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Welcome! Poll Everywhere – Text Your School Name Your Role/Office

Welcome! Poll Everywhere – Text Your School Name Your Role/Office. Jane Rex Director, Office of Transfer Articulation Susan Davies Associate Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management. Session Goals Learn about Appalachian State University’s Jump Start program.

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Welcome! Poll Everywhere – Text Your School Name Your Role/Office

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  1. Welcome! Poll Everywhere – Text Your School Name Your Role/Office

  2. Jane Rex Director, Office of Transfer Articulation Susan Davies Associate Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management

  3. Session Goals • Learn about Appalachian State University’s Jump Start program. • Understand how a transition program like Jump Start could enhance transfer student retention and completion through collaboration with key community college partners and targeted campus programming

  4. What is Jump Start? • A program designed to assist students from three partner community colleges with the transition to the Appalachian’s main campus in Boone with a goal of enhancing transfer student retention and completion.

  5. Why Jump Start? • To understand student needs and risk factors • To create a more seamless transition • To improve retention and graduation

  6. Background • Initial funds - $163,000 • Pilot – February 2012 to June 2012 • Official program started July 2012

  7. Programming features • Full-time Coordinator • Transfer student mentors • Regular presence on campuses • Faculty mentors

  8. Programming features • Campus Visits to Appalachian • Opportunities to meet Appalachian students, faculty and staff • Jump Start Orientation • Regular contact with admitted students via email and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/110608955736300/ • Support at Appalachian • MAP Works Retention Tool

  9. Transfer Student Mentors: The heart of the Jump Start program

  10. Initial Accomplishments • Productive relationships with community colleges • Collaboration across Appalachian’s campus • Jump Start website: http://jumpstart.appstate.edu/

  11. Initial Accomplishments • Transfer-specific Early Registration Advising: http://era.appstate.edu/ • Talking Transfers Newsletter: http://jumpstart.appstate.edu/node/23 • Asssessment and Results

  12. Initial results: • Students not registered for Spring 2013: • All transfer students – 16.5% • Jump Start students – 6.5% • Students not registered for Fall 2013: • All transfer students – 10.9% • Jump Start students – 5.4% Continued…

  13. Initial results continued… • Persistence to first spring of students from Jump Start partner colleges: • 2010 Cohort 92.8% • 2011 Cohort 95.4% • 2012 Cohort 97.7% - first year of Jump Start

  14. Transfer Pre-Orientation Program (T-POP) • Expansion of Jump Start Orientation • Incentives for participation • 120 attendees, 2 one-day sessions in April • Content: Transfer of Credit, Advising and Degree Works, Campus involvement, a campus tour highlighting where services are (Peer Career, Counseling, Health, Advising, LAP, Writing Center, etc.) • Feedback

  15. Lessons learned: • Establishing relationships takes time • Getting the message out is very difficult • “Transfer students don’t want…” • Disappearing students • Continuing outreach

  16. Future Directions: • Gentle expansion • Other top partner community colleges in the region • Online presence across NC • Road maps • Transfer student club

  17. Questions? Jane Rex, rexjm@appstate.edu Susan Davies, daviess@appstate.edu

  18. For more information: Phil Lewis Coordinator, Jump Start Appalachian lewisp@appstate.edu 828 262 7877 jumpstart.appstate.edu

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