Dr. Sanford "Sandy" Shugart was a keynote speaker at the National Symposium on Student Retention in Salt Lake City, UT on November 5-8, 2018. He spoke on "Building an Education Ecosystem: The Power of Better College Transfer Practices to Lead Students to Better Futures." NSSR is sponsored by the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) at the University of Oklahoma. The PowerPoint slides and handouts from his presentation are available at https://csrde.ou.edu/past-symposia/.