Today’s College Students: Core Values for Building Transfer Student Success

1. Today’s College Students: Core Values for Building Transfer Student Success Dr. Mark Allen Poisel July 16, 2013

2. AACRAO Transfer ConferenceDetermining New Pathways Towards Student Success

3. What Today’s Students Hear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

4. National and State Implications Greater emphasis on accountability from legislatures and US DOE Greater emphasis on earning a bachelor’s degree Enhanced role of the community college Funding based on access, performance, and success, not just enrollment

5. Focus on Transfer Students Establish a transfer friendly environment Learn about your students via data Assess your culture & programs Develop good policies and procedures Build strong relationships and partnerships Prepare students for transfer Enhance student engagement

6. Transfer Pathway Create an institution-wide vision that includes transfer students Treat transfers in outreach, admission, academic, and student affairs with a devotion similar to that of first-year students Understand that the needs of transfer students may be different than those of first-year students (Handel, 2011)

7. Transfer Student Success Transition Where YOU fit in Preparation Progression • Help students early or before they arrive • Work with them during the transition and first year • Help them graduate and move on to the next stage

8. Preparation • Assistance • Communication • Information

9. Transition • First Year • Resources • Communication

10. Progression • Academics • Intergration • Graduation

11. Core Values • Collaboration • Advocacy • Engagement • Success

12. Collaboration • Build relationships and partnerships • Involve faculty, staff, and students • Create programming and services • Encourage curriculum alignment Partner-> Create->Succeed

13. Partnerships and Programs • Articulation agreements • Common syllabi and courses • Workshops and programs • Shared facilities, faculty and staff • Concurrent enrollment • Advisor workshops • Decision days and joint advisement programs • Shared curriculum guides • Presentations in CC classes and before graduation

14. Advocacy • Be intentional about transfers • Establish a transfer friendly environment • Develop good policies and procedures • Tell the transfer story

15. Advocacy Initiatives • Establish a transfer success committee • Perform a campus audit of the transfer culture • Recommend specific transfer policies or procedures • Develop feedback mechanisms • Create a communication tool to highlight the successes of transfer students

16. Engagement • Focus on student engagement • Create first-year programming • Establish a role for student leaders • Connect to organizations

17. Engagement Activities • Student organizations for transfers • Leadership and service programs • Peer mentoring roles • Undergraduate research opportunities • Inclusive activities and academic workshops

18. Success • Prepare students for transfer • Focus on the transition • Emphasize academic success • Measure student learning outcomes

19. Programs and Services • Transfer centers • Transfer orientation and welcome week • Parent/family programs • Transfer student success seminars • Peer mentoring and ambassador programs • Financial management workshops • Veterans programs • Transfer fairs for students and their families • On-line transfer guides

20. Recommendations Know your students Know their needs and wants Establish networks and partnerships Involve faculty, staff, and students Learn from other efforts Implement collaborative programs Remember transfer students in policy discussions

21. Today’s College Students: Core Values for Building Transfer Student Success Dr. Mark Allen Poisel July 16, 2013