1. Julie Givans Voller, Ed.D. Maricopa Community Colleges
Academic Advising Articulation: What should transferring students know?
Julie Givans Voller, Ed.D. Maricopa Community Colleges
Sandra Voller, M.A. Arizona State University
3:30 – 4:30 Room 107
Room Setup
All breakout rooms are equipped with the following:
Theater style seating (i.e. no tables for the audience)
Podium
Wireless Microphone
Laptop
Clicker
Projector and screen
Water
Handouts
We are expecting 300 people at the Summit and have only four concurrent session rooms. Please plan to prepare about 70 handouts for your audience.
Support
Should you need support with technology during your session, please see me at the Summit Solutions table outside the Wassaja Ballroom or call my cell phone,

2. Preparing for the Handoff
We need to work together, think big picture, work across institutions
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3. State-wide Academic Advising Tools
Course Equivalency Guide
Shared Unique Number (SUN)
Articulation Task Forces (ATFs)
Disciplinary
Functional
Arizona has good systems in place for disciplinary articulation/transfer. There is support.
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4. State-wide Academic Advising Tools
ASU-Maricopa Program Pathways
NAU Transfer Academic Plans
UA Bridge
Research shows that students who transfer with an associate’s degree are more likely to persist and complete a bachelor’s degree at the university (CITATION?!)
Thus, these programs all strongly encourage the completion of an associate’s degree.
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5. What should students know?
If students understand the academic content, is that sufficient for them to be successful after they transfer?
What do you think?
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6. What should students know?
Is a curriculum transfer pathway all students need from an academic advisor?
To be clear – those things are needed. We are lucky in Arizona to have them. And now that we do, we are ready to push this conversation forward to the next level. AZ Transfer, SUN numbers, and Transfer Pathways are (important) tools that academic advisors use - but they are not what academic advising IS.
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7. Challenges of Transfer
Getting Ready
Getting In
Getting Through
All members of the team – CC advisors, University advisors, faculty, administrators, need to be communicating – on the same page regarding what students need to know in order to be successful. Share information, experiences, research.
ASK: What problems do transfer students face? Different colleges= Different cultures. Just like changing jobs – it’s a whole new world, even though it looks familiar.
Handel, 2013.
Handel, 2013
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8. How Advisors Help Accurate Information Resourceful Referral
Emotional Support
Exposure to Opportunities
Coaching
Wai-Ling Packard and Jeffers, Interviews with CC STEM majors intending to transfer. Research question 1: How do advising interactions positively influence the transfer process?. Research question 2: How do advising interactions inhibit transfer progress?
Connect students with high impact activities at CC and at the U like study abroad, internships, research – per NSSE 2009, transfer students are less likely to participate.
Wai-Ling Packard and Jeffers, 2013
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9. What Do Students Learn? Decision-making Informational Literacy
Navigating complex organizations
Resilience
Forethought…
(and much more)
Among other things…
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10. If students are not prepared -
Their momentum could be stopped in its tracks.
If they don’t get the information, knowledge, and skills they need – it could be “game over’.
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11. What should transferring students know?
Let’s get it down on paper!
What should transferring students know?
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12. Creating our Playbook…
Let’s pretend we are planning for academic advising at the Community College/University of Utopia
Let’s think about…
Tip of the hat to M. Lowenstein, 2011
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13. What do students from… Arizona community college(s),
Graduating with an associate’s degree,
Declares transfer intention one year or more before earning associate’s,
Transferring to NAU, ASU, or UofA…
Imagine this student population
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14. Need to… Know? Understand? Be Able to Do?
…As a result of academic advising.
In order to get ready, get in, but most ESPECIALLY to get THROUGH to a bachelor’s degree?
Let’s move and brainstorm - use your sticky notes to write your ideas and the circle stickers to support others’ ideas.
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15. What should new transfer students know?
Now let’s talk about it -
What should new transfer students know?
Similarities between Univ & CC – what do all agree on? Are there differences?
“Let’s expand on this one”
“This is interesting – tell us more about it”
“Can someone share more about this helps students transfer successfully?”
“How does knowing/understanding this support students get ready/get in/get through to earn a bachelor’s degree?”
“This suggestions has support from one institution type (CC or University), and not the other – let’s talk about that.”
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16. Follow up Questions
Are Arizona transfer students getting the support they need?
What if every student transferring in the state of Arizona had understood, knew, and could do the things identified?
What are the possibilities for collaboration?
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17. Students are the MVPs… and we are all winners!
That’s Von Miller in the picture
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18. References
Handel, S. J. (2013). Transfer as academic gauntlet: The student perspective. College Board Advocacy & Policy Center. Downloaded from:
Wai-Ling Packard, B. & Jeffers, K. C. (2013). Advising and progress in the community college STEM pathway. NACADA Journal 33(2)
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