Q&A
Proposals for altering CUNY's systems to improve transfer student outcomes
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Eli Dvorkin discusses potential ways to alter CUNY's systems to better address the problems identified in his report on transfer students. He emphasizes the need for city investment in operationalizing CUNY's existing initiatives.
- Dvorkin proposes a CUNY Transfer Accelerator, which would require investment of city dollars
- He notes that initial work on articulation of credit transfer started with philanthropic grants
- Dvorkin stresses the importance of city support to implement these initiatives across the whole CUNY system
- He highlights the success of programs at Bronx colleges and suggests expanding similar initiatives system-wide
Eric Dinowitz
1:28:06
Wow.
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And do you listening to testimony today, thinking about what you know about Kinney's systems, are there other ways to alter them to better address the problem that you identified in your report on transfer students?
Eli Dvorkin
1:28:22
Yeah.
1:28:22
I think there's a couple couple of thoughts there.
1:28:23
One is I do think that that big idea of this CUNY Transfer Accelerator, which I'm I'm proposing, would be an investment of city dollars in operationalizing what CUNY's already done.
1:28:32
You know, it's important to note there that the initial work that really started this process with the articulation of credit transfer project, it started with grants from philanthropic foundations.
1:28:41
You know, those foundations took kind of the risk of trying to figure out with CUNY's faculty and and administrative expertise What's the problem here?
1:28:49
And how do we solve it?
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And I think the good news is that that project, that program has been really successful.
1:28:54
We know where it's been implemented like at Lehman College, We've seen the the share of credits that are actually accepted by the receiving institution at Lehman in that case from Osteau Community College.
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Increase from about 50% to over 70%.
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So there's something's working there.
1:29:07
I think the problem is that that was a grant that has expired.
1:29:10
And while there's a little bit of additional money to kinda keep it going.
1:29:13
I think the part that you weren't hearing, I think, from that first panel was there's very few resources in place to even can sustain what Kimi's been doing since 2020.
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Let alone to do the full scale of implementation across the entire system that I think everybody up there agrees is what's needed.
1:29:28
So that would be my concern right now is that without the city kinda stepping up and saying, this is a priority for the city of New York and here are the dollars to specifically allocate toward operationalizing these initiatives that we're gonna see continue to see the benefits at the schools that have already benefited from that that pilot program, but it'll be challenging to get that implementation to happen across the whole system.
Eric Dinowitz
1:29:48
Yeah.
1:29:49
I I I I would propose that perhaps the reason it was so successful was because you named 2 Bronx Colleges, and things are always great in the Bronx.
Eli Dvorkin
1:29:57
Rocks do
Jen Gaboury
1:29:57
a lot of things right.
Eric Dinowitz
1:29:58
We do a lot of things right.