Welcome! Poll Everywhere – Text Your School Name Your Role/Office
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Welcome!Poll Everywhere – Text
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Jane RexDirector, Office of Transfer Articulation
Susan DaviesAssociate Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management
• Session Goals
Learn about Appalachian State University’s Jump Start program.
Understand how a transition program like Jump Start could enhance transfer student retention and completion through collaboration with key community college partners and targeted campus programming
• What is Jump Start?
A program designed to assist students from three partner community colleges with the transition to the Appalachian’s main campus in Boone with a goal of enhancing transfer student retention and completion.
• Why Jump Start? To understand student needs and risk factors To create a more seamless transition To improve retention and graduation
• Background Initial funds - $163,000 Pilot – February 2012 to June 2012 Official program started July 2012
• Programming features Full-time Coordinator Transfer student mentors Regular presence on campuses Faculty mentors
• Programming features Campus Visits to Appalachian
Opportunities to meet Appalachian students, faculty and staff
Jump Start Orientation Regular contact with admitted students via email and
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/110608955736300/ Support at Appalachian
MAP Works Retention Tool
Transfer Student Mentors:
The heart of the Jump Start program
• Initial Accomplishments Productive relationships with community colleges Collaboration across Appalachian’s campus Jump Start website: http://jumpstart.appstate.edu
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• Initial Accomplishments Transfer-specific Early Registration Advising:
http://era.appstate.edu/ Talking Transfers Newsletter:
http://jumpstart.appstate.edu/node/23 Asssessment and Results
• Initial results: Students not registered for Spring 2013:
All transfer students – 16.5% Jump Start students – 6.5%
Students not registered for Fall 2013: All transfer students – 10.9% Jump Start students – 5.4%
Continued…
• Initial results continued… Persistence to first spring of students from Jump
Start partner colleges:
2010 Cohort 92.8% 2011 Cohort 95.4% 2012 Cohort 97.7% - first year of Jump Start
• Transfer Pre-Orientation Program (T-POP) Expansion of Jump Start Orientation Incentives for participation 120 attendees, 2 one-day sessions in April
Content: Transfer of Credit, Advising and Degree Works, Campus involvement, a campus tour highlighting where services are (Peer Career, Counseling, Health, Advising, LAP, Writing Center, etc.)
Feedback
• Lessons learned: Establishing relationships takes time Getting the message out is very difficult “Transfer students don’t want…” Disappearing students Continuing outreach
• Future Directions: Gentle expansion
Other top partner community colleges in the region Online presence across NC
Road maps Transfer student club
• Questions?Jane Rex, [email protected] Davies, [email protected]
• For more information:
Phil LewisCoordinator, Jump Start [email protected] 262 7877
jumpstart.appstate.edu