Monday, July 29, 2024
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

From Inquiry to Graduation — Initiatives that Offer Comprehensive Support and Clear Pathways 

Foster an environment and support programs that help transfer students overcome feelings of anxiety and stress, along with confusion as to how to be successful in their educational goals. By providing a clear pathway to meet their needs, you will help improve transfer students’ completion rates, engagement, and retention.

Join us on Monday, July 29, 2024, as our two expert presenters share their nationally recognized transfer program initiatives and insights as to how they became one of the leading transfer institutions in the nation. They will share how the program leverages technology and personalized services to ensure students are major-ready, which is crucial for timely graduation and successful career outcomes. Help your transfer students thrive in a competitive marketplace – which will help improve your enrollment numbers too.

Deliberately structure your programs to facilitate the completion of degrees for transfer students through ongoing refinement of policies and practices that influence the transfer experience design to remove obstacles and simplify their pathway.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Create innovative strategies in developing transfer partnerships with 2-year and 4-year institutions that provide successful outcomes for students.
  
• Implement practical ideas that promote and support transfer student readiness and success, resulting in a positive transition to your campus and crossing the graduation stage.
  
• Develop collaborative initiatives (such as the TEAMS project) among partners that focus on enhancing major readiness and facilitating the success of transfer students.
  
• Design a tangible transfer success center model and action plan to ensure success.
  
• Enhance and evolve your current program to focus on the successful and timely completion of all transfer students, developing strategies for major and transfer readiness while supporting the access mission of your institution.

Presenters

Kimberly Hardy, Ph.D. currently serves as the Assistant Vice Provost for UCF Connect at the University of Central Florida, one of the largest universities in the nation where more than fifty percent of students are transfer students.
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Angelia Smith currently serves as the Director of Academic Support Services for UCF Connect and currently holds the position of inaugural Director of the Transfer Center within the division of Student Success and Well Being at the University of Central Florida (UCF).
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