This webcast is primarily designed for four-year private institutions who are interested in:

• Growing their transfer student populations on campus;
• Collaborating more effectively with community college partners to do so; and/or
• Building more meaningful and strategic pathways programs on-campus to help transfer students be successful.

We encourage you to participate as an institutional team comprised of representatives from academics, enrollment management, admissions, financial aid, transfer student support, and orientation professionals.

• The “Why”: Making the Case for Transfer Partnerships
  • Current national community college enrollments
  • Connection to institutional goals
  • Financial implications of increased transfer enrollment: sample scenarios
• The “How”: Building Intentional Transfer Pathways
  • Characteristics of effective partnerships with community colleges
  • Addressing transfer student questions and needs
  • Aligning stakeholders
  • Pathway design and construction
  • Metrics of success
  • Institutional examples

More than an articulation agreement, a pathway – however the partner institutions ultimately define it – is characterized by its clarity, sense of direction, ongoing active support, and periodic assessment. Pathways are designed and built on the principle that community college transfer students should be “Junior-Year Ready” when they make the transition to the four-year institution.

As a supplement to the webcast, you will leave the program with a self-audit questionnaire, a detailed worksheet, and a handful of readings and resources in hand to help further conversations about the development of transfer pathway programs on your campus.