The Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU) launched the "Powered by Publics: Scaling Student Success" initiative in the fall of 2018. The South Eastern Cluster brought together a diverse set of institutions from this region of the country that included several of the larger universities, the North Carolina System Office and its regional universities, as well as a group of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in this region. The South Eastern Cluster decided that the success of transfer students should be the focus for improving student success at their institutions. In this report, the authors provide insights and a view across institutions as to how the cluster works with state agencies and each other to provide students pathways across institutions, programming in support of their success, and the work done to develop key metrics for assessment. The authors provide some detail on the perspectives of the four states on the transfer of credit, as well as detailing some of the key transfer student success programs and initiatives that have been implemented at each of the institutions and across the North Carolina System of institutions. They also provide some reflection on the difficulties encountered in developing a comparable transfer student success data set across institutions, much of this difficulty resulting from a lack of consistency in defining the metrics used for assessment. Finally, they provide some insight into lessons learned from this collaboration and on how institutions focus on student success. The authors' hope is that other academic leaders can find some takeaways for building successful programs and initiatives at their institutions, leading to the success of transfer students, with more of them obtaining their degrees.