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LTI-OPS-021
Audit systemwide student records centrally for reverse transfer eligibility
Two-year to four-yearwith adaptationFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Qualify
authors state results are correlational, not causal
Mechanism
The audit runs centrally at system level, so no individual college has to hunt for its own eligible students. Near-completers get found.
Preconditions
One shared repository of enrollment and course-taking records across system campuses.
Owner, by role
System Analyst / Centralized Institutional Research Office
Who can act
System, state or accreditor
Effort
Large, 12 to 18 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Eligible students identified and contacted
Failure modes
Decentralized or incompatible student databases make central data matching manually intensive and prone to matching errors.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-OPS-019 Apply an opt-out consent policy for reverse transfer awards