The transfer of credit from community college Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree programs in early childhood education (typically 60-68 total credit hours, with four to six courses in general education) to bachelor's degree programs in early childhood education has emerged as an urgent issue in early childhood education. The call for a more educated workforce is supported by the recently released report from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, "Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation" (2015), which recommends that all lead teachers of children from birth through age 8 have a bachelor's degree in early childhood education or a related field. With the number of students enrolling in teacher education programs dramatically decreasing in the last few years, strategies to achieve higher education levels for our teaching workforce are at the forefront of the field (Sawchuk, 2014, October). One of the most cost-efficient and logical strategies is to improve articulation agreements between 2-year community college degree programs and 4-year institutions. (author abstract)