Publish disaggregated transfer student outcomes on public-facing dashboards

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Mechanism

Public dashboards break transfer outcomes out by race, income and program. The pressure is reputational: gaps that are visible get attention from campus leaders.

Preconditions

A public institutional research site or a state higher education data portal.

Owner, by role

Chief Institutional Research Officer

Who can act

System, state or accreditor

Effort

Medium, 6 months to first visible effect

Outcome metric

Dashboard traffic; transfer equity goals appearing in strategic plans

Failure modes

Small cell sizes for specific student groups may lead to data suppression, masking critical equity gaps.

Contra-indications

None stated