PASSPORT TASK FORCE ON STUDENT TRACKING

The Task Force, comprised of registrars and institutional research staff, began work in July 2012, and expects to finalize its recommendations by May 2013.

SCOPE OF WORK

The Task Force has met in a series of conference calls to consider options for two aspects of the grant:

1. Ways for a sending institution to signify on a student’s record that he or she has achieved the learning outcomes in the Interstate Passport Gen Ed Core Block so that this requirement is recognized as fulfilled by a participating receiving institution. This transfer is based on learning outcomes not credits. 
2. Ways for participating receiving institutions to track Passport student success and compare it with that of students transferring without the Passport and with native students.  Receiving institutions would send reports to sending institutions so that they are made aware of the track record for their former students and can make adjustments in the preparation of future students if it is deemed to be warranted.

Once this work is completed, WICHE will convene a conference call with representatives from the other partner schools to discuss the options and recommendations of the Task Force.