Core Responsibilites of a Transfer Center Director

1. Core Responsibilites of a Transfer Center Director December 2013

2. Transfer Center Plan • From Recommended Guidelines • Program History • Purpose of Transfer Center • Minimum Program Standards • Mission Statement • Goals • Identify Activities • Know how to measure outcomes before the activity takes place • SLOAC

3. Transfer Center Plan - what do I do with it? • Use it to plan your calendar of events • Update it with your Advisory Board • Take it around to shared governance committees to get buy-in: academic, classified, administration

4. What is an Advisory Committee?

5. Who serves on the committee? • Who are your stakeholders? • Administrators • Faculty • Staff • Students • University representatives • High school counselors • Independent counselors • Outreach • General Counseling Department counselors • EOPS Director • DSPS

6. How often do we meet? • Depends on your needs • We meet once a semester (early) • Used to meet once a month

7. To do what? • Discuss status of transfer on campus • Discuss status of transfer at university levels • How to impact the “transfer culture” on campus PRESENTATION

8. Each semester, approximately 12,000 individuals of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds attend Miramar College. Students come to our campus for a variety of reasons: Preparation for a new career or advancement in their current job/career Educational development Completion of credits for high school diploma Apprenticeship programs Earn a certificate, license, or an Associate degree Prepare for transfer to a four-year college or university

9. Transfer Services In the General Counseling office, Miramar students are able to speak with a counselor one-on-one regarding the transfer process, develop educational plans and long range planning forms, and sign admission guarantee contracts. In addition, the Transfer Center provides information and resources to assist students in making the transition a smooth and easy one. The Transfer Center offers: • Workshops • Transfer Fairs • Meetings with College representatives • Campus tours • A library of catalogs & publications • Information on transfer guarantees • Computer software for college research • Individual and group counseling Transfer is a collaborative effort at Miramar!

11. UC/CSU Freshman Admission AdmissionsA Comparative look Both CSU and UC use an Eligibility Index - a combination of GPA in required “a-g subjects” and test scores - to determine if students meet eligibility for each respective system. Fact: the average GPA of a student entering UCSD as a freshman is a 4.05 Fact: the average GPA of a student entering SDSU as a freshman is a 3.63

12. AdmissionsA Comparative look Both CSU and UC require transfer students to complete a minimum number of transferable units (usually 60), General Education, Preparation for major courses, and a minimum GPA. UC/CSU Transfer Admission

13. Transfer Admission Guarantees • UCSD UniversityLink – 3.0 GPA • UCSD TAG – 3.5 GPA • SDSU TAG– GPA varies depending on major • UC Davis TAG – GPA varies • UC Santa Cruz TAG – 3.0 GPA • UC Santa Barbara TAG – 3.0 GPA • UC Irvine TAG– 3.0 GPA • UC Riverside TAG – 3.0 GPA

14. UC Los Angeles (TAP) UC Irvine (CCHTP) UC Riverside (HART) UC Santa Cruz USD SDSU (HSTA) Whitman College Pomona College (PATH) Transfer Guarantee ProgramsHonors Transfer Agreements • CSU Fullerton • CSU Dominguez Hills • CSU Stanislaus • Chapman College • Occidental College • Pacific University • Pitzer College

15. Who comes to Miramar? • Students come to Miramar from a variety of different schools with a variety of preparation. • http://research.sdccd.edu/docs/Student%20Profiles/Demographics/20124/CR-Profile_First%20Census_124.pdf

16. Where do our students go? • http://research.sdccd.edu/docs/Student%20Outcomes/Transfer/Transfer%20Report_2012.pdf Volume of transfers includes students enrolled at City, Mesa, Miramar between Summer 1995 and Summer 2004 who earned at least 0.5 units and transferred by August 2004. Data are from National Student Clearinghouse.

17. Other Transfer Institutions • UCs and CSUs outside of the San Diego area • Private/Independent Colleges • Out-of-State Colleges • Distance-learning schools • Historically Black Colleges and Universities

18. Miramar Successes! • Full time Transfer Center Director • Increased transfer to UCSD • General increase in transfer to other schools – CSU Northridge, San Jose State, CSU Fullerton, UCLA, UCI, & UC Riverside

19. Additional Miramar Student Services • Student Affairs • Financial Aid • Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) • Disability Support Programs & Services (DSPS) • Career/Student Employment • Tutoring – The PLACe

20. What is the outcome? • More buy-in from college colleagues • More support from universities • More outreach connection from high schools • Support for additional activities from college administration ULTIMATELY, leads to… MORE STUDENT PARTICIPATION!!!

21. Outreach and Inreach

22. Outreach Coordination • P.19 of recommended guidelines • Outreach office • Administration • Faculty • Students • University representatives • Independent counselors • Human services associations, labor unions, business and industry, special interest organizations

23. Outreach Coordination continued… • Coordinating activities • University representatives can do workshops • Application workshops • Personal statement • WPA • Classroom presentations • Resume reviews • Career search • Transitions 101 • Inviting university representatives to campus • NACAC College Fair • Local education consortium • RACC

24. What do we do at Miramar? • High school visits with outreach officer • High school counselor conferences at Miramar • Presentation at conferences (CSU, UC, share-learn-connect) • Jewish family educational group presentation

25. Inreach • Counseling Department meetings • Other department meetings (faculty and students) • College Executive Cmte presentations • Senate presentations (academic, classified, students) • Tutoring sessions • Ramen recipe booklet • MTAP • Questionnaire • Transfer Awareness Month • End of year celebration • Newsletter • Student clubs and organizations

26. Name:  • What is your current role at Miramar College?  • Office location:  • Which university did you attend?  • What is your best memory of college? • How did you decide to attend your college? • How did you afford college?  • What is your funniest story about college life? • Is there a freshman 15? • What kind of jobs did you have before your current position? • How did you decide to get into your current position?  • Anything else you would like to tell us about college?  • What do you love about your discipline? • Do you have a tip for students looking to transfer? 

27. What is the outcome? • On-campus networking leads to greater transfer culture • More buy-in from college • More buy-in from students • More support from universities – sometimes financial • Can lead to increase in articulations

28. The Part that everybody loves! SLO SLOAC SAO

29. SLO or SLOAC • Student learning? • Service Area? • How does your college measure? • CAS Standards very helpful if you don’t have SLO What do we do at Miramar?

30. Program Review

31. Program Review • Understand the process at your college • Format according to requirements at your college • Annual or something else? • If tied to resource allocation, be sure to put it in there! • Helium Tank • Transfer Mobile

32. WHY do I do all of this? • Advocate for the Transfer Center • Advocate for students • Tie it in with the mission statement of the college – “Transfer” should be a part of the mission statement • Tie it in with numbers – know the research available to you or become best friends with your campus researcher • Serve on committees: Program Review, Research, Academic Senate

33. CCCCO Annual Report

34. Annual Report • Title 5 minimum standards • Facility • Co-located/dedicated • Hours • Administration • Status of Transfer Center Director • Staffing • Challenges • Resources • Barriers

35. Annual Report • SLO • Budget • Certification • Due date October 31st! CCCCO aka BOB QUINN: Report is used for…