"I didn't want to see decades of really important knowledge-building disappear,"
"Transfer is just an increasing part of the conversation in higher ed, and to lose that resource-it just was unconscionable to me."
"I could not be more thrilled [about] how things have landed."
"bolsters some of the really great work they've already been doing in this area"
"builds on where they've been headed,"
The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students lost university funding and its base at the University of North Georgia, threatening its two-decade role connecting transfer scholars and campus staff. The National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina agreed to sustain NISTS's legacy, assuming much of its programming and resources for transfer professionals. Multiple organizations offered help after the October closure announcement, and the NRC was selected because of mission overlap and established professional relationships. The NRC already produced scholarship and guidance on first-year experiences and was expanding transfer programming when the transition occurred. The absorption bolsters existing transfer work and preserves accumulated knowledge.
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