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Funding for the pilot provided by :
Project Initiated: 2023
Our goal:
Over one-third of first-time students transfer at least once during their academic journey, but often they lose earned college credit when entering a new institution. Our colleagues in Ithaka S+R are hard at work trying to open the black box of credit transfer. They worked with the City University of New York to design and build the groundbreaking CUNY Transfer Explorer (T-Rex), which has helped over 150,000 users explore, discover, and use the over 1.6 million credit transfer rules for the CUNY system’s 20 undergraduate colleges.
Now, JSTOR Labs is partnering with Ithaka S+R to build a universal credit mobility website, inspired by T-Rex, which will connect students, institutions, and all those that support them with easily accessible, up-to-date, and accurate information on how credits transfer and count towards degrees.
Our progress:
We have designed and developed Transfer Explorer that was launched with data from Lander University (SC) on February 19, 2025 and have subsequently added Aiken Technical College (SC) and Coastal Carolina University (SC). We are excited to continue working with the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system,the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, and the Washington Student Achievement Council, and the City University of New York on further implementations.
The next group of institutions to be featured as destinations will include:
Connecticut
Central Connecticut State University
Charter Oak State College
Connecticut State Community College
Eastern Connecticut State University
Southern Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University
South Carolina
College of Charleston
Denmark Technical College
Horry-Georgetown Technical College
Washington
Clark College
Columbia Basin College
Shoreline Community College
Washington State University Everett
The data integration process from participating college source systems, including SIS and degree audit, uses the open-source CampusAPI services and Enterprise Integration Framework from the nonprofit DXtera Institute. Throughout the rest 2025, we will expand to additional institutions within each state – and beyond.