CCCTrans and the CSU

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CCCTrans and the CSU

• October 16,2007
• Jim Blackburn

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Some Context

• For CY 06-07- CSU campuses enrolled 54,391 CCC
  Transfers
• For 06-07- CSU recd 187,196 CCC transfer
  applications
• Most CCC transfers to CSU have attended more than
  one CC

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What do CSU campuses do with CCC transcripts?

• Evaluate for admissions purposes
• Varying degrees of automation
• Evaluate for course equivalencies
• Varying degrees of automation
• Upload to degree audit (some do they all should)
• Share electronic image of transcript with other
  parts of campus
• Post to Permanent record

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Current practices re CCC transcripts in CSU

• Some EDI
• A lot of optical scanning and storage
• Significant use of OCR technology
• beaucoup trouble, but still better than paper

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Worst CSU case and next case

• Still awash in paper
• CSU admissions still only centralized on the
  very front end, i.e. apps upload to campus only
• EDI is current goal
• XML seems likely to be the next big thing

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Some Pros re CCCTrans

• Pros
• More successful than our last system venture in
  EDI (circa 1995)
• Outsources something that would be expensive to
  do locally, e.g. a lot of electronic handshakes
• CSU campuses can pull CCC records

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Some Cons re CCCTrans

• Arguably over-engineered from the CSUs
  perspective
• Probably more cost effective for some campuses
  than others
• Fullerton, SD, LB, SF may receive 10K CCC
  transcripts annually (probably several tens of
  thousands)
• CMA may receive 100

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Possible Scenarios

• Try to expand current list of trading partners
• Develop regional partnerships, e.g. Inland
  Empire, Bay Area, Central Valley, etc
• Campuses will make their own decisions and pay as
  we go

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Low Tech Questions and Comments

• Jim is 60 years old and knows that computers run
  on something called electricity

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