Ensuring Transfer Success 2014 Stephen J. Handel Associate Vice President, Undergraduate Admissions

Agenda UC Transfer Action Team Other Updates Ongoing Initiatives Questions and Answers Campus Updates Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

UC Transfer Action Team President Napolitano chose to focus on transfer in her first six months UC Transfer Action Team: UC faculty, staff, and students Goal: strengthen and streamline UC transfer Consultation with leadership at CSU and CCC Panel of former transfer students met with the President and the Transfer Action Team Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Team Charge: Three Questions Demand: Why have applications from CCC students declined? Diversity: What can be done to improve geographical and other types of diversity in UC’s transfer classes? Transparency: What can be done to simplify transfer? “Many California students begin their higher education journey at a community college, yet yearn for the opportunity to earn a four-year degree. We must continue to support the access and success of the diversity of the California community college population.” Janet Napolitano (2014) Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

UC Applications from CA Resident CCC Transfers Full year except 2013-14 and 2014-15 Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Transfer Diversity 25% of CCC transfers come from 7 CCCs All 112 CCCs sent at least 1 student to UC Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

4-year/2-year graduation rate 6-year/4-year graduation rate UC Transfer Success: Graduation Rates Freshmen Transfers 4-year/2-year graduation rate 61.9% 53.2% 6-year/4-year graduation rate 83.9% 85.7% Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Considerations Examined all aspects of transfer Outreach Messaging Admissions Articulation Transition services Enrollment planning Student success Report to be issued at May Regents’ meeting in Sacramento Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Findings and Recommendations Transfer Transfer Students Transfer Student Students Statewide Transfer Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Other Recent Transfer Updates Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) added completion of Associate Degrees for Transfer to the official list of Comprehensive Review factors July 1 Transcript Deadline August 1 Opening of Application IGETC for STEM Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Ongoing Transfer Initiatives ASSIST Next Generation cccconfer.org UC Transfer Admission Planner (UC TAP) UC Transfer Admission Guarantees CCC-UC Data Sharing Project Affordability: UC Blue & Gold Opportunity Plan Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

Questions Future questions about transfer: Shawn Brick Associate Director of Admissions, UCOP shawn.brick@ucop.edu 510.987.9872