This session at the SHEEO Noncredit Engagement Convening will invite agency leaders to reflect on what it would take to approach credit mobility more holistically, prioritizing student success. As states are working towards legitimizing noncredit administration and data governance practices, the moment is here for state and institutional leaders to consider their full portfolio relating to credit mobility—transfer and articulation, military occupation articulation, credit for prior learning, stacking noncredit programs, etc.—and consider ways to design systems and practices that can be used across the spectrum of these activities. To do so requires leaders to think deliberately about which underlying principles of credit mobility should be elevated to ensure this approach is sound and incentivizes the outcomes leaders hope to see.

Drawing on the work Ithaka S+R is leading in states, Martin Kurzweil will offer reflections on a path forward in which states can learn from the lessons of states engaged in this work to expedite the adoption of credit mobility practices and improve the effectiveness of noncredit administration and data use.