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Jonathan Bodrero, an associate professor of Mathematics, has been highly involved with the development of the Quantitative Literacy Learning Outcomes for Interstate Passport. He has been teaching for 19 years at Passport Network Member Institution Snow College. Bodrero has experience with outcomes-based assessment as he chaired the Math General Education Tuning team for the State […]

An Education Dive article, Gen ed startup partners with university to offer transfer credit for online classes, describes how a start-up company is partnering with higher education to facilitate transfer in Pittsburgh. Outlier.org will launch September 9 to offer two 14-week general education courses at $400 each with credit to be awarded by the University […]

Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Signature Report No. 16, Completing College: A National View of Student Completion Rates—Fall 2012 Cohort, underscores the “racial transfer gap” referred to by Debra Bragg in her interview. The second table below is interesting from a transfer perspective because it illustrates that not only do black and […]

Mike Hillman, co-chair of the Passport Review Board, recently interviewed  Debra Bragg is director of Community College Research Initiatives at the University of Washington in Seattle, and also the founding director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is an endowed university professor. […]

Interstate Passport Network institutions map Passport Learning Outcomes to their curriculum to develop their Passport Block. As described above by Brown-Herbst of Laramie County Community College, mapping is used to develop Guided Pathways within the Passport Block. Now a recent article featured in Education Dive suggests that mapping could be a key to developing “universal […]

 Interstate Passport Network member Cerritos College uses social media campaign to promote student transfer opportunities through Interstate Passport.    Check out the full campaign at these links: https://fb.me/1GZ0zPeovi8iNVy https://fb.me/1I6TnBgeYilvzx5

Kari Brown-Herbst is the Director for the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She serves three key Passport roles: the Wyoming Passport State Facilitator, the state representative to the Passport Review Board and the Institutional Liaison for Laramie County Community College. Brown-Herbst has presented on behalf of Interstate […]