Studying Transfers

Colleges and universities are increasingly recruiting transfer students and learning more about best practices to recruit and graduate these students. The University of North Texas, home to the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students, will host its seventh annual conference Jan. 21 to 23.

Stephen Handel, senior director of Community College Initiatives for the College Board, will be the keynote speaker on Jan. 22 on “Community Colleges, Four-Year Institutions, and the Transfer Student: Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” Thursday also will include an address  by Marc Cutright, associate professor of higher education at UNT, will give an address on the state of transfer student research. Lori Varlotta, vice president for student affairs at Sacramento State University, will be the keynote speaker on Friday, discussing how to use the College Portrait, a template that allows universities to increase their level of transparency, including student success and learning outcomes, as an informational and recruitment tool for transfer students. 

Pre-conference workshops will cover advising transfer students, how schools can improve the transfer process, cultivating faculty relationships to foster successful transfer programs, orientation and transition issues, and transfer research.

Registration is still available; click here for more information.