Welcome to Transfer Services Orientation

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Networks for Transfer Success
Charlene A. Stinard, Director Transfer and
Transition Services First Year Transitions,
Academic Development and Retention Student
Development and Enrollment Services University of
Central Florida
Presented at The Institute for the Study of
Transfer Students January 2005
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Critical Intervention Stages
Preparation
TTS
Transition
Progression

• Prepare students for successful academic transfer
• Ensure a smooth transition to the university
• Provide services/advocacy for progress to
  graduation

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Office of Transfer and Transition Services

• Provide referral, advocacy, and information for
  students, advisors, faculty, staff, and parents
• Enhance opportunities for academic preparation
  and success
• Promote smooth transition and progress toward
  graduation
• Collaborate with internal and external partners

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University of Central Florida

• 44,000 expected enrollment
• 6,000 transfer students each year
• 25 of Floridas community college transfers
• 6 feeder schools 77 of transfers

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Preparing for Transfer

• Primary information resource for counselors,
  transfer students, and parents
• Publications Counseling Manual, Knight Quest
• Web site (60,000 hits in 2003-04)
• Programs counselor workshop
• Key factor collaboration

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Collaboration

• GradTrack
• Annual collaboration with Valencia CC
• Faculty and staff exchange information
• Transfer and academic advising for students
• Faculty-to-faculty workshops

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Making the Transition

• Pre-admission advising
• Mandatory orientation collaboration
• Student Success program
• Assistance to academic colleges
• Undeclared advising session
• Peer Mentor program
• Been there, done that
• Connecting new students to UCF
• Transfer advising

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Progress Toward Graduation

• Providing services and advocacy
• Transcript problems
• Transfer credit evaluations
• Help with degree audits
• Transfer Success workshop series
• Advising for transitioning students
• Collaboration across the university and with
  community colleges

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Enrollment Growth

• Enrollment increases 5 per year
• State Articulation agreement A.A. preference
• Population growth continues
• FTICs denied attend CC, transfer to UCF
• Services expanded
• 1999 2004
• Contacts 2,000 Contacts 24,000
• Web hits 10,000 Web hits 60,000

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Retention and Graduation

• First year retention A.A. transfers
• 1998-99 76
• 2002-03 81
• First year retention other transfers
• 2002-03 86
• 4-year graduation rate A.A. transfers 68
• 6-year graduation rate FTICs 54

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Articulation

• Articulation agreements
• Increase access, improve academic success
• 30 articulation agreements
• Colleges, universities, schools
• 7 statewide A.S. to B.S. programs
• Capstone A.S. to B.S.

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Recommendations

• All institutions
• Assess programs meeting transfer needs?
• Partner with local and regional institutions
• Promote faculty interactions
• Visit campuses with exemplary programs

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Recommendations

• 2-year institutions
• Develop strong, personal relationships with
  university admissions and advising staff
• Create collaborative programs with 4-year
  partners
• Ask for advising materials annually
• Invite university representatives to campus
• Institute mandatory orientation programs for
  academic planning

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Recommendations

• 4-year institutions
• Create and distribute counseling manual
• Collaborate with CC partners to advise early
• Develop communications tools access for faculty
  and advisors
• Establish a Peer Mentor program
• Require orientation for all transfer students

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Questions and Comments
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• Charlene A. Stinard, Director
• Transfer and Transition Services
• University of Central Florida
• Web site http//transfer.sdes.ucf.edu
• E-mail cstinard_at_mail.ucf.edu

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