Focusing on the role of the California State University (CSU) in renewing and strengthening the transfer function, this report includes information on the history and importance of transfer, low transfer rates and other problems, CSU and cooperative efforts to improve transfer, and joint plans of the CSU and the state's community colleges to revitalize transfer programs. Several innovations designed to streamline the transfer process are highlighted, including: (1) community college certification of fulfillment of CSU requirements; (2) students' ability to choose to fulfill the CSU graduation requirements in effect when they began at a community college, when they entered a CSU, or those in effect at graduation; (3) academic performance reports on transfers provided by the CSU to community colleges; (4) CSU fee waivers for Extended Opportunity Programs and Services participants; (5) a booklet and video for prospective community college transfers; (6) discipline-based articulation efforts; (7) the formation of transfer centers on 14 CSU campuses; (8) Project ASSIST, a computerized articulation system; and (9) the California Articulation Number system, providing standardized numbers for courses. A matrix is provided which identifies existing programs and introduces initiatives in four categories: access (i.e., ways to improve outreach activities and the identification of prospective transfers); transition (i.e., initiatives to provide community college students with CSU information, orientation, and assistance to ease transition into the university environment); academic enhancement (i.e., joint efforts by CSU and community college faculty to improve curricular cohesion and support academic articulation between the segments); and general education (i.e., steps necessary to expedite the implementation of the transfer general education curriculum and the certification process). (AYC)