Transfer student success A presentation by: Zoe Bastone
Overview of themes ◎ Who is this community? ◎ What is the process of transferring like? ◎ What are our responsibilities to this community?
Theme 1: Who is this community?
Defining Transfer students ● “A student at a college or university who has completed classes at another college or university after leaving high school.” ● May have completed classes at a community college. ● May have attended a prior four year institution. ● Less common, transfer from four year institution to a two year institution. Oxford English Dictionary (ND).
Defining this population Age ? ◎ Race? ◎ Socio-economic ◎ background? Educational ◎ background? Image credit: CC
Defining further ◎ First Generation Students ◎ Veterans ◎ Disabled ◎ Head of Household ◎ Part or full time worker ◎ On campus vs. commuter
Theme 2: ◎ What is the process of transferring like?
2 Imagine what it is like to transfer to a new school...
Things you need to learn on the fly ◎ How to register for classes? ◎ Navigation of campus ◎ Who to ask for help? ◎ Will my work be good enough? ◎ How can I fit in?
Transfer shock Termed coined in 1965 ◎ Student success dip ◎ Personal experience that ◎ can vary in length or severity. Image credit: CC
The Anxiety of Change: How New Transfer Students Overcome Challenges Overall Realities Expectations ◎ Bumpy ◎ Seamless transition transition ◎ Lack of ◎ Excitement clarity ◎ Prepared ◎ Lack of support ◎ Anxiety (Chin-Newman and Shaw, 2013)
The Anxiety of Change: How New Transfer Students Overcome Challenges Part 2 What should they be expecting? Support ◎ Technological ◉ Advisory ◉ Communication from institutions ◎ Extracurricular programs ◎
Theme 3: What are our responsibilities to this community?
“ “... transfer students do not transfer in a vacuum. Rather, they bring with them cumulative experiences about how college works: how to choose a major, how to enroll in classes, how to study, how to interact with professors and other aspects of collegiate life.” --Robison, M (2017)
Web Resources CCRC ACE ◎ Cafeteria ◎ Call for stronger model vs. counseling guided ◎ Communication pathways between ◎ Degree institutions completion ◎ Connection
Rationalizing Neglect Article serves to examine: Institutional structures ◎ and policies, Personal perceptions ◎ and interventions, and Internal and external ◎ environmental conditions. (Tobolowsky and Cox, 2012)
“ “Specifically, faculty and staff members mentioned two characteristics of transfer students that make them a particularly hard population to serve: (a) the students’ incredible diversity and (b) their frequent false assumptions about the institution.” (Tobolowsky and Cox, 2012)
Findings: Rationalizing Neglect ◎ Need for assessment ◎ Building cultural competency ◎ Institutional support
Poll: how involved do you think academic libraries are?
A word on library involvement... Image Credit: CC
Connecting Information Literacy ◎ Building of academic confidence ◎ Bridging the gap between resources from former institution and current. ◎ Reinforcement that information is contextual. ◎ Do not mind being singled out (Robison, 2013)
Connecting information literacy instruction with transfer student success Information literacy sessions as a way to ◎ introduce the institution. A time to provide individualized ◎ information that benefits this community. But...will they have them? ◎
Through Three Lenses ◎ Note that literature is scant ◎ Serves higher ed and LIS research ◎ Acknowledgment in higher ed needed (Sandelli, 2017)
Through Three Lenses How to provide services? ◎ NISTS founded: ◎ continuing education Understanding of what ◎ services the institution wants to provide. Image Credit: CC
Through Three Lenses ◎ Subject librarian utilization ◎ Meeting students where they are ◎ Should libraries treat transfer students as a whole or as subgroup?
Summary Expectations Realities ◎ Easy Guidance ◎ Communication ◎ transition ◎ Instruction ◎ Prepared ◎ Outreach ◎ Aware
Things to consider going forward ◎ Transfer students are diverse in nature. ◎ No clear distinctions ◎ Debate as to what the best way to serve this population is.
How do we proceed? Be conscientious ◎ Outreach ◎ Assessment ◎ Teamwork ◎ More research ◎ Advising ◎ Image Credit CC
References Chin-Newman, C. S., & Shaw, S. T. (2013). The Anxiety of ◎ Change: How New Transfer Students Overcome Challenges. Journal of College Admission , (221), 14-21 Community College Research Center. (2017). What we ◎ know about guided pathways. Retrieved from: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/What- We-Know-Guided-Pathways.pdf Robison, M. (2017). Connecting information literacy ◎ instruction with transfer student success. Reference Services Review: RSR., 45(3), 511-526. DOI: 10.1108/RSR-10-2016-0065
References Sandelli, A. (2017). Through three lenses: Transfer ◎ students and the library. Reference Services Review: RSR., 45(3), 400-414. DOI: 10.1108/RSR-10-2016-0074 Tobolowsky, B., & Cox, B. (2012). Rationalizing ◎ Neglect: An Institutional Response to Transfer Students. The Journal of Higher Education , 83(3), 389-410. Turk, J. (2017). Reducing barriers to transfer for ◎ community college students. [blog post]. Retrieved from: https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/05/01/reducing -barriers-transfer-community-college-students/ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ◎
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