Education policy has increasingly utilized collaboration as a critical mechanism for improving educational outcomes by encouraging alignment along the K-16 pipeline, making transfer processes more efficient and cost-effective, and striving to align education credentials with workforce demands. However, there is extensive variation in the degree to which policies promote or inhibit collaboration between colleges and universities. In this Data Note, we present a case in which state level higher education policy has evolved over time to increasingly encourage colleges and universities to work together to improve transfer outcomes. [For Data Note 4, see ED608149.]