DES MOINES, IOWA (October 16, 2024) — Fifteen Iowa community-college presidents met Wednesday, September 25, in Des Moines to approve the Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee admission agreement with the Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative that aims to streamline the transfer process for Iowa community college and qualifying* high-school students to private four-year institutions.
The Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative (IPTC) is a group of nineteen private non-profit colleges and universities across the state of Iowa that received a three-year, $350,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis and Teagle foundations in June 2023 to support this initiative.
The grant will fund work across the state aimed at bringing together faculty from community colleges and four-year institutions to ensure the seamless transfer of academic credits and place a greater emphasis on the retention rate for students who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions.
In addition to approving the Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee, participating private institutions are working to make their campuses more transfer-friendly in terms of accepting existing transfer majors from community colleges and identifying ways to make their campuses more receptive to transfer students.
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