Lead Agency: Kansas Board of Regents
Why We’re Committed
“Kansas’ partnership with Credential Engine offers an exciting opportunity for us to make higher education more transparent, improve comparison across state lines, articulate credit for military experience, and indicate high-demand credentials within the state. Families need access to these data points in order to make the best decisions about the educational options available to them. Our institutions also benefit from having that information to better understand the core competencies provided by our system.” — Dr. Blake Flanders, President and CEO, Kansas Board of Regents
About
Kansas
The Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) which serves as the coordinating board for all public institutions in the state is committed to advancing credential transparency statewide because they believe deeply in its value. From the early days of the partnership, KBOR recognized the importance of championing the work and garnering support. According to Nathan Snyder, one of the leaders of this work,
“The number one thing to prepare before starting this project is to be ready for collaboration. You really need to become a facilitator and create avenues to include the perspective of every department. We understood that only by working cross-departmentally would we be able to get both the data we needed but also the buy-in to ultimately use that data. This transformed how the Kansas Board of Regents collects and connects our education and training data to better understand and provide opportunities for people.”
The KBOR team quickly coordinated outreach and worked closely with institutions to ensure they understood the value and had what they needed to publish to the Credential Registry. This allowed KBOR to set the ambitious goal to publish information about all credit-bearing credentials offered at all public postsecondary institutions to the Registry.
In 2019, Kansas became the first state to utilize the application programming interface (API) method to publish to the Credential Registry. So whenever KBOR’s internal systems receive updates from the institutions, those same updates are automatically pushed to the Registry. The KBOR team has also had a pivotal role in fostering and supporting the network of Credential Engine state partners.
Kansas has served as a leader in publishing rich information to the Credential Registry, including publishing financial assistance opportunities and additional relevant information that contributes to improved information about quality indicators and transfer values that show which programs and schools in the state award credit for prior learning. KBOR’s scope of work continues to expand as they find innovative ways to ensure transparent information gets in the hands of Kansans.
Kansas has published over 2,500 credentials and learning opportunities and nearly 3,000 transfer values for the public colleges and universities.
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