Transfer Counselor Website & Transfer Leadership Center
A project funded by the California Community College System Office:
This is an $800,000 grant for the Transfer Counselor Website & Transfer Leadership Center. Dr. Andreea Serban, Superintendent/President serves as the director for this two-year project (June 1, 2007 – April 30, 2009). A contractual agreement was established with Butte College which has responsibility for the Transfer Counselor Website component of this project. Santa Barbara City College took the lead for the Transfer Leadership Center component under Dr. Serban's direction. The latter is developed by working in collaboration with the State System Office, the Center for Student Success (CSS) of the Research and Planning Group of California Community Colleges, and California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS). Both project components utilize advisory committees to guide content development and methodologies. In addition, the Transfer Leadership Center benefit from the expertise of a national review panel.
The outcome of the Transfer Counselor Website project is a well-crafted and up-to-date website designed specifically to support the efforts of transfer counselors across the California Community College system. The website will be a central repository of key information related to effective community college transfer practices, updated transfer admission requirements,counselor conference information, web links and information for public and private universities, transfer related associations and state agencies involved in transfer functions as well as relevant materials, resources and institutional links to help counselorsmaximize the sharing of transfer information.
The Transfer Leadership Center conducts the most comprehensive research to date on California Community College transfers and effective transfer practices and strategies. The project will establish a data warehouse that will contain extensive transfer information to be housed at the System Office after completion of the project and will be available for access statewide. The project will incorporate a comprehensive literature review of transfer practices and strategies. The quantitative research will include analyses of transfer data by college, analyses of transfer rates of various student cohorts along with an analysis of use of various student services and their relationship to transfer rates. The qualitative research will investigate practices and strategies utilized by colleges identified as having overall and specific student cohort high transfer rates. In addition, to the extent possible, the cost of such practices and strategies will be quantified.
Part of the qualitative research, the team conducted seven case studies of California community colleges with higher-than-expected transfer rates. Each case study is based on a site visit conducted in Spring 2008 by two Center for Student Success researchers to document and investigate the full spectrum of factors, inventions, strategies and practices that each college is implementing to support transfer. Below are the seven case studies and a cross analysis that synthesizes the seven case studies.
Cross analysis De Anza College Case Study
Irvine Valley College Case Study
Los Angeles Southwest College Case Study
Porterville College Case Study
Reedley College Case Study
San Diego City College Case Study
Skyline College Case Study
