How Do We Get Started

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How Do We Get Started?

• College Transition for Adult Students

CHAEA , 2006 Lorri Ague, Crown College
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Three Considerations for Discussion

• Why Transition is Important?
• Key Ingredients to Consider in Planning a
  Transition Program!
• An Example Action Plan Crown College
• Comments

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Why is transition is Important?

• Developing students to be successful is what we
  are about.
• Academically
• Developmentally
• Interpersonally
• Bottom line Retention!!

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Why is transition is Important?
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Key Ingredients to Consider

• Program Design
• Although it might not be possible to run a
  separate college transition component for
  non-traditional students, it is possible to
  incorporate ideas into your current program
  offerings

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Program Design Cont.

• The program design should consider your unique
  college context.
• The program design should consider the needs of
  students.
• Transition activities or classes should support
  the retention initiatives.

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Program Evaluation

• Assessment of the program should be intentional

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Action Plan Crown College

• Three Stages
• Enrollment Stage
• Orientation to Program Stage
• Continuing Student Stage

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Enrollment Stage

• Enrollment Counselor
• Information Facilitation
• Support for the Transition

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Orientation Program

• First Night this is the hand off from
  enrollment to academics
• Academic Considerations

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Student Comment . . .

• Thank you so much for that class. I will tell
  you that Strategies is probably one of the best
  classes anyone can take to be introduced to Crown
  and to the adult student world. That class made
  a huge difference in my view of college.
• Dale Inman--Spring, 2006

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Continuing Students

• Student Support Services
• Educational Workshops
• Spiritual Formation

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• I wanted to share a sincere Thank You for your
  involvement in my finishing my degree last night
  (pending a passing grade in Thesis of course).
• Emily was the first person I had met on my
  initial visit to Crown - and after about 15
  minutes I had decided I was going to finish my
  bachelors at Crown. Emily had represented Crown
  very well - and was sincerely excited about
  adding students to the CCAP program, which really
  does excite the students.
• Lorri was the Prof for my first class. GPA - I
  had considered it to be a "fluff" class of no
  real value, but Lorri made it personal and the
  class ended up being a nice transition for me
  personally into Crown. I still reference some of
  my materials from GPA (personal goals has been
  updated) - and I assure you that is not normal
  for me. I also considered Lorri to be a model of
  Leadership.
• Finally the Professors, I cannot list them all
  but specifically Russ Erickson, Craig Harmon,
  Dennis Ingolfsand, Laila Bechtle, Ken Volker and
  Al Prentice are all not only gifted instructors,
  but also wonderful people as well and you are
  blessed to have them on your team.
• Tim Duckworth
• 2005 Graduate

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• A good transition is a connection for life- a
  tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to
  sanity in a totally insane world