Resources
Helping Institutions and Allied Organizations Advance Student Mobility
The Guide provides helpful tools and resources in addition to the Transcript Standards and the Glossary to support your efforts to advance promising practices in your organization.
Transcript Resources
- PDF Academic Transcript: Best Practice Guidelines
- PDF Transcript Legend: Best Practice Guidelines
- PDF Transcript: Best Practice Publication Principles
- Comparing Standards between the 2003 ARUCC Transcript Standards Guide and the 2011 AACRAO Academic Record and Transcript Guide
- PDF 2003 ARUCC National Transcript Guide
- AACRAO Academic Record & Transcript Guide
- PDF AACRAO 2015 U.S. Higher Education Transcript Practices and Best Practice Opinions: Results of the AACRAO 2015 Academic Record and Transcript Survey
Transfer and Student Mobility Resources and Initiatives
- Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer (ACAT) Research Studies
- BC Ministry of Advanced Education Student Transitions Project
- British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) Research Studies
- Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) Research Studies
- Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission (MPHEC) Research Studies
- Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) Research Studies
- Transfer related resources: AACRAO
- US Transfer Credit Practices
Jurisdictional Overviews
The Phase 1 ARUCC PCCAT National Transcript and Transfer Credit Nomenclature Standards Report provides national and regionally specific overviews of the progress on transcript standards and transfer credit initiatives (see pages 28 to 45). Phase 1 Full Report
“[S]tudents are combining attendance at a number of schools all the way through their educational journey suggesting that a shift is occurring with regard to long-held understandings regarding the concepts surrounding transfer, transcript standards, and transfer credit nomenclature more generally.”
(Fleming, R., Adamoski, R., BCCAT)