Lumina Foundation For Education has funded many efforts to improve the educational outcomes of students, institutions and agencies in higher education. In addressing systemic issues in education achievement--and specifically college completion--Lumina has been a leading organization supporting initiatives to understand and overcome the many, varied challenges to college-going and baccalaureate degree completion, especially among disadvantaged people. Through projects such as KnowHow2Go, promoting strategies for college-going among poor and minority youth, and Achieving the Dream, helping community college students to succeed, Lumina has provided both thought and strategic leadership. This research project has been supported by Lumina with the purpose of identifying and promulgating best practices in statewide transfer and articulation systems in public higher education. This literature review is intended to serve as an overview of the studies that are relevant to Lumina's research. It is not, however, a comprehensive literature review of all areas of articulation and transfer, nor does it include many interesting topics that, while somewhat related to the topic of the present research, are beyond its scope. (Contains 24 endnotes.)