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Transferring Just Became Easier

Transferring Just Became Easier. Presented by: Marilyn Marshall, u.select Illinois Project Director. Agenda. Statewide Transfer Tools What is u.select Live Demonstration u.select Illinois Project Join u.select. Prevalence of Transfer. 60% of graduates earn transfer credit

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Transferring Just Became Easier

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  1. Transferring Just Became Easier Presented by: Marilyn Marshall, u.select Illinois Project Director

  2. Agenda • Statewide Transfer Tools • What is u.select • Live Demonstration • u.select Illinois Project • Join u.select

  3. Prevalence of Transfer • 60% of graduates earn transfer credit • 50,000 students transfer among Illinois institutions each fall • More minority students attend Illinois community colleges

  4. Transfer in Illinois

  5. Complexity of Transfer

  6. Statewide Transfer Tools • Launched in 1998 • Home of Illinois Articulation Initiative • IAI is a statewide articulation agreement • www.iTransfer.org • Launched in 2002 • u.select is a tool to show individual students how IAI and other articulation agreements effect them. • www.iTransfer.org/uselect

  7. What is u.select? • Online transfer advising tool • Allows students and advisors to: • Explore colleges and universities • Obtain degree requirements • View course-by-course equivalencies • Monitor progress towards a degree • It is a free service funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and supported by the participating institutions.

  8. Who can use u.select? • Students • Community College, University and High School • Advisors • Academic, Transfer, Admissions and Faculty • School Administrators • Parents

  9. Let’s see how it works… www.iTransfer.org/uselect www.transfer.org

  10. u.select Tools Schools Programs View degree requirements by major at participating colleges and universities. Access links to different student services such as Admissions, Registrations and Financial Aid. Course Equivalencies Demonstrates how courses transfer from one institution to another. Transfer Plans Run a personalized degree report to see how courses will transfer and apply to a specific institution.

  11. U Select an Approach: Advising with u.select

  12. How to utilize u.select during an advising session • As a Guest • Access to basic u.select tools: Schools, Programs and Course Equivalency • As a User – it’s free! • Access to all u.select tools • Save your profile, courses, plans

  13. U Select Your Approach Introduce • Guest • CEGs • Bookmark Individualize • Create History • Run Planning Guide • Half card step-by-step • Illustrate • Prepared History • Selected Planning Guides • Bookmark

  14. U Select Your Approach: Introduce • Amount of advising time with students • 15-30 minutes • Approach • Use Guest Login • Show Course Equivalency Guides • Look at Programs • Focus on specific major courses • Print Planning Guide if requested • Distribute bookmark for student to create account

  15. U Select Your Approach: Illustrate • Amount of advising time with students • - 30 minutes • Approach • - Login to personal account or general advisor account • - Explain Planning Guides • My Courses contains courses most commonly taken by students • Planning Guides are completed for most popular programs and institutions • - Print or email Planning Guides

  16. U Select Your Approach: Individualize • Amount of advising time with students • - 30 minutes • Approach • - Login to general advisor account or create student’s account • Load My Courses • Walk students through Add a Course • Utilize Request Import • - Create a Planning Guide with student • - Print or email Planning Guides

  17. u.select Illinois Project Statewide Project

  18. u.select nationwide u.select is a statewide system in: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oregon and Ohio

  19. u.select Illinois Project • Illinois Participating Institutions • 12 Public Universities • 48 Community Colleges • 7 Independent Institutions

  20. Participation • Course Listing • Annual submission • Eight fields >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> • Course Equivalencies and URLs • Requires online transfer articulation tables • Transfer Plans • Requires automated degree audit system >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> • Request Import

  21. Receiving Institutions • Planning Guide, Course Equivalency Guide and Course Listing implemented: • DePaul University • Eastern Illinois University • Illinois State University • Southern Illinois U at Edwardsville (Fall 2009) • U of Illinois at Chicago • U of Illinois at Springfield • U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • West Suburban College of Nursing • Western Illinois University • Course Equivalency Guide and Course Listing implemented: • Bradley U • College Of DuPage • National-Louis U • Northern Illinois U • Southern Illinois U at Carbondale • Course Equivalency Guide or Course Listing implemented: • Chicago State U • Governors State U (implementation Spring 2010) • Loyola U Chicago • Northeastern Illinois COD CSU DePaul GSU Loyola National-Louis NEIU UIC West Suburban NIU Bradley ISU WIU UIUC UIS EIU SIUE SIUC

  22. Sending Institutions Course listings implemented: • Black Hawk C. • Bradley U. • Chicago State U. • City Colleges of Chicago • College of DuPage • Danville Area CC. • DePaul U. • Eastern Illinois U. • Elgin CC. • W. R. Harper C. • Heartland CC. • Highland CC. • Illinois Central C. • Illinois Eastern CCs. • Illinois State U. • Illinois Valley CC. • Joliet JC. • Kankakee CC. • Kaskaskia C. • Kishwaukee C. • C. of Lake County • Lake Land C. • Lewis & Clark CC. • Lincoln Land CC. • John A. Logan C. • MacCormac C. • McHenry CC. • Moraine Valley CC. • Morton C. • National-Louis U. • Northern Illinois U. • Oakton CC. • Parkland C. • Prairie State C. • Rend Lake C. • Richland CC. • Rock Valley C. • Saint Augustine C. • Carl Sandburg C. • Sauk Valley CC. • Shawnee CC. • South Suburban C. • Southeastern Illinois C. • Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale • Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville • Southwestern Illinois C. • Spoon River C. • Triton C. • U. of Illinois at Chicago • U. of Illinois at Springfield • U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Waubonsee CC. • West Suburban C. of Nursing • Western Illinois U. • John Wood CC.

  23. Request Import Institutions • Black Hawk C. • City Colleges of Chicago • College of DuPage • Elgin CC. • Illinois Eastern CC • Lewis & Clark • Lincoln Land CC (Fall 2009) • Moraine Valley CC • Carl Sandburg C • Sauk Valley CC • U of Illinois Chicago (Fall 2009) • U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2009) • U of Illinois Springfield (Fall 2009)

  24. u.select Illinois • www.iTransfer.org/uselect • Explore colleges and universities • Obtain degree requirements • View course-by-course equivalencies • Monitor progress towards a degree • U Select Your Approach • Introduce, illustrate, individualize • Participation • Course listing, CEG, Transfer Plan, RI

  25. u.select Team (vacant) Visiting Project Coordinator 217-244-0931 Marilyn Marshall Project Director 217-333-3079 mmmurphy@uillinois.edu Warren Osborne Technical Coordinator 217-351-2535 wosborne@parkland.edu

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