The Aspen Institute, Community College Research Center This playbook is a practical guide to designing and implementing a key set of practices that will help community college and four-year college partners realize the promise of the transfer process. In the first three sections, the resource describe essential practices, followed by a discussion of “next frontiers” of practice, and then list in the fifth section of activities for community colleges and four-year colleges to undertake in order to implement the strategies. The playbook concludes with a synthesis of practitioners’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges associated with state transfer articulation policies.