Credits, Partnerships and Advising: Metro State's Trifecta of Transfer Success
When Metropolitan State University in Minnesota launched 50 years ago, its mission was to serve students who were falling through the cracks of traditional higher education. Like other “universities without walls” launched around the same time, it had no physical campus but rather served working adults in rented spaces around the Twin Cities. It was exclusively an upper-division institution focused on degree completion, so by definition its students were 100 percent transfer students. Today, even as the institution has grown into a comprehensive university with a physical campus, betw...
Source: insidehighered.com