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Over the next five years, 61 institutions in nine states participated in Win-Win by identifying students with unawarded earned degrees and retroactively awarding them, and reenrolling students who were close to completion but needed additional credits to graduate.  \nDuring the same period, the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launched its own initiative, Credit When It’s Due (CWID) . CWID aimed to increase degree completion through reverse transfer, a practice through which institutions ensure that students are awarded degrees they began at another institution. When a student transfers from a two-year institution to a four-year institution and earns the remaining credits required for an associate’s degree, the two institutions employ “reverse transfer” to apply credits from the four-year institution back to the two-year institution for the purpose of awarding the associate’s degree.  \nIn 2017, upon the conclusion of Win-Win and CWID, IHEP released The Potential of Degree Reclamation: A Path to Reclaiming the Nation’s Unrecognized Students and Degrees, and coined the term “degree reclamation” in outlining the findings from both initiatives. This term encompasses the strategies from both Win-Win and CWID, with the shared focus on enabling students and institutions to recognize earned credits and unawarded degrees. Together, Win-Win and CWID helped students claim over 20,000 new associate’s degrees.  \nThe following year, IHEP launched its next college completion initiative,  Degrees When Due (DWD) . DWD deployed evidencebased and equity-minded degree reclamation strategies from Win-Win and CWID to support institutions as they sought to help students complete credentials that were meaningful to their education and career goals. DWD spanned three cohorts and included almost 200 institutions across 23 states between 2018 and 2021.  \nThis playbook distills more than a decade’s worth of best practices into a practical guide to support your degree reclamation efforts. On behalf of everyone at IHEP and  \npast team members involved in our long history of degree completion efforts, thank you for your work to support students. We hope you find this to be a useful tool to increase completion at your institution, in your system, or across your state.  \nMAMIE VOIGHT  \nPresident  \nLEANNE DAVIS  \nAssociate Director of Research and Policy  \nJENNIFER POCAI  \nResearch and  \nPrograms Manager  \n1. National Student Clearinghouse. (2019) . Some college, no degree: A 2019  \nsnapshot for the nation and 50 states. Retrieved from  \n[https://nscresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SCND_Report_2019.pdf](https://nscresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SCND_Report_2019.pdf)  \n[i](ii THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK | About this PlAybook)[i](ii THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK | About this PlAybook)[ THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK](ii THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK | About this PlAybook)[ |](ii THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK | About this PlAybook)[ About this PlAybook](ii THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK | About this PlAybook)  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nABOUT THIS PLAY BOOK  ........................................ I  \nINTRODUCTION TO DEGREE RECLAMATION  ........................ 1  \nHOW TO USE THIS PLAYBOOK  ................................... 2  \nIMPLEMENTATION AT A GLANCE  ................................. 3  \nSTRATEGIC ASSESSMENT  ...................................... 4  \nIMPLEMENTATION  ............","cbCain8sEv5xG7lQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain8sEv5xG7lQ","pdf",6976649,53,"English","# About this Playbook\n# Introduction to Degree Reclamation\n# How to Use This Playbook\n# Implementation at a Glance\n# Strategic Assessment\n# Implementation\n## Step 1: Establish your Team(s)\n## Step 2: Build an Equity Framework\n## Step 3: Inventory Institutional Policies and Practices\n## Step 4: Dig into the Data\n## Step 5: Share Transcripts and Obtain Student Consent (Reverse transfer)\n## Step 6: Audit Degrees\n## Step 7: Communicate with Near-Completers\n## Step 8: Reenroll Near-Completers (Adult Reengagement)\n## Step 9: Confer Degrees\n## Step 10: Sustain Degree Reclamation Strategies\n# Regional and State Leadership\n# Acknowledgments\n# Appendix","[{\"question\":\"What problem does degree reclamation address?\",\"answer\":\"Degree reclamation targets students who earned significant college credit but never received a credential that recognizes that learning, aiming to enable completion and recognition of unawarded degrees.\"},{\"question\":\"How did reverse transfer support degree completion?\",\"answer\":\"Reverse transfer ensures credits earned at a four-year institution are applied back to the two-year institution so students can be awarded an associate’s degree when requirements are met.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the core implementation steps in the playbook?\",\"answer\":\"The playbook guides teams through establishing roles, building an equity framework, inventorying policies, analyzing data to identify students, sharing transcripts with consent, auditing degrees, communicating with near-completers, reenrolling them, conferring degrees, and sustaining strategies.\"}]","THE DEGREE RECLAMATION PLAYBOOK - About This Playbook - How to Use This Playbook | PDF",1792052038,134]