excellent colleges to advance a bold reform agenda
in their own contexts. For example, in partnership with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), we recently welcomed the fourth cohort of universities and community college partners into our
</span><a href="https://aspeninstitute.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae2e56f1c283f8903c1a035e1&id=738092bd07&e=441c662533"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:#1155CC">Transfer Intensive</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">,
bringing to 91 the number of institutional teams that have participated. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Another example is our
</span><a href="https://aspeninstitute.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae2e56f1c283f8903c1a035e1&id=2276dc51f7&e=441c662533"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:#1155CC">Unlocking Opportunity</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">
network, which is now accepting </span><a href="https://aspeninstitute.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae2e56f1c283f8903c1a035e1&id=558b340ddd&e=441c662533"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:#1155CC">applications</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">
for 50 more community colleges to join and improve workforce and transfer outcomes over an intensive, multi-year period; find application information below.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="mcepastedcontent1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">All of these efforts build on lessons we learned from excellent colleges, beginning with the first Aspen Prize cycle in 2011. Fast forward 14 years:
we’ll celebrate our ten finalists and announce the winner(s) of the 2025 Aspen Prize next month on April 17, beginning at 12:30. We hope you will tune in to watch the ceremony; you can register for the livestream
</span><a href="https://aspeninstitute.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae2e56f1c283f8903c1a035e1&id=28527dee91&e=441c662533"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif;color:#1155CC">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">.
I look forward to seeing some of you at the event and appreciate all those who can join online.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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a bachelor’s degree within six years of community college entry—far fewer than the 80% of entering community college students who report wanting to earn a bachelor’s. Our new Transfer Playbook offers concrete strategies that leaders, faculty, and staff at
two and four-year colleges can use to close the gap between those student aspirations and bachelor’s attainment realities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Based on quantitative research into college partnerships achieving the best results, our team interviewed
dozens of colleges and conducted in-person site visits to<span style="background:white"> institutions across the countr</span>y. The result: synthesized practices and lessons from successful, replicable transfer models—from Arizona to Virginia—that other colleges
and states can use to improve the bachelor’s attainment outcomes for students who start in community college. Consider Virginia Commonwealth University, which created new staff positions to lead transfer efforts and established a transfer center to provide
advising for prospective transfer students at their community college partners. The leaders and transfer center have catalyzed institutional reforms that have significantly increased transfer success: VCU now has a 74 percent four-year graduation rate among
community college transfer students. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">The report details transformational models that we hope inspire every university and community colleges
across the country, from the ADVANCE dual enrollment program at George Mason and Northern Virginia Community College, to the seamless transition program at Northern Arizona University and Arizona Western College, to the Justice Academy partnership between
John Jay College of Criminal Justice and all of CUNY’s community colleges, and more. These models offer lessons that can be used by every institution in the country—all of which will be needed to activate the talents of the millions of deserving community
college students who every year aim to transfer and earn life-changing bachelor’s degrees. To learn more, read<span style="background:white">
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a webinar on May 7 at 3:00 pm: “Transfer Turnaround: Rebounding Enrollments and Recommendations From the Updated Transfer Playbook,” with panelists from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, CCRC, and Aspen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">All of Aspen’s community college work includes a strong focus on ensuring students’ post-graduation success, whether that’s earning a credential that leads directly to a good
job or successfully transferring and earning a bachelor’s degree. This is the driving force behind the
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to help more students enter and complete high-value pathways. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="mcepastedcontent1" style="line-height:137%;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:137%;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Unlocking Opportunity began with 10 community colleges, and is now expanding to include 50 more. Each
will set goals to increase the number of students in high-value programs and decrease the number in low-opportunity pathways, and develop strategies to achieve these goals. Our
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to join the network and dig into the strategies with us; applications are open until May 5. This expansion has been made possible due to generous support from JPMorgan Chase & Co.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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