CARA’s peer-to-peer programming has grown over the years in alignment with what our peer leaders have told us they see a need for in their schools and colleges. When several of them shared the obstacles they experienced transferring from two to four-year CUNYs, their unique insights led us to expand our peer-to-peer model to the transfer field.

In Spring of 2021, with funding from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, we set out to identify the leaks in the transfer pipeline and train peer leaders to help plug them. By working across five different campuses, we discovered a much more complex transfer landscape than we had anticipated – one marked by numerous pipelines and a multitude of very specific leaks that vary depending upon the programs, policies, and resources of the sending and receiving institutions.

Check out our new blog post – Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Plugging the Leaks in the Transfer Pipeline – in Inside Higher Ed’s Beyond Transfer series, where we detail the lessons learned, as well as a set of best practices that can be leveraged towards creating a more equitable system that supports all students.