Targeted Transfer Student Support Interventions (Webinar)
April 12th, 2022 | 2:00 p.m. ET - 3:15 p.m. ET | $395
Strategies to help college professionals retain transfer students.
Why This Topic Matters
Transfer students make up a large number of college students on any campus (even in 2021). The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that almost 60 percent of all college seniors have attended more than one institution during their college careers; and the National Science Foundation reports that around 40 percent of science and engineering bachelor’s and master’s degrees are awarded to students who previously attended a two-year colleges (in Aronson 2011).
Yet, campuses often do not provide effective enough support to this large population of students. Transfer students are more likely to feel marginalized and isolated than non-transfer students (National Survey of Student Engagement 2009). Thus administrators need better more innovative ways to both retain transfer students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Who Should Attend?
This program is ideal for all college professionals and/or administrators who oversee transfer student success. including student advisors, career coaches and faculty looking for tried-and-tested ways to retain transfer students.This program is designed specifically for:
Transfer Student Success Program Coordinators and Administrators
Directors of Academic Advising
Academic Deans, Provosts and Vice Presidents Who Oversee Transfer Student Success
Overview
In this webinar, you will learn practical and effective tips and strategies you can use to support your transfer students. This highly interactive and engaging webinar will extend beyond merely reflecting on the experiences of transfer students and their needs; it will also offer you concrete replicable tools to help you immediately begin to improve ways you engage and support the transfer students at your institutions.
The webinar will present case studies based on successful interventions at Virginia Tech through their Hokie Transfer Community program. 30.5% of incoming transfer students at Virginia Tech identify as first-generation in their family to potentially graduate college. The Hokie Transfer Community program has positively impacted this group of students and Virginia Tech’s transfer student population at large despite the pandemic. It has, for example, enabled a staggering 98% rate in transfer student retention in Fall 2020 and significant improvements in transfer student satisfaction and college work after transfer.
Agenda
You will interact with the presenters and your peers to consider takeaways or avenues of approach that may benefit transfer students on your respective campus. You will gain tangible insights into how transitional programs can be designed to better engage transfer student populations. Programs to be discussed include:
Peer mentor programs
'FYE' courses
Transfer student Living Learning Community
General welcome/social events designed exclusively for transfer students
Pricing and Webinar Connection Information
Live Webinar Site Connection and On-Demand Recording $395
Includes:
5 connections for staff members from your institution with each registration (only during the health crisis)
Connection information sent one week prior to the event and again the day before the event. Any questions can be emailed to the program contact at the bottom of this web page.
An electronic link containing a recording of the webinar and resources emailed to you within 7 business days following the live webinar date (active for 30 days). The link can be shared with your entire staff to view the recording.
Follow-up resources and assignments to help you implement your learning.
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Instructor
Nasim Schwab, Assistant Director of Transfer Student Initiatives, Virginia Tech
Nasim Schwab has over 13 years of higher education experience and has a passion for working with transfer students and making sure they feel welcomed and included at their new institution. She served as the Director of Advising for the College of Business and Economics at Radford University for 7 years and in that role also served as the primary academic advisor for new transfer students in the Accounting, Finance, and Economics majors. In May 2018 Nasim transitioned to Virginia Tech (VT) as the Assistant Director of Transfer Student Initiatives. In this role Nasim provides leadership in the development, implementation, and assessment of holistic university-wide programs and initiatives for VT’s transfer students (i.e., a mentor program, Living Learning Community, 1-credit transition course, National Transfer Student week programming, etc.) that create a seamless transition and integration of VT's transfer students into the campus community and promote student success. In her role Nasim also advises transfer students as they transition from prospect, to applicant, to admitted student and teaches a section of the 1-credit transfer student transition course.
Questions about the program?
Please email Laurel at training@eduology.org.