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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.

Defining this population

◎ Age ? ◎ Race? ◎ Socio-economic background? ◎ Educational background?

◎ First Generation Students ◎ Veterans ◎ Disabled ◎ Head of Household ◎ Part or full time worker ◎ On campus vs. commuter

Defining further

Theme 2:

◎ What is the process of transferring like?

Imagine what it is like to transfer to a new school...

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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.

Overall Expectations ◎ Seamless transition ◎ Excitement ◎ Prepared

The Anxiety of Change: How New Transfer Students Overcome Challenges

Realities ◎ Bumpy transition ◎ Lack of clarity ◎ Lack of support ◎ Anxiety

What should they be expecting? ◎ Support ◉ Technological ◉ Advisory ◎ Communication from institutions ◎ Extracurricular programs

The Anxiety of Change: How New Transfer Students Overcome Challenges

Part 2

Theme 3:

What are our responsibilities to this community?

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“...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 model vs. guided pathways ◎ Degree completion ◎ Connection ◎ Call for stronger counseling ◎ Communication between institutions

Rationalizing Neglect

Article serves to examine: ◎ Institutional structures and policies, ◎ Personal perceptions and interventions, and ◎ Internal and external environmental conditions.

(Tobolowsky and Cox, 2012)

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“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...

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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?

◎ Note that literature is scant ◎ Serves higher ed and LIS research ◎ Acknowledgment in higher ed needed

Through Three Lenses

(Sandelli, 2017)

Through Three Lenses

◎ How to provide services? ◎ NISTS founded: continuing education ◎ Understanding of what services the institution wants to provide.

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Through Three Lenses ◎ Subject librarian utilization ◎ Meeting students where they are ◎ Should libraries treat transfer students as a whole or as subgroup?

Summary

Expectations ◎ Easy transition ◎ Prepared ◎ Aware Realities

◎ Guidance ◎ Communication

◎ Instruction ◎ Outreach

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

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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/

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