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  The Tackling Transfer initiative states the challenge clearly: “Few students who enter community college intending to get a bachelor’s degree ever do.” It’s an issue we’ve seen in Dayton, Ohio. Though a mere 1.5 miles separate the University of Dayton and Sinclair Community College -- one of the largest, most highly ranked and successful community colleges in the country -- some talented students still could not see an attractive path to a high-quality four-year degree. To address the roadblocks facing transfer students, we created a new partnership in 2016, the UD Sinclair Acade...

  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...