ABSTRACT
Seeking to boost college completion in the United States, the foundations coined the catch phrase Credit When It’s Due (CWID) for a 16-state reverse transfer or, what our research team believes is more accurately labeled, reverse-credit transfer initiative. CWID encouraged states to modify transfer policies and practices to authorize associate degrees for students who transfer to a 4-year college or university before completing sufficient credits to attain a 2-year degree. Noting the complimentary nature of these various transfer reforms, some of which deliberately recognize the needs and aspirations of post-traditional transfer students, this chapter delves more deeply into what the research team learned by studying how states affiliated with the CWID network implemented reverse-credit transfer from 2012 to 2017. State- or system-wide efforts establishing general education transfer course or credit blocks toward specified transfer degrees are emerging in some CWID states, such as Colorado and Missouri.
