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Transfer Student Success: How Higher Education Systems Matter
The movement of students, and their earned credits, between colleges is inherently a system issue. And, systems may be the nation’s best bet for improving transfer at scale.
Reflections on the NASH Equity Action Framework by Two of the Equity Action Framework Development Team Members
NASH’s newly launched Equity Action Framework was designed to be an accessible tool that helps Systems elevate their commitments to equity and promotes explicit and sustained engagement with nine essential equity practice areas.
Collective Impact and Organizations
For several years NASH has played an outsized role in supporting the emerging field of High-Impact Practices, dear to my heart. It has scheduled national meetings adjacent to the HIPs in the States conference series, and used a significant grant from Lumina Foundation to add to the field’s knowledge base, collecting its findings at an interactive, extremely engaging web site.
TS3 Convening Takeaways
The Fifth Annual NASH TS3 Convening, took place on November 9, 2020 in a pandemic-style highly-interactive virtual format.
The Power of Systemness: Unpacking the Rhyme and Reason of TS3
Systemness, or the idea that the whole can be more than the sum of its parts, is the fundamental concept that drives our work. Rather than seeing systems as collections of disparate actors, our work coordinates systems, leveraging their power to convene and facilitate, as well as their traditional roles in governing and policy, to build collaborations that support students and campuses. Our work facilitates and aligns instead of trying to mediate potentially competitive actions at the national and system levels.