One of the key commitments of the Community College Research Initiatives (CCRI's) STEM Transfer Partnership (STP) program is to transform STEM transfer pathways and improve outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds using student input. Student input is an essential element in institutional transformation for student success but the process of cultivating student input involves creative rethinking of data collection strategies. This data note documents the collaborative work of community college and university partnerships to collect student input and translate that data into improvements in the STEM transfer pathway. The authors find that these partnerships are developing contextually responsive, multifaceted strategies for incorporating student input that prioritize student engagement and clarifying information systems.