Retention Specialist Transfer Center Soraya Sohrabi 2018-19

Why Do We Need This Position? 2478 Students with Transfer Goal 16% Undecided Majors 19% Freshman with 0 unit 27% Students with 1- 34 units Fall 2018 38% Continuing students

What Do We Need? To accurately identify transfer students To support students at each step they need to take from the beginning to the time they reach their transfer goal To identify their challenges for program and service development To support, sustain, and improve current services To be able to continue provide support to other programs such as Counseling, Promise, STEM, EOPS, ESO Adelante, CWA, etc.

The Impact of Having This Position Reaching out to 68% of transfer students wo are not part of any programs In addition to support the services provide at the Transfer Center, this position will help us to reach out and follow up with students to be aligned with the EMP objective of Completion and Success: The STEP program, a case management The impact of AB705 The emergence of Guided Pathway The increase in ADTs Close the gap between the application and the enrollment at a university Increase the retention and transfer rate Establish stronger connections with four-year universities and local/feeder high schools

Current Status We will not able to sustain the level of support for all Transfer students, and not able to follow up with students status In addition, within last two years, we lost support staff in the Transfer Center OAII (10 hours a week) Retention Specialist position that was funded by a grant High turn over of student assistants – no consistency and many restrictions