TransferTALK
TransferTALK
Podcast Description
transferTALK, a podcast hosted by DegreeSight’s Vice President of Partnerships, Jay Fedje, serves as a helpful resource for enrollment management, registration practitioners, academic deans, and transfer recruitment professionals. We seek to serve transfer students and colleges/universities.
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Content Themes
The podcast highlights themes such as enrollment management, marketing strategies for non-traditional students, and support for 'invisible audiences' like transfer students and dormant degree seekers, with specific episodes discussing pulse research techniques and community engagement strategies.
TransferTALK is a podcast hosted by Jay Fedje. He provides more than three decades of experience in Enrollment Management, Marketing, Brand Strategy, Transfer Recruitment Strategy, Higher Education Consulting, Podcasting, and Big Thinking. TransferTALK serves as a helpful resource for enrollment managers, registrars, academic deans, and transfer recruitment professionals. We seek to serve transfer students and colleges/universities.
Episode 27
From Credit Hours to Currency: The New Economy of Higher Education
Guest: Drew Melendres
Higher education has entered a new era—one where student movement is no longer the exception, but the expectation.
In this thought-provoking episode of TransferTALK, Jay Fedje welcomes back Drew Melendres for a forward-looking conversation about one of the most significant shifts facing colleges and universities today: the evolution of college credit from an academic record into an economic asset.
Together, they explore why the traditional ”first-time freshman” model is becoming less representative of today's learners and why institutions must begin designing systems around student mobility instead of institutional permanence.
From dual enrollment and transfer students to adults returning with previously earned credits, today's learners are assembling their education across multiple institutions. As a result, transparency, portability, and the perceived value of credit have become strategic issues affecting recruitment, student success, institutional sustainability, and public trust.
Whether you're a president, provost, registrar, enrollment leader, faculty member, or policymaker, this episode challenges long-held assumptions about ownership, transfer, and the future of higher education.
In this episode you'll hear:
- Why transfer students may become the dominant student population.
- The concept of credit hours as currency and why it changes everything.
- How student mobility is reshaping enrollment strategy.
- Why transparency around transfer credit matters more than ever.
- The institutional barriers slowing meaningful credit mobility.
- What colleges can do today to prepare for tomorrow's learners.
About Drew Melendres
Drew Melendres serves as a leader at DegreeSight, where he works with colleges and universities to improve credit mobility, transfer transparency, and the student experience. His work focuses on helping institutions rethink long-standing processes in ways that better serve today's increasingly mobile learners.
About TransferTALK
Hosted by Jay Fedje, TransferTALK features conversations with higher education leaders, innovators, and practitioners exploring transfer, enrollment strategy, student success, artificial intelligence, leadership, and the future of higher education.
If you'd like to talk transfer strategies or have questions on this episode: www.degreesight.com. You can also find us at www.linkedin.com/company/degreesight
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