IHEP Guidebook Outlines How Lost Degrees Can Be Reclaimed Via Reverse Credit Transfers
Published Feb 23, 2021
By Jessica Ruf, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
A new guidebook from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) addresses how institutions can create equity-centered “reverse credit transfers” — allowing the transfer of a student’s earned credits from four- or two-year institutions to a two-year institution that can award the student, if eligible, an associate degree.
According to IHEP, a disproportionate number of Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students “unwittingly leave postsecondary credentials on the table without institutions awarding the associate degrees they have earned.” Initiatives such as reverse transfers, however, successfully help recover those associate degrees, argues IHEP through its guidebook, Reclaiming Earned Degrees Through Reverse Transfer.
