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TAMU-Blinn TEAM Program College Meeting Transition Academic Programs Texas A&M Blinn TEAM Program (Transfer Enrollment at A&M) Dr. Russ Graves Dr. Karl Mooney Director of Programs Director of Advising Transition Academic

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TAMU-Blinn TEAM Program College Meeting

Transition Academic Programs

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Texas A&M Blinn “TEAM” Program (Transfer Enrollment at A&M)

  • Dr. Russ Graves

Director of Programs

Transition Academic Programs Texas A&M University

  • Dr. Karl Mooney

Director of Advising

Transition Academic Programs Texas A&M University

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Congratulations!

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Transition Academic Programs, a unit within the Undergraduate Studies Division, provides: – Academic advising – Accurate, timely information – Administrative Support – Advocacy in support of student success in the TEAM program.

Your “College”

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College Meeting Overview

  • 8:30 – 10:00

Things you need to know before you begin

  • 10:00 – 10:15

Break

  • 10:15 – 11:30

Academic Advising Sessions

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Announcements

  • Please do not use cell phones or

tablets

  • Please remain seated for the entire

presentation

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  • TEAM students must pay attention to twice the

amount of details as most students.

  • You will be enrolled at 2 separate schools

with 2 different sets of rules!

  • Repetition of important information at the A&M

New Student Conferences and Blinn College Advising Days is both intentional and essential to your success.

Announcements

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  • Your top priority is to register for Blinn

courses.

  • Blinn courses are usually filled by the

end of June.

  • At A&M you only need 1 course so

course availability is NOT a problem.

  • You may have to be flexible about that

that 1 course will be.

Announcements

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Freshmen with College Credit:

  • Submit your community college transcripts to

both A&M and Blinn ASAP

  • Dual Credit cannot be awarded from a high

school transcript.

Announcements

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  • Send your AP scores to

A&M and Blinn

  • Do not accept any AP

credits until you talk with an advisor

Announcements

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Sunday, August 28 Reed Arena - 2:30 p.m.

Freshman (’20) Convocation

Announcements

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Purpose of the University Experience

  • Better understand the world
  • Learn to accomplish complicated tasks
  • Develop the ability to function as self-sufficient adults
  • Create lifelong learners

(Note: The purpose of TEAM is to provide more students the

  • pportunity for a four-year Texas A&M University experience.)
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  • Take advantage of study abroad opportunities while at A&M
  • TEAM students studied abroad in Canada (2014) and

Spain (2015, 2016)

To Better Understand the World

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Our Goals for TEAM Students

  • Facilitate students’ full admission at A&M
  • Help students “prepare to declare” their majors
  • Maximize students’ career options through careful course

selection

  • Allow students to graduate without excessive credit hours
  • Excessive hours can lead to extra semesters and expenses
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Goal: Full Admission

3 Methods:

  • 1. Transfer
  • 2. Complete TEAM
  • 45 Blinn hrs/3.0 GPA
  • 15 A&M hrs/3.0 GPA
  • 3. Readmission
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  • Research intended major, determine prerequisite courses
  • DO NOT postpone Math & Science
  • Transfer after only 2 semesters is possible for some majors
  • not Business, Engineering, Biomedical Science, and others
  • Historically, 1/4 of TEAM freshmen transferred after 2 semesters
  • Plan to attend Blinn summer school next year to become

more competitive

  • After starting in TEAM, only Blinn and A&M courses will satisfy

TEAM admission requirements (no hometown summer school)

  • Meet regularly with an A&M Advisor

Plan “A” Full Admission by Transfer

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Plan “B” Full Admission by Completing TEAM

  • Stay “on track” with grades and credit hours at each school
  • Plan to attend Blinn summer school next year
  • After starting in TEAM, only Blinn and A&M courses will satisfy

TEAM admission requirements (no hometown summer school)

  • For timely graduation you need to average 15 credit hours

per semester

  • This often equates to taking five courses per semester.
  • Meet regularly with an A&M advisor
  • It’s possible to complete TEAM early
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  • Major defined: A subject or field of study chosen by a

student to represent his or her principal interest, and upon which a large share of the student’s efforts are concentrated

  • Your A&M major while participating in TEAM is “TEAM”
  • You will not declare a specific, degree-granting major until you are

fully admitted at A&M, but you should be narrowing your choices and eventually follow the curriculum for your desired future major

  • At Blinn you may be asked to declare a Blinn major in the

event you decide to pursue an Associate Degree

  • Blinn doesn’t have the same majors as A&M—choose something

related to your desired major at A&M

What is my Major?

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There are 150+ majors at A&M

  • 65-85% of all college

students change their majors during their academic careers!

  • Academic Advisors

are available to assist

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Access to Majors

  • It is possible for TEAM students to graduate from any

A&M college and department, but some are more challenging to enter than others… Plan ahead.

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  • Advising = GPS
  • Global knowledge of Texas A&M University
  • Academic Majors
  • Policies
  • Processes
  • Positioning students to declare a major
  • Prerequisites, Degree Plans
  • Systems to help students succeed
  • Referrals: Academic Success Center, Student Counseling

Service, Scholarships & Financial Aid, etc.

Advisors “Exist to Assist”

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Academic Advising

  • When should I

meet with an academic advisor?

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Advising Locations

  • Blinn Advising:
  • Blinn Advising & Counseling Center (includes administrative

services)

  • Tejas Center in Bryan
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Advising Locations

A&M Advising (Your primary advising location)

  • Hotard Hall
  • Opposite Northgate
  • Near the water tower
  • Next to the A&M Post Office

Hotard Hall

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Make an Advising Appointment

  • For A&M appointments go to:

http://tap.tamu.edu, click on “Staff, Location, & Hours, and select “Appointment Page”

  • If unsure of available advising walk-in times or advising

appointment times, call 979.845.5916

  • For Blinn appointments go to:

http://www.blinn.edu/advising/hours.html and click on “On Campus Appointments.”

  • If unsure of available advising walk-in times or advising

appointment times, call 979.209.7250

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Communication with Advisors

  • The quality of the advice you get is impacted by the quality
  • f information you provide your advisor
  • There are shorter waiting lines to meet with advisors in

October and February

  • The official means of communication between students and

the university is TAMU email

  • No Texts, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.
  • Always email from your TAMU email account
  • Always include your name & UIN
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Transition Academic Programs Website

http://tap.tamu.edu

Important Notice Area

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TAMU-Blinn TEAM Website

http://blinnteam.tamu.edu/

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Blinn TEAM Blog

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Keys to Success

  • Pay attention to details
  • If you have to do something for one school, ask if you

need to do it for the other

  • Read Your Email daily (A&M and Blinn)
  • Assemble an efficient Blinn/A&M class schedule
  • Attend Class
  • Budget Your Time / Be Disciplined
  • Study Effectively
  • Ask Questions, Seek Help
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Guarantee

If you don’t read and heed TEAM emails you will encounter problems.

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Keys to Success

  • Take personal responsibility
  • Do not rely on your parents take care
  • f your details
  • Give parents access to your grades
  • Sign Certification of Dependency Form
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College deadlines are

REAL

deadlines.

High School vs College

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AP & Dual Credit are not as Rigorous

High School vs College

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Employment

  • Limit to 15 or less hours per week
  • Work Study & other on-campus work
  • pportunities
  • https://jobsforaggies.tamu.edu/
  • Work in Bryan/College Station
  • Work for necessary items only
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Extracurricular Activities

  • Choose from more than 1,000 recognized organizations
  • Meet new friends
  • Develop leadership skills

Limit your involvement to one activity during your first semester NCAA Sports are not available to TEAM students.

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Transportation

  • Campus Bus Route 12 (“Reveille”) connects A&M

with Blinn

  • Schedule one hour between classes when

changing campuses

  • For route and times, go to transport.tamu.edu
  • Catch the earliest bus you can during the first two

weeks while many students are deciding how to best commute between campuses

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GPA Calculation

Formula: Grade Points ÷ GPA Attempted Hours = GPA 13 ÷ 4 = 3.25 Successful Student Example:

Class GPA Credit Hours Grade Grade Points

GEOG 202 3 B (3) 3 x (3) = 9 KINE 198 1 A (4) 1 x (4) = 4 TOTAL 4 13

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Importance of 1st Semester Grades

Semester Hours GPA

Fall ’16 4 1.75 Spr ’17 4 2.50 Fall ’17 4 3.25 Spr ’18 4 4.00 TOTAL : 16 2.87 * * Student does not successfully complete TEAM Program

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Q-Drop

  • State of Texas: Cumulative 6 drops allowed at all Texas colleges
  • Only 4 of your drops may be at A&M
  • 1-hour classes do not count toward the 4 A&M drops, but

do count toward the State limit of 6 total drops

  • Deadline = 60th class day at A&M / 12th week at Blinn
  • Q-Drops do not begin until after the 12th class day at A&M
  • Drops during the first week are schedule adjustments
  • Dropping your only A&M course is actually a withdrawal from

the university!

  • Consider adding a second course (1 or 2 hours) as a safeguard
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GEOG 202 Q 3 hours KINE 198 A 1 hour

Semester credit: 1 hour / A&M GPA: 4.00

Q-Drop

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions for Student Participation 2016- 2018

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

  • Successful completion of the TEAM Program

academic requirements guarantees full admission to Texas A&M University

  • but does not guarantee admission to a particular

college or major.

Guaranteed Admission

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Academic Requirements

TEAM Terms & Conditions

  • 45 Blinn transferable credit hours
  • 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • Courses must be appropriate for the student’s desired major
  • 15 A&M credit hours
  • 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • At least 12 hours must be 3 or 4 hour courses that satisfy degree

requirements

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

For timely graduation you need to average 15 credit hours per semester. This often equates to taking five courses per semester.

  • 45 Blinn transferable credit hours
  • 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • Courses must be appropriate for the student’s desired major
  • 15 A&M credit hours
  • 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • At least 12 hours must be 3 or 4 hour courses that satisfy degree

requirements

Academic Requirements

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

Academic Requirements

  • Transferable credits earned before beginning the TEAM

Program count toward the Blinn 45 credit hour requirement

  • Credit by exam (AP, CLEP, IB, etc.)
  • Dual enrollment
  • Summer school at hometown community colleges
  • Courses completed at other schools after entering TEAM can

satisfy A&M degree requirements, but will not satisfy TEAM academic requirements

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

GPA Calculation

  • A Grade Point Average (GPA) will be calculated at each

institution

  • Grades for all transferable Blinn courses are used in the computation
  • Grades reported as “Incomplete” are computed as F until replaced

with a final grade

  • Only grades for A&M and Blinn courses count toward completion of

the TEAM academic requirements

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

Timely Completion

  • Students must complete the TEAM academic requirements

by end of 1st Summer Session, 2018

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

  • A TEAM student removed from the program for academic
  • r disciplinary reasons will not be permitted continued

enrollment at A&M, and will not be guaranteed full admission to A&M.

  • A TEAM student removed from the program may continue

at Blinn College at the discretion of Blinn College officials.

Removal from TEAM

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TEAM Terms & Conditions

Removal from TEAM

  • A TEAM student may be removed from the program for

not following the enrollment guidelines (minimum 12 hours, one solid academic course at A&M, etc.).

  • A TEAM student who is in good academic standing

(GPA> 2.0), but is not projected to successfully complete the program requirements, or qualify for transfer admission, may be removed from the program.

  • Student progress will be evaluated after freshman year
  • Sophomores will be evaluated at the end of the third semester
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In the Next Session

Attendance of this New Student Conference will be taken after the conclusion of the next session when you sign and submit your TEAM

  • contract. Admission will be cancelled for students who do not

submit a TEAM contract.

  • Advising for Registration
  • Identifying Appropriate Courses
  • Registration procedures
  • Paperwork
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Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

(Generally majors requiring at least one 4-hour calculus course)

  • Biochemistry
  • Biology (not for pre-med)
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Genetics
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Industrial Distribution
  • Mathematics
  • Meteorology
  • Physics
  • Visualization
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Business & Administrative Related Majors

  • Agribusiness
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Economics
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Management Information

Systems

  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Ag. Communication & Journalism
  • Ag. Leadership & Development
  • Communication
  • Telecommunication Media Studies
  • International Studies Commerce
  • Human Resource Development
  • Technology Management
  • Sport Management
  • Community Development
  • Recreation, Parks & Tourism
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Education, Liberal Arts, Architecture & Undecided*

Architecture

  • Construction Science
  • Environmental Design
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Urban & Regional Planning

Liberal Arts

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Communication
  • Humanities
  • Languages

Education (Teaching)

  • Elementary
  • Middle Grades
  • Health Education
  • Physical Education

NOTE: For high school teaching, major in the subject you plan to teach.

* Undecided = “I’m interested in many different majors,” or, “I’m clueless!”

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Pre-Health, Environmental, & Agricultural

  • Agronomy
  • Animal Science
  • Biology (for pre-med)
  • Bioenvironmental

Science

  • Biomedical Science
  • Entomology
  • Environmental Studies
  • Food Science
  • Forensic & Investigative

Sciences

  • Health
  • Horticulture
  • Kinesiology
  • Nutritional Sciences
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15 Minute Intermission

PLEASE SAVE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT SESSION Please return in 15 minutes to the appropriate classroom based

  • n your desired academic major:

Majors Classroom

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Stay in this room Pre-Health, Environmental & Agricultural TBD Business & Administrative TBD Education, Liberal Arts, Architecture & Undecided TBD

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15 Minute Intermission

PLEASE SAVE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT SESSION Please return in 15 minutes to the appropriate classroom based on your desired academic major: Majors Classroom

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Stay in this room Pre-Health, Environmental & Agricultural TBD Business & Administrative TBD Education, Liberal Arts, Architecture & Undecided TBD